16-09-2013, 10:33 AM
Qualy
Went out early so I had a clear track , set my best time pretty quickly , went out a couple of more times to see if I could pick up a tow and get a better time, but I couldn’t find anyone , I always seemed to pick a clear track . qualified 5th which I was happy with .
Race 1
Got a good start , I went to the outside to draft Gorka on the long run to turn 1 , he started to move left and was opening the door for me when suddenly all hell broke loose , I saw a car go up to my left so I stayed as far right as I could and suddenly it was just me and Marcel , I was matching Marcel for a while but I decided to run my own race as I knew I had a chance of good points if I wasn’t silly , after that everything went smoothly , I could monitor the gap to the guy behind and kept it to around 20 secs , I got 2nd place , great start for Team Davit .
Race 2
I thought go for a slow start and stay out of trouble , started slow pulled over to the far right , saw DJs car go tumbling past me and was just congratulating myself on staying out of trouble when Marcel hit me , This pushed me round and into barrier , got going again but car was damaged and kept trying to swap ends , once I got used to the handling I found I could still lap quickly so decided to carry on , I worked my way up from last to 8th before my pitstop and could see a gaggle of traffic ahead so I decided to pit and see if I could get places by coming out on a clear track , I called for my pit crew as I entered the first Lesmo , exiting the second Lesmo I saw Cosimo starting to loose it , he was on the left and starting to spin to the right , so I went left , sods law he spun and came back to the left and wiped my front wheel off , limped to the pits for repairs , got a 308sec pitstop , whilst sat there waiting for the clock to run down I got hit hard by 2 cars racing side by side in the pitlane and mayhem broke out around me , got hit again as one of these cars then drove the wrong way up the pitlane and hit someone else , unbeknown to me this had damaged my car again and wasn’t evident until I tried to leave the pits , the car just went where it wanted , I shot across the track but fortunately no one was on the main straight , so I retired . That was a crazy way to get knocked out of a race , we need to look at pitlane discipline .
Went out early so I had a clear track , set my best time pretty quickly , went out a couple of more times to see if I could pick up a tow and get a better time, but I couldn’t find anyone , I always seemed to pick a clear track . qualified 5th which I was happy with .
Race 1
Got a good start , I went to the outside to draft Gorka on the long run to turn 1 , he started to move left and was opening the door for me when suddenly all hell broke loose , I saw a car go up to my left so I stayed as far right as I could and suddenly it was just me and Marcel , I was matching Marcel for a while but I decided to run my own race as I knew I had a chance of good points if I wasn’t silly , after that everything went smoothly , I could monitor the gap to the guy behind and kept it to around 20 secs , I got 2nd place , great start for Team Davit .
Race 2
I thought go for a slow start and stay out of trouble , started slow pulled over to the far right , saw DJs car go tumbling past me and was just congratulating myself on staying out of trouble when Marcel hit me , This pushed me round and into barrier , got going again but car was damaged and kept trying to swap ends , once I got used to the handling I found I could still lap quickly so decided to carry on , I worked my way up from last to 8th before my pitstop and could see a gaggle of traffic ahead so I decided to pit and see if I could get places by coming out on a clear track , I called for my pit crew as I entered the first Lesmo , exiting the second Lesmo I saw Cosimo starting to loose it , he was on the left and starting to spin to the right , so I went left , sods law he spun and came back to the left and wiped my front wheel off , limped to the pits for repairs , got a 308sec pitstop , whilst sat there waiting for the clock to run down I got hit hard by 2 cars racing side by side in the pitlane and mayhem broke out around me , got hit again as one of these cars then drove the wrong way up the pitlane and hit someone else , unbeknown to me this had damaged my car again and wasn’t evident until I tried to leave the pits , the car just went where it wanted , I shot across the track but fortunately no one was on the main straight , so I retired . That was a crazy way to get knocked out of a race , we need to look at pitlane discipline .
Understeer - is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it
Oversteer - is when you hit the wall with the back of the car
Horsepower - is how fast you hit the wall
Torque - is how far you move the wall when you hit it