04-11-2018, 10:39 PM
That was indeed a challenge, and even after coming to a halt with the engine switching off after encountering a car across the track, I managed to keep second place. Kristijan later appeared to have heavy damage and I took the lead. This was looking very promising. Daniel Tani was behind me and I was managing the gap, but he started to push as my tyres seemed to grip less and eventually caught and passed me when I outbraked myself defending into T1.
Bryan, from my viewpoint I saw you being given the blue flag, waited for you to move off line which you seemed to do but after I put my foot down you moved back onto it so we collided. Hope it didn't seem I was trying to ram, but I knew Daniel was chasing me down.
Tobias, I was lapping you and was hard on the brakes and locked up, sorry.
I pitted on lap 22 to take on fuel and tyres, leaving the damage unrepaired but on the pit exit the phantom brick wall appeared, totally destroying my car. This happened to me on this track only once during practice - unlucky for it to happen in the race, but shows how broken the track is and for this reason I don't think it was fair. An unrealistically bumpy surface and walls which rip half your car off are challenging for everyone, but to be taken out by an unpredictable invisible solid object appearing on track (which most of the time is benign) feels like I was robbed.
Bryan, from my viewpoint I saw you being given the blue flag, waited for you to move off line which you seemed to do but after I put my foot down you moved back onto it so we collided. Hope it didn't seem I was trying to ram, but I knew Daniel was chasing me down.
Tobias, I was lapping you and was hard on the brakes and locked up, sorry.
I pitted on lap 22 to take on fuel and tyres, leaving the damage unrepaired but on the pit exit the phantom brick wall appeared, totally destroying my car. This happened to me on this track only once during practice - unlucky for it to happen in the race, but shows how broken the track is and for this reason I don't think it was fair. An unrealistically bumpy surface and walls which rip half your car off are challenging for everyone, but to be taken out by an unpredictable invisible solid object appearing on track (which most of the time is benign) feels like I was robbed.