23-10-2018, 10:19 PM
what a race! I like Kyalami and especially with this car / track combo. This helped my motivation for a few extra training / setup laps and i felt rather confident about speed and control aiming for at least a top 1o position.
I made a few comparisons with full distance fuel and half and identified almost a second faster laps with lower fuel This together with the long race distance and associated risk of damaging something was enough reason to go for a 1 stop strategy.
Qualy turned out ok but it took me all 30 minutes to get back to the speed, think i was 6th or 7th.
Careful start into the race and positive surprise about total lack of stupid maneuvers and daredevilism. Survived lap 1 and could maintain position. I then became victim of the lap 15 issue (it was me Ed, not Bryan ) Cookie saw a space to lap Nikos where there was non and lost it after making contact. The car was spinning from left to right and then back to the left. Trying to avoid a collision i was slowing down to find a path through the moving objects and had to turn left wen Cookie bounced back fro the other side. Unfortunately this surprised Ed who came wit high speed from behind and I took the space away he was trying to get through. We made contact and I crashed to the right and he to the left. As it was on the long straight behind the hill I could not immedieately see whether someone else was approaching and was hesitant to get right back onto the track. I then drove to the other side of the track where i could not find the reverse gear as my wheel was upside down. The whole thing took something like 20 seconds until i was back accelerating and I was worrying about my top 10 goal. However the damage was not too bad and I could wait with the stop until the planned moment. Lost 2-3 kmh in top speed and did not make too many mistakes apart from a spin when closing in on the surprisingly slow Gorka (i knew he must have had a bad repair). So i finished in 9th place which I am still very happy about.
All in all I think this was a fantastic race with good preparation, great turn out on raceday and mostly clean driving. I am looking forward to the rest of the season. Money and time is invested well here
I made a few comparisons with full distance fuel and half and identified almost a second faster laps with lower fuel This together with the long race distance and associated risk of damaging something was enough reason to go for a 1 stop strategy.
Qualy turned out ok but it took me all 30 minutes to get back to the speed, think i was 6th or 7th.
Careful start into the race and positive surprise about total lack of stupid maneuvers and daredevilism. Survived lap 1 and could maintain position. I then became victim of the lap 15 issue (it was me Ed, not Bryan ) Cookie saw a space to lap Nikos where there was non and lost it after making contact. The car was spinning from left to right and then back to the left. Trying to avoid a collision i was slowing down to find a path through the moving objects and had to turn left wen Cookie bounced back fro the other side. Unfortunately this surprised Ed who came wit high speed from behind and I took the space away he was trying to get through. We made contact and I crashed to the right and he to the left. As it was on the long straight behind the hill I could not immedieately see whether someone else was approaching and was hesitant to get right back onto the track. I then drove to the other side of the track where i could not find the reverse gear as my wheel was upside down. The whole thing took something like 20 seconds until i was back accelerating and I was worrying about my top 10 goal. However the damage was not too bad and I could wait with the stop until the planned moment. Lost 2-3 kmh in top speed and did not make too many mistakes apart from a spin when closing in on the surprisingly slow Gorka (i knew he must have had a bad repair). So i finished in 9th place which I am still very happy about.
All in all I think this was a fantastic race with good preparation, great turn out on raceday and mostly clean driving. I am looking forward to the rest of the season. Money and time is invested well here
Do you even lift?