16-01-2014, 05:52 PM
Sorry for the late report guys but i had to look to the replay as i couldnt remember much of race2!
Kind of a bittersweet event for me. Considering hadn't chosen my set up yet until after qualifying was over I wasn't expecting much. I knew I didn't have enough seat time to really be able to drive the car hard and battle for positions.
Qualifying was basically practice for me trying to find something that would help me be fast and consistent. I think I ended up fifth or sixth on the grid.
Race one:
Pretty much held station on the start and after DJ and Rik tangled together that was up into third place. I didn't want to make any mistakes in the pits and I wasn't sure if I had to share with anyone so I decided to pit on lap 18 just to be safe. All was looking good for either a second or third place finish, but looking behind a fraction too long to make sure the coast was clear, I clipped one of the tall black and white brake marker cones just as I was entering back on track with my rear tire. This spun me around and damaged my steering column and I needed to come back in for more repairs. Was in shock and totally gutted that I threw away a podium finish. In the end I think I finished 12th or 13th in the first race.
Race two:
I think I started from sixth position on the grid. Sorry to Jay Rimes for the slight touch entering into turn one. Glad to see you recover only losing one position hopefully with no damage. Pretty uneventful race from there. I should've probably pushed a little bit harder from the beginning but I didn't have the best of confidence and I didn't want to throw away a potential podium from a mistake. After a few laps was up into second place behind Hedlund. I didn't even look at the gap because I knew it would make me try to push harder. About lap nine DJ had slowly worked his way up behind me, uncharacteristically I just let him buy (happy birthday), I thought it would be better to try to tag and see where he was going a bit quicker. He pitted on the next lap though and I carried on. I pitted a bit earlier this time I believe on lap 16. In the last few laps I was closing in a bit on DJ and ran some very high 1:22 laps ending up only 6 seconds behind in third. Was happy and disappointed, if I pushed a little harder at the start and didn't let DJ by I may have been able to fight for the second place. I also realized in the second race it probably is good to pit just around half distance because after about lap 12 or 13 it becomes very difficult to maintain the same lap time. Maybe only .2 or .3 but it all adds up.
Thanks to all for putting on this championship. Spa should be a good of event... see you all on track!
Kind of a bittersweet event for me. Considering hadn't chosen my set up yet until after qualifying was over I wasn't expecting much. I knew I didn't have enough seat time to really be able to drive the car hard and battle for positions.
Qualifying was basically practice for me trying to find something that would help me be fast and consistent. I think I ended up fifth or sixth on the grid.
Race one:
Pretty much held station on the start and after DJ and Rik tangled together that was up into third place. I didn't want to make any mistakes in the pits and I wasn't sure if I had to share with anyone so I decided to pit on lap 18 just to be safe. All was looking good for either a second or third place finish, but looking behind a fraction too long to make sure the coast was clear, I clipped one of the tall black and white brake marker cones just as I was entering back on track with my rear tire. This spun me around and damaged my steering column and I needed to come back in for more repairs. Was in shock and totally gutted that I threw away a podium finish. In the end I think I finished 12th or 13th in the first race.
Race two:
I think I started from sixth position on the grid. Sorry to Jay Rimes for the slight touch entering into turn one. Glad to see you recover only losing one position hopefully with no damage. Pretty uneventful race from there. I should've probably pushed a little bit harder from the beginning but I didn't have the best of confidence and I didn't want to throw away a potential podium from a mistake. After a few laps was up into second place behind Hedlund. I didn't even look at the gap because I knew it would make me try to push harder. About lap nine DJ had slowly worked his way up behind me, uncharacteristically I just let him buy (happy birthday), I thought it would be better to try to tag and see where he was going a bit quicker. He pitted on the next lap though and I carried on. I pitted a bit earlier this time I believe on lap 16. In the last few laps I was closing in a bit on DJ and ran some very high 1:22 laps ending up only 6 seconds behind in third. Was happy and disappointed, if I pushed a little harder at the start and didn't let DJ by I may have been able to fight for the second place. I also realized in the second race it probably is good to pit just around half distance because after about lap 12 or 13 it becomes very difficult to maintain the same lap time. Maybe only .2 or .3 but it all adds up.
Thanks to all for putting on this championship. Spa should be a good of event... see you all on track!