20-12-2021, 06:54 PM
There seem to be a severe lack of eye-witness reports to this prestigous race- So lets start here.
Training: Training for Nords always is a committment on its own as you have to invest quite some time into finding out whether your setup changes have any meaningful effect on the laptime achievable. And bringing in a hotlap without accident or big mistakes feels like winning the lottery. Still looking forward to the hotlap event now that we achieved some stability in the driving adter this event.
Q: quite pleased with how it went. Changed settings 15 minutes before Q and improved PB two times resulting in P3. Quite pleased with this result as I was also hoping that I could stay out of trouble in the race (a false hope as it turned out)
R: I totally blew the start as must have been half on the grippy side and half not. Had to lift an dang - went from P3 straight to P8 in turn one. That was a bad omen. I had no trouble following the pace and was eager to regain some positions soon but then the inevitable happened. John was slowing down at Kallenhard in a spot where I was not expecting this which made me somehow loose control in the attempt to not run into him. I spun. The but had only little damage. The problem was that i was behind a corner and could not see very far. I could have waited until everyone went past but that was asking too much. I went back on the track after checking that no one was in sight and accelerated at the left side of the track. Not fast enough as there I heard a car approaching fast from behind a push and then wheels passing me followed by what was left from Stuarts Gulf themed car. Sorry Stuart, I feel bad for having ruined your race. I hope that there was enough space to the right to get by. I have not seen the replay yet but thats how i memorized the event. Surprisingly my car was still in (bad) driving condition and I could make it to the pits loosing quite some time to then spend a 159 sec pitstop for needed repairs. From then on it was safe driving and trying use the 4 remaining laps to reconnect with the field and maybe steel some points. This worked out to a certain extend and I could finish in P11.
Training: Training for Nords always is a committment on its own as you have to invest quite some time into finding out whether your setup changes have any meaningful effect on the laptime achievable. And bringing in a hotlap without accident or big mistakes feels like winning the lottery. Still looking forward to the hotlap event now that we achieved some stability in the driving adter this event.
Q: quite pleased with how it went. Changed settings 15 minutes before Q and improved PB two times resulting in P3. Quite pleased with this result as I was also hoping that I could stay out of trouble in the race (a false hope as it turned out)
R: I totally blew the start as must have been half on the grippy side and half not. Had to lift an dang - went from P3 straight to P8 in turn one. That was a bad omen. I had no trouble following the pace and was eager to regain some positions soon but then the inevitable happened. John was slowing down at Kallenhard in a spot where I was not expecting this which made me somehow loose control in the attempt to not run into him. I spun. The but had only little damage. The problem was that i was behind a corner and could not see very far. I could have waited until everyone went past but that was asking too much. I went back on the track after checking that no one was in sight and accelerated at the left side of the track. Not fast enough as there I heard a car approaching fast from behind a push and then wheels passing me followed by what was left from Stuarts Gulf themed car. Sorry Stuart, I feel bad for having ruined your race. I hope that there was enough space to the right to get by. I have not seen the replay yet but thats how i memorized the event. Surprisingly my car was still in (bad) driving condition and I could make it to the pits loosing quite some time to then spend a 159 sec pitstop for needed repairs. From then on it was safe driving and trying use the 4 remaining laps to reconnect with the field and maybe steel some points. This worked out to a certain extend and I could finish in P11.
Do you even lift?