Yes Mark. You was a pilot who i waited for compaunds battle after Q results. Unlucky it was not happen
May be next time we'll do another one photofinish show
. Simon was unlucky too today. May be need more practice before the races
For me what a race it was! I am near the lucky in having interesting fights ( close or tactic) in most of my races due my skill and ages
This event was the same! Not trained qualy at all and was in hopes that i will be in front of Mark ( my sparring partner) and its will allow to me to use softs for race. I've find a time to test both conpaunds before the race and found softs more applicable for me. I've done . 4th place in Q in 0.5 sec after nfsw was fine .
Has a good start, and after Max's mistake in 1st turn i 3rd! NFSW and FMG was in front ( as always
) and my bussines was a smooth driving in my pace till the end.
All was good untill 8th lap . I had 11 sec stable gap in time running in front of Max. Bruxells exit turn is take my soul . I know that this turn is godless place in Spa. ( 2.53 moment in video below) Slightly overbraking here and you are in the wall due car disbalanced. It was luckily save, not hit the wall but i've lost 9 seconds in this lap, cooling tires and nerves.
But it's bring to me an additional intrigue and fan to race! 3 seconds to me Max passed in 2-3 laps in time when i recovers my nerves
Half of the race we tryed to be smooth in driving in hopes in mistake of other side and last laps of race has a true great battle. I was saved my position using my gearbox , turned for faster speedup and using 1st gear/ Maxs gears was more lazy here . In last 17 lap was very interesting moment in start line and 1st turn after my small mistake in last turn (busstop). It was a real danger for my podium! But we nerved, fighted and crossed sucessfully and i've save my position
But in the end godless turn in Bruxelles exit take my soul again, but i've saved more luckyly and lost minimal time, Max was lucky too here right behind me. We both finished in same positions after the last desperate threat from Max.
Thanks Max for fight and patience!
Congratulation FMG and , sure, NFSW! You was fastest and smooth today! Softs win!
https://youtu.be/nHniYixiNF8