16-04-2018, 05:28 PM
Practice:
I made half a million practice laps during Easter holidays, never getting neither pace or consistency or confidence or a decent setup, always reverting to the default which hopefully was not so bad.
Qualy:
I just tried to put a clean fast lap, braking 20 meters earlier, which worked well and posted a splendid time good enough for 7th.
Race 1:
I decided to do the same as in practice and always brake much earlier. During lap 1 at at the hairpin I managed to stop to avoid the people who had spun, I slowly pushed somebody to get him pointing in the right direction and create way for me, after that when I thought I had escaped and was in straight line re-accelerating, somebody hit me coming from the left, which I can't imagine how it is even possible. The car was bent but mostly drive-able, I drove until the pit window and repair all damage. After that I tried to keep it clean and get it to the finish, I am pretty sure there was nothing clean about it but not only did I got to the end I also managed a splendid top 20.
Race 2:
About the same as race one except on this one all the bends were done by myself and I had to retire with 2 laps to go when the car was getting to dangerous to drive and others were coming to lap me.
So all in all: it could have gone much worse
I made half a million practice laps during Easter holidays, never getting neither pace or consistency or confidence or a decent setup, always reverting to the default which hopefully was not so bad.
Qualy:
I just tried to put a clean fast lap, braking 20 meters earlier, which worked well and posted a splendid time good enough for 7th.
Race 1:
I decided to do the same as in practice and always brake much earlier. During lap 1 at at the hairpin I managed to stop to avoid the people who had spun, I slowly pushed somebody to get him pointing in the right direction and create way for me, after that when I thought I had escaped and was in straight line re-accelerating, somebody hit me coming from the left, which I can't imagine how it is even possible. The car was bent but mostly drive-able, I drove until the pit window and repair all damage. After that I tried to keep it clean and get it to the finish, I am pretty sure there was nothing clean about it but not only did I got to the end I also managed a splendid top 20.
Race 2:
About the same as race one except on this one all the bends were done by myself and I had to retire with 2 laps to go when the car was getting to dangerous to drive and others were coming to lap me.
So all in all: it could have gone much worse