30-09-2013, 08:29 AM
Well, definetly this track suits my driving, it happened with the F2s and now with the F1s.
Qualifying
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Looking for a front row position just couldn't beat Marcel's time by a little, anyway second was good as I knew I had a good racing pace.
Race1
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Struggling for grip in the right lane I lost second position to David. As things settled down I pushed hard and was able to catch both David and Marcel overtaking them at main straight. Then started pushing hard to try to open a gap to them.
It was around lap 11, I had a 2 second gap to Marcel. Aproaching turn 5 for a tenth of a second my eyes went to the changing HUD display (pitstop was being auto-requested) and also to a recently wrecked yellow car ahead. That unnecesary distraction caused me to miss the braking line, going through the greener right side and kissing the right side of the curve causing a sping and a stalled engine. That meant for a lot of time lost, seing cars passing by in a desperation.
Quickly went to do my pitstop (which I had practiced the entry to the milimiter to minimize time lost there), which took 47 seconds. Don't know even if I overtook you there David C, must check replay, as I didn't knew in which position I was at that moment and who I had around ahead/behind.
After the pitstop I pushed to my max, doing qualyfing lap after qualyfing lap trying to catch DjC. Feeling big sweat drops falling through my face in such a physical efort wich finally didn't pay off.
At least managed a third place and a podium finish.
Race 2
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Things went quite clean through turn 1. Then started picking up places (wierd thing about thanos, as in my driving viewpoint I did brake enough and didn't hit him, but his car suddenly jumped to the right as if I had pushed him in his "game"). At about lap 11 I was already in second place at 3.x sec behind Bart. We both went at the same time to the pits. Pitstop took 48 seconds and I was surprised when I saw Bart was still stopped as I passed on his side, leaving the pits in a virtual first place.
As everyone had pitted two laps later I was already in first place with a 8 sec gap to Bart so I was able to drive more comfortably to the end and win the race (At last the victory came, hope it will not be the only one of the season).
Here's a video of the first laps of race 2 from my viewpoint.
[YOUTUBE]70qvMvPnktY[/YOUTUBE]
Paul, aren't we using the same bonuses we used at the F2 league? I mean bonuses as "Leading the race for a lap", "Leading the most laps", "Fastest lap of the race", and so on...
Qualifying
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Looking for a front row position just couldn't beat Marcel's time by a little, anyway second was good as I knew I had a good racing pace.
Race1
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Struggling for grip in the right lane I lost second position to David. As things settled down I pushed hard and was able to catch both David and Marcel overtaking them at main straight. Then started pushing hard to try to open a gap to them.
It was around lap 11, I had a 2 second gap to Marcel. Aproaching turn 5 for a tenth of a second my eyes went to the changing HUD display (pitstop was being auto-requested) and also to a recently wrecked yellow car ahead. That unnecesary distraction caused me to miss the braking line, going through the greener right side and kissing the right side of the curve causing a sping and a stalled engine. That meant for a lot of time lost, seing cars passing by in a desperation.
Quickly went to do my pitstop (which I had practiced the entry to the milimiter to minimize time lost there), which took 47 seconds. Don't know even if I overtook you there David C, must check replay, as I didn't knew in which position I was at that moment and who I had around ahead/behind.
After the pitstop I pushed to my max, doing qualyfing lap after qualyfing lap trying to catch DjC. Feeling big sweat drops falling through my face in such a physical efort wich finally didn't pay off.
At least managed a third place and a podium finish.
Race 2
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Things went quite clean through turn 1. Then started picking up places (wierd thing about thanos, as in my driving viewpoint I did brake enough and didn't hit him, but his car suddenly jumped to the right as if I had pushed him in his "game"). At about lap 11 I was already in second place at 3.x sec behind Bart. We both went at the same time to the pits. Pitstop took 48 seconds and I was surprised when I saw Bart was still stopped as I passed on his side, leaving the pits in a virtual first place.
As everyone had pitted two laps later I was already in first place with a 8 sec gap to Bart so I was able to drive more comfortably to the end and win the race (At last the victory came, hope it will not be the only one of the season).
Here's a video of the first laps of race 2 from my viewpoint.
[YOUTUBE]70qvMvPnktY[/YOUTUBE]
Paul, aren't we using the same bonuses we used at the F2 league? I mean bonuses as "Leading the race for a lap", "Leading the most laps", "Fastest lap of the race", and so on...
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