SR4L Fun Event Rnd 5 Sebring

[Lecram]

Not my kind of car but most of you know that I suppose. I'm so curious to what will happen when ISI releases full contact patch, I think even these will be a lot better to drive.

Anyway, in practice I thought I had a good chance of diving under 35 as I did a 35.2 with some mistakes. In qualify however, I couldn't get it together so I was stuck in 2nd place after a great lap by Mickael. I wasn't worried about it because I knew I would start on the grippy raceline, theres almost no way of heading first into turn 1 if you start from the dirty left side of the track. More about this subject later this reply...

So I got the lead as I'd expected. I drove carefully with Mickael on my tail for about 8 laps but at lap 9, I braked a bit too late for turn 2, got it back together but Mickael smelled blood and passed me. Not entirely though as he cutted across to line up for turn 4 too early, ran over my front wing and we both spun. We got on our way again, in same position as before as I did not feel like I did something wrong. But damage was done, my tires were shot and a couple of turns later Mickael passed me again, I saw it too late and we touched but no biggie this time.
So I tip-toed to the pits, did a 10 second stop and got on my way again. I don't recall much of the remaining laps, Gorka was getting closer, I ran wide for the final turn, probably lost focus way before that. I tried to recover but while doing so, I hit Gorka who tried to pass and I rolled over a couple of times. I decided to quit, probably had severe damage now and I didn't feel like wrecking more peoples races. Still had a good feeling about those first laps, could have easily gone the other way if not for the contact.

Race 2 I started behind Gorka, who had to stop for the pile up in front and I was just too late braking, I hit him and got damage.
Drove around the rest of the carnage and the second pile up at the hairpin and found myself 2 or 3 seconds behind Mickael after a couple of laps. My tires went fast, because of the damage probably and so I decided to pit early, after 6 laps racing. I almost missed pit entry, hit the wall and got more damage and so a 36 second stop was the result. So no good result today I thought but as I was driving very carefully, I kept gaining spots till I was in fourth place behind Yerke. I closed in on him but while doing so I felt the car sliding more and more so I backed off. Still fourth after an endless stop, not too shabby.

Fun event but I was happy to drive the Spark F2 again after the raceservers came back online.

So back to the start positions. I noticed at Palm Beach there is the same problem. Getting pole is a disadvantage if you have to start from the dirty side. I will deal with it as everyone has to if it's not going to change but I politely ask Bryan and Paul to take a look at that for the upcoming events.

Cheers,