09-10-2016, 10:53 PM
Practice
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I was still doing setup changes in my race setup. The final adjustment was the key for a better tire handling. The tire in worst condition at the end of the race was the right front which was at a 75% state, a lot better than I expected.
Qualy
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I was pushing hard for my third timing lap, I was a bit too oversteery at the 3 slowest corners. I though that was going to be a bad lap and suddenly I saw I lapped a 1:25.9
I went for a fresh set of tires and tried that same technique and I gained an extra 2 tenths.
Decided to do no more attempts and save my energies for the race.
Race
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Had a good reaction time but dropped clutch a little too fast and lost all revs. That costed me to enter turn 1 side to side with David. By turn 2, being on the inside line I tried to give him enough space. Don't know if it was enough but we touched, he spun and I lost my speed getting out of turn 3 in 9th place (sorry about that).
I then pushed hard lap after lap and started overtaking cars until getting 3 seconds behind Rikard who was on 3rd place. Suddenly he was no longer there. It was DjC 6 seconds ahead leading the race.
I kept pushing as hard as I could just scratching a few tenths lap after lap.
By lap 25, even though the rear tires were in better condition than the front, the car started to be a bit oversteery at acceleration. I had to be very carefull with it mainly at turn 3 and at the penultimate corner as the tail wanted to jump without a warning.
10 laps to the end I was very close to DjC and at lap 8 he made some kind of mistake braking for the final corner which helped me getting behind his slipstream and overtaking him to take the final victory.
Very sweaty race and very rewarding too.... at least this race Rikard has given some options we won't have in the coming racers.
I consider this my best race in my simracing years, not because of the win, but because I've been able to do 40 qualy laps without a mistake, which feels superb.
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I was still doing setup changes in my race setup. The final adjustment was the key for a better tire handling. The tire in worst condition at the end of the race was the right front which was at a 75% state, a lot better than I expected.
Qualy
-------
I was pushing hard for my third timing lap, I was a bit too oversteery at the 3 slowest corners. I though that was going to be a bad lap and suddenly I saw I lapped a 1:25.9
I went for a fresh set of tires and tried that same technique and I gained an extra 2 tenths.
Decided to do no more attempts and save my energies for the race.
Race
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Had a good reaction time but dropped clutch a little too fast and lost all revs. That costed me to enter turn 1 side to side with David. By turn 2, being on the inside line I tried to give him enough space. Don't know if it was enough but we touched, he spun and I lost my speed getting out of turn 3 in 9th place (sorry about that).
I then pushed hard lap after lap and started overtaking cars until getting 3 seconds behind Rikard who was on 3rd place. Suddenly he was no longer there. It was DjC 6 seconds ahead leading the race.
I kept pushing as hard as I could just scratching a few tenths lap after lap.
By lap 25, even though the rear tires were in better condition than the front, the car started to be a bit oversteery at acceleration. I had to be very carefull with it mainly at turn 3 and at the penultimate corner as the tail wanted to jump without a warning.
10 laps to the end I was very close to DjC and at lap 8 he made some kind of mistake braking for the final corner which helped me getting behind his slipstream and overtaking him to take the final victory.
Very sweaty race and very rewarding too.... at least this race Rikard has given some options we won't have in the coming racers.
I consider this my best race in my simracing years, not because of the win, but because I've been able to do 40 qualy laps without a mistake, which feels superb.
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