About my race I can say that the second place was a bit unexpected, but some lucky episodes helped me during the race, and even in the 2 mins before.
After a good qualif. lap I was praying for low temperatures in race session, and when I saw 23° on track I simply decided that was the right moment to experiment a soft tyre strategy. Massimo did a huge mistake, changing his strategy before the start, but I will apprehend about this only at the end of the race in TS.
At the start I was a bit scared and I didn't forced too much the braking. Maikel was very good in keeping me behind during all the first lap, but I managed to have a better exit speed on the straight before the Blanchimont exploiting my powerful Lambo engine and overtaking him before the corner. Maikel was really fair and kind to lift the gas up a bit cause I probably left him only the space to avoid me. Maybe I was a bit hard in my manouvre but we clarified the episode after the race, I hope you won't mind
After some laps with my fresh tyres and some Gavino's G27 issue I passed him and could finally start to put in motion my strategy with free road in front of me. I knew the soft will have lasted only 12/13 lap if I was good enough in my driving but after that I would have had six or seven laps of pure terror
In fact I managed to create only a small gap of about 2.3 seconds on Gavino, who suddently disapperaed in a lap or so when my tyres wanted to test my drifting skill for the first time. Massimo and Maikel were closing on me lap after lap, and I thought that Massimo went for full tank and no tyre change strategy, but I was wrong
Massimo started with 70 litres and his car spun just before the pit entry and hit the wall, so he decided to refill only other 70 litres to save not more than five or six seconds on Maikel, that changed his tyres.
After the pit I found myself surprisingly in second place and at that point I knew that I could only have lost it by myself. Anyway I tried to make a chase on that damned fast Sardinian, but even this time my hunt ended up with a spin just in front of Felix, so I gave up and I was happy with a good second place.
Grats to the finishers, with this heat wave was quite an hard work
I'll let you know asap the VDA drivers that you can remove from the list for the next one. See you