03-06-2013, 06:36 PM
Qualifying:
I did a 1.37,3 and I was bitterly dissapointed with it. In practice I did a 1.36,750 on Friday and a 1.36,818 on Saturday, but I couldn't get a time in the 1.36 in qually. So I ended 8 on the grid. If I managed to hit my 1.36,8 I would have been on 6th place or 5th place.
Race 1:
Was a great race for me. Start was normal, kept my line and was still 8 after first lap. I had nobody behind me at that stage. But couldn’t really get the pace I wanted with a lot of fights in front of me. So I waited a couple of laps before pitting, because I didn’t want to get in traffic with all the meganes. Bryan who was about 2-3sec in front of me, pitted at the same time as me on lap 4. He was very slow entering the pits and I was tailgating him into the pits. My pitstop was a little faster than his and came out in front of him. But then my mini heart-attack.. I came out of the pits, Marcel had traffic with the meganes and lost ground to the lead-runners. I just came out of the pits when he was going round turn 2.
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I was thinking of just taking the inside line of the next corner, but Marcel was a bit braver then I thought and committed to the corner. It was really close!
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Probably the best thing that he passed me quickly, otherwise I would have been looking constantly in my mirrors for the next couple of laps.
Then just went round at my own pace, didn’t push to hard, because I am working towards making less mistakes and consistency and in the end it paid off, because I ended in 4th, wich is by far my best result ever.
Race 2:
Had a poor start, lost about 2 places. I pitted early again to try to overtake Jason which I was stuck behind. Had a good pitstop and after the pitstop just tried to go around as smoothly as possible. But Dawave was slowly catching me and I was hurting my tires with lot of lockups and oversteer. Last 2 laps I lost my concentration and I was really struggling with my car couldn’t get a grip anymore. At this point Dawave is about 1sec behind me and last lap saw Neela in the long corner on the back straight and completely lost my focus on the corner and ran wide into the gravel and lost my 4th place to Dawave. But still a good finish.
Race 3:
Had a good enough start and there was mayhem in the first corner, lots of people in the gravel and spinning around and unfortunately a megane took my right suspension out. So I came immediately into the pits for a 61sec pitstop. Still came out in front of leaders and I was pushing really hard to catch everybody. Managed to average a time of 1.37,8’s and around lap 6 or 7, somebody left the race and fused with an megane and we both ended up hitting the wall. Both my front tires were gone. Tried to get out of the gravel trap but just blew my engine up. Didn’t want to leave the session because it might cause some lag I just stayed in the last corner. Hopefully it didn’t ruin anyone’s race.
I had a great time racing yesterday and thank you everybody for the clean racing! And thank you to the admins and moderators of SR4l for a fantastic evening racing!
King regards,
Thomas Vandenberghe
I did a 1.37,3 and I was bitterly dissapointed with it. In practice I did a 1.36,750 on Friday and a 1.36,818 on Saturday, but I couldn't get a time in the 1.36 in qually. So I ended 8 on the grid. If I managed to hit my 1.36,8 I would have been on 6th place or 5th place.
Race 1:
Was a great race for me. Start was normal, kept my line and was still 8 after first lap. I had nobody behind me at that stage. But couldn’t really get the pace I wanted with a lot of fights in front of me. So I waited a couple of laps before pitting, because I didn’t want to get in traffic with all the meganes. Bryan who was about 2-3sec in front of me, pitted at the same time as me on lap 4. He was very slow entering the pits and I was tailgating him into the pits. My pitstop was a little faster than his and came out in front of him. But then my mini heart-attack.. I came out of the pits, Marcel had traffic with the meganes and lost ground to the lead-runners. I just came out of the pits when he was going round turn 2.
I was thinking of just taking the inside line of the next corner, but Marcel was a bit braver then I thought and committed to the corner. It was really close!
Probably the best thing that he passed me quickly, otherwise I would have been looking constantly in my mirrors for the next couple of laps.
Then just went round at my own pace, didn’t push to hard, because I am working towards making less mistakes and consistency and in the end it paid off, because I ended in 4th, wich is by far my best result ever.
Race 2:
Had a poor start, lost about 2 places. I pitted early again to try to overtake Jason which I was stuck behind. Had a good pitstop and after the pitstop just tried to go around as smoothly as possible. But Dawave was slowly catching me and I was hurting my tires with lot of lockups and oversteer. Last 2 laps I lost my concentration and I was really struggling with my car couldn’t get a grip anymore. At this point Dawave is about 1sec behind me and last lap saw Neela in the long corner on the back straight and completely lost my focus on the corner and ran wide into the gravel and lost my 4th place to Dawave. But still a good finish.
Race 3:
Had a good enough start and there was mayhem in the first corner, lots of people in the gravel and spinning around and unfortunately a megane took my right suspension out. So I came immediately into the pits for a 61sec pitstop. Still came out in front of leaders and I was pushing really hard to catch everybody. Managed to average a time of 1.37,8’s and around lap 6 or 7, somebody left the race and fused with an megane and we both ended up hitting the wall. Both my front tires were gone. Tried to get out of the gravel trap but just blew my engine up. Didn’t want to leave the session because it might cause some lag I just stayed in the last corner. Hopefully it didn’t ruin anyone’s race.
I had a great time racing yesterday and thank you everybody for the clean racing! And thank you to the admins and moderators of SR4l for a fantastic evening racing!
King regards,
Thomas Vandenberghe