22-07-2013, 09:11 AM
My report.
I had planned this race in a single way, being in front of DjC so I could take back the second place in the championship. For the first time I decided to drive the winged spark, as driving the Eve I found it imposible to have a balanced car and drive below 2:13s. With the winged spark I managed to easily drive the 2:12s.
Qualy
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I managed to get a 2:12.3 which I found to be enough to be in 4th place and in front of David.
One thing I want to point out that I didn't like was seing KK at the final minutes of the session come out of the pits between me and Thanos (who was some seconds ahead of me in a personal qualifying lap) and see him fighting thanos in the brakings. You shouldn't do that in your out lap to a car who is in his hot lap.
Race 1
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A difficult time in the first two curves trying to find a clean way between Marcel and KK fighting for position and also suffering from poor fps. I had to take turn 2 through the grass as in the danger of hitting them. This caused Bart and DjC to overtake me. This poor fps at the first lap caused me to have late reactions to the car's rear waving at some turns wich caused the rear wheels to go to a sudden overheat and have me really struggling this first stint with an oversteery car, mainly in the brakings. I came to my 49sec pitstop at turn 5. As I got cooler tires again I managed to build my driving pace and have the car nice balanced till the end. At the moment I came to the pits a was 1.8 sec behind David and after his pitstop we came just behind me.
I managed to pull 2-3 tenths per lap away from him and finally finished the race in third place.
Race 2
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Clean start and keeping 3rd position and hoping David had to care more for his mirrors and Bryan attacking than me.
It was about lap 2 or three 3 when at the final turn I saw Marcel and Rikard have a little contact enough to get both stuck. I managed to avoid them and seeing myself in first position I started pushing harder so I could get a big gap before my pitstop came. Pitstop took again 49 seconds and managed to get away cleanly and drive leading the race till the end. Coming to a win that tasted really good.
Race 3
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Starting from the back of the grid I decided to avoid all kind of trouble, accelerating slowly and avoiding both accidents that took in the midfield. I was relieved to have survived it but that didn't last that long. After the first heavy braking hairping I was behind Nikos and was preparing the attack for the next braking when I wrongly meassured his driving line and gave him a push from behind, my fault, sorry Nikos. After that incident I found my both left suspensions to be damaged and steering wheel veered 30ยบ to the left. I went to the pits and decided not to repair the car as I preffered losing 4 seconds per lap than being 150sec in the pits. The remining 9 laps were a sweaty fight with the car trying to bring it home and catch at least a point as I did finishing in 10th place.
I had planned this race in a single way, being in front of DjC so I could take back the second place in the championship. For the first time I decided to drive the winged spark, as driving the Eve I found it imposible to have a balanced car and drive below 2:13s. With the winged spark I managed to easily drive the 2:12s.
Qualy
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I managed to get a 2:12.3 which I found to be enough to be in 4th place and in front of David.
One thing I want to point out that I didn't like was seing KK at the final minutes of the session come out of the pits between me and Thanos (who was some seconds ahead of me in a personal qualifying lap) and see him fighting thanos in the brakings. You shouldn't do that in your out lap to a car who is in his hot lap.
Race 1
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A difficult time in the first two curves trying to find a clean way between Marcel and KK fighting for position and also suffering from poor fps. I had to take turn 2 through the grass as in the danger of hitting them. This caused Bart and DjC to overtake me. This poor fps at the first lap caused me to have late reactions to the car's rear waving at some turns wich caused the rear wheels to go to a sudden overheat and have me really struggling this first stint with an oversteery car, mainly in the brakings. I came to my 49sec pitstop at turn 5. As I got cooler tires again I managed to build my driving pace and have the car nice balanced till the end. At the moment I came to the pits a was 1.8 sec behind David and after his pitstop we came just behind me.
I managed to pull 2-3 tenths per lap away from him and finally finished the race in third place.
Race 2
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Clean start and keeping 3rd position and hoping David had to care more for his mirrors and Bryan attacking than me.
It was about lap 2 or three 3 when at the final turn I saw Marcel and Rikard have a little contact enough to get both stuck. I managed to avoid them and seeing myself in first position I started pushing harder so I could get a big gap before my pitstop came. Pitstop took again 49 seconds and managed to get away cleanly and drive leading the race till the end. Coming to a win that tasted really good.
Race 3
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Starting from the back of the grid I decided to avoid all kind of trouble, accelerating slowly and avoiding both accidents that took in the midfield. I was relieved to have survived it but that didn't last that long. After the first heavy braking hairping I was behind Nikos and was preparing the attack for the next braking when I wrongly meassured his driving line and gave him a push from behind, my fault, sorry Nikos. After that incident I found my both left suspensions to be damaged and steering wheel veered 30ยบ to the left. I went to the pits and decided not to repair the car as I preffered losing 4 seconds per lap than being 150sec in the pits. The remining 9 laps were a sweaty fight with the car trying to bring it home and catch at least a point as I did finishing in 10th place.
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