14-04-2013, 11:43 PM
What a race!
I love the Nordschleife and did alot of laps in the last year (on a different mod though). Every corner is burnt in my brain and i had high expectations for this race therefore.
Practice:
I couldnt practice that much last week because i had to work a lot but i already knew the track, so no prob.
Race day & strategy:
I slept very well the night before and was in a good condition for the race. My strategy was to not go too fast (~10 sec slower than fastest laps) to not risk an accident.
Quali:
8:38 -> 7th pos. Never did a faster lap before.
Race:
Usually i start very slow, but this time i tried to keep my position because overtaking is very difficult at Nordschleife. I didn't lose a position at start, everybody was very carefully.
I tried to follow Bryan even knowing he is much faster but couldnt, of course. But i did better than i expected. Giorgio was behind me and hunting me! We did very fast lap times and although i knew that everything i do is against my strategy i had to fight him. I did a slight mistake, i was hunting Giorgio and i thought what am i doing? This is way too fast! We fighted for 3 laps and Giorgio slowed down telling me i should overtake. I didnt wanted to overtake first because hunting is easier than being hunted. Probably Giorgio thought the same that we are way too fast
I overtook, Giorgio was going slower.
Did the planed pitstop, no problems.
After lap 6 everything got very strange. I didn't know anymore exactly what i was doing, still was driving fast but more subconsciously.
It felt like being on (an unknown) drug. But still everything was ok. I was in 5th place, Jason 40 sec in front, Everon 40 sec behind. I thought keeping that position is good enough. No risk.
But then after 70min racetime windows switched to desktop! I jumped on the brake. Tried to get back to rfactor2 but couldn't! I didn't try too much because my car could have been on the middle of the track and i killed the rfactor2 task. Race over
But still, this race was so awesome!!
I love the Nordschleife and did alot of laps in the last year (on a different mod though). Every corner is burnt in my brain and i had high expectations for this race therefore.
Practice:
I couldnt practice that much last week because i had to work a lot but i already knew the track, so no prob.
Race day & strategy:
I slept very well the night before and was in a good condition for the race. My strategy was to not go too fast (~10 sec slower than fastest laps) to not risk an accident.
Quali:
8:38 -> 7th pos. Never did a faster lap before.
Race:
Usually i start very slow, but this time i tried to keep my position because overtaking is very difficult at Nordschleife. I didn't lose a position at start, everybody was very carefully.
I tried to follow Bryan even knowing he is much faster but couldnt, of course. But i did better than i expected. Giorgio was behind me and hunting me! We did very fast lap times and although i knew that everything i do is against my strategy i had to fight him. I did a slight mistake, i was hunting Giorgio and i thought what am i doing? This is way too fast! We fighted for 3 laps and Giorgio slowed down telling me i should overtake. I didnt wanted to overtake first because hunting is easier than being hunted. Probably Giorgio thought the same that we are way too fast
I overtook, Giorgio was going slower.
Did the planed pitstop, no problems.
After lap 6 everything got very strange. I didn't know anymore exactly what i was doing, still was driving fast but more subconsciously.
It felt like being on (an unknown) drug. But still everything was ok. I was in 5th place, Jason 40 sec in front, Everon 40 sec behind. I thought keeping that position is good enough. No risk.
But then after 70min racetime windows switched to desktop! I jumped on the brake. Tried to get back to rfactor2 but couldn't! I didn't try too much because my car could have been on the middle of the track and i killed the rfactor2 task. Race over
But still, this race was so awesome!!