I had a lot of fun yesterday.
First, I must acknowledge Maxime's help with the setup that helped me get my lap times in the reasonable zone (1:28) and gave me a chance to be relatively upfront at the start of the race... It's hard to overtake here.
The first lap defined 95% of the race for me. The accident at Lycée hairpin between Lorenzo and Fabri pushed me to the left and I couldn't close the turn enough which wasn't great but then I was hit by Mark that was suffering similarly from understeering (I believe). In any case, nothing really changed there for us. Mark went ahead and I found myself in a very compromised parallel run with Maxime that played it very respectfully as we were approaching that terrible left corner at the top of the hill
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Mark's error in the last part of L1 was my opportunity to be in P5 and the rest of the race was perfectly described by Mark in his comment. I had some lap time management and pressure from Mark at the end to keep me focused.
I leave the video of the race in my youtube channel for those that want to see 'consistency'
from my viewpoint.
I'm delighted with the podium!
Video of the race:
https://youtu.be/DEf0Z-yX8PAAll the best.