I felt I did quite well last night despite finishing "only" 7th.
I managed a whopping 15 minutes practice and it meant I had a sort of half baked setup prepared. (I took the setup from the last round and tweaked it a little bit
).
In qually, I was pretty close to the front 6 with softs on and so I thought I would be in no-mans land during the race as there was a chunk of time to the cars behind me. No, not so. On mediums the car was a real handful (fun!) but I was a lot slower into the braking especially whilst others like FMG and Mark were better on mediums than their qually times had suggested they would be, so I ended up having a race with them both and never saw the top 5 again.
I really wanted to adjust the brake balance during the race to see if it would help my braking issues, but to my disappointment found I couldn't adjust it. Perhaps my ABS is too high?! it was on default (4 i think). I think my BB was on 56%?
Anyway, having finally succumbed to FMG it looked like Mark would get me, but just after he overtook me he left the door wide open and invited me through when I was only half chancing it. It was enough to get me back in front of him and it took all my effort to stay there, eventually getting back near FMG near the end (as he struggled even more towards the end).
I was thinking about softs for the race as the mediums are shagged during the race anyway, so maybe softs are worth it for the extra pace if they are as worn as mediums by the end?
Anyway, it was good fun again and I look forward to the next round.