For some reason I was sure that qual will start at 21:30. Much to my surprise chat room was empty (except Iestyn) at 21:27, and the server was in last minute of qual. So I plugged my wheel, and joined in hurry. As I had no practice, I stood in the garage with default setup. Changed a few things, set fuel, went to the grid and crossed my fingers
As I could not try the track since its release I expected to see the grid on the back straight like on the 24h version. It was not there, so I felt we will have a full warm up lap. My guess was right
So it was in lap 2 when I realized that my gears were too long, and the engine topped at 8000 rpm - touching 300 km/h only in a tow... That really determined my race, as compared to pole lap I was 3 sec slower
Anyway I decided to finish the race with no more than 4 laps down to winner. Later I had to retire to pits for family reasons. Congrats to the winner and all finishers! Next time I will put more attention to race details