Happily upload my setups, can't claim they will work for everyone though! Dom used to try them and then go and hide under the bed mumbling.......
However, if it helps one individual get more out of their time racing that's a bonus already as far as I am concerned. On that basis, I will always upload to the online setups server from this point when I have something handy
. You would not have wanted my setup from Mondello for this, that much I do know, it was crap....
Was better here, I found another in the Zolder folder that was nicer. But, I had done no practise for this, work has been a little busy of late....So I had no idea how fast was fast when I joined, but thought a 49 looked more than handy from Dimitar. That was revealed in full technicolour when I zipped around in the early 52s initially
....'get your finger old chap' was the thought, but the end of quali was too close to go too quick, treated it as a warm up session and applied a couple of late tweaks to the setup, but did close the gap quite considerably.
Decent start, but not enough to go past anyone in front. Pestered Dimitar for a couple of laps before running wide and losing the flow, ended up being 4 second off Geoff, 3 off Dimitar, and struggling with front tyres with no heat in them. Managed to hold the gap, and close in a little towards lap 12 or so, and then came across a cloud of dust with Geoff in the middle of it, probably cursing gently....Wasn't sure I had enough pace to close, as Dimitar then accelerated into the fresh air in front of him, posting a couple of good laps to try to pull the gap even further, but I had some heat in the fronts now and was able to respond, doing low 50s at this point in the race repeatedly. It smacked a little of Silverstone last week, in that I was reeling him in, but this time I knew I did not have quite enough pace to get there really, and then the tyres just gently lost grip on the last couple of laps so the chance was gone.
I didn't help it myself though. I stopped a lap early, total brain fart! The gap was only 2 seconds or less, but then I backed off over the line and it took me a few seconds to figure out what was going on.....
Good race, pushed Dimitar harder than he would have preferred I think, but ultimately couldn't do enough to stop him taking the win his consistency merited. Good drive sir
In slight defence of any incident between DD and Matt, that was right at the time I had him under the most pressure I think. Managing back markers is a real skill in its own right, and it is tricky when there is no extra grunt under the right foot to help. But, I always try to find an opportunity to slip past nicely if I can, and prefer it if people don't back off entirely as I wonder whether they are ruining their own race by doing so. The problem comes when either there is a big battle, or there are big differences in corner speed in my experience....