12-01-2014, 11:24 PM
Getting the worst of reversed races sinces the SR4L was created. :-\
Qualy
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My best offline laptime preparing my setup was a 21.9 so I was no too confident of getting a good result as Rikard, Marcel and David had fastest laptimes. But online things were different and I felt grip to be quite good. That lead for a 21.5 which brought me to 2nd place. It could have been a 2 tenths faster but found traffic and could not improve laptime. Rikard 21.0 was way too far so I it was great to be second on the grid.
Race 1
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Starting on the pole here is a big disadvantage to second place. I did a good start and being on the right hand side helped me getting first out of turn 1. Almost lost it at the fast chicane due to one of the cones, but luckily got away with it. After it I saw some smoke through the mirrors and David dissapearing and Marcel being second.
The first laps were fine, but I started feeling some nasty understeering at the last two corners that costed me a minimun of 3 tenths per lap. At a moment went wide and lost my place to Marcel. Normally I am not a front wheel locker but in this track that was something I could not avoid and that killed my front tires.
Early pitstop at lap 9 to try to gain some advantage on the next laps with fresher tires, but the stop took 51 seconds so at that moment I thought everything was lost to Marcel.
A couple of laps later when he exited his pitstop He was right in front of me so I thought I could try to get close to him. Tried to keep behind him but the final curve was killing my pace. Second gear and big understeering opposite to Marcel's first gear and better front grip.
Finally a few laps to the end I decided it was better to bring it home safe, so finally ended second, not bad at all.
Race 2
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It was really clean through the first turns, but when approaching the final curve I found Marcel being slowed by a couple of cars and tried to outbrake him through the left. But the cars in front of him touched each other, Marcel went to the left to avoid them and took me with him. I was thrown to the pile of tires. Went back to the main straight and then I felt my front left suspension was quite damaged and car was difficult to drive, had to drive that way for a full lap.
Tried to bring it to the boxes but at the fast chicane kissed the right cone and spun, being hit by other cars and getting one of my rear tires ripped off. So race ended there.
Third place for the championship is getting farther with this zero scoring for two consecutive reversed races
How did race2 ended?, I left to watch NFL playoffs
Qualy
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My best offline laptime preparing my setup was a 21.9 so I was no too confident of getting a good result as Rikard, Marcel and David had fastest laptimes. But online things were different and I felt grip to be quite good. That lead for a 21.5 which brought me to 2nd place. It could have been a 2 tenths faster but found traffic and could not improve laptime. Rikard 21.0 was way too far so I it was great to be second on the grid.
Race 1
--------
Starting on the pole here is a big disadvantage to second place. I did a good start and being on the right hand side helped me getting first out of turn 1. Almost lost it at the fast chicane due to one of the cones, but luckily got away with it. After it I saw some smoke through the mirrors and David dissapearing and Marcel being second.
The first laps were fine, but I started feeling some nasty understeering at the last two corners that costed me a minimun of 3 tenths per lap. At a moment went wide and lost my place to Marcel. Normally I am not a front wheel locker but in this track that was something I could not avoid and that killed my front tires.
Early pitstop at lap 9 to try to gain some advantage on the next laps with fresher tires, but the stop took 51 seconds so at that moment I thought everything was lost to Marcel.
A couple of laps later when he exited his pitstop He was right in front of me so I thought I could try to get close to him. Tried to keep behind him but the final curve was killing my pace. Second gear and big understeering opposite to Marcel's first gear and better front grip.
Finally a few laps to the end I decided it was better to bring it home safe, so finally ended second, not bad at all.
Race 2
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It was really clean through the first turns, but when approaching the final curve I found Marcel being slowed by a couple of cars and tried to outbrake him through the left. But the cars in front of him touched each other, Marcel went to the left to avoid them and took me with him. I was thrown to the pile of tires. Went back to the main straight and then I felt my front left suspension was quite damaged and car was difficult to drive, had to drive that way for a full lap.
Tried to bring it to the boxes but at the fast chicane kissed the right cone and spun, being hit by other cars and getting one of my rear tires ripped off. So race ended there.
Third place for the championship is getting farther with this zero scoring for two consecutive reversed races
How did race2 ended?, I left to watch NFL playoffs
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