Big thank you to Lasse for the great season. I am really sad it has ended now as i had one of the best chases and battles in my career here. But we just need to wait for the next year's.
For race 1 i thought that i am fast in qualy until Daz show some muscles. He was definitely the fastest car and took the pole without problem. It was me and Markus fighting for P2. Unfortunately Daz had some problems and had to start from last row.
I was quickest on the start and took the lead. Daz was flying behind and was in P4 after few corners. He, Markus and Geoffers began some battles and i knew this was the moment to make some gap in front of them. But this didn't happen because they were a little faster than me. At some point Markus and Daz slowed down as i think there was incident between them. I decided to show fair play and i waited for them as well and we continue the battle.
Unfortunately Markus made a mistake and it was Daz breading all over my neck now. He was there for at least 7-8 laps before locking his brakes for turn 1 and spin. It was now going to be me versus Geoff. As he was faster maybe with saved tires at the end but i was able to stay in front and win the race.
In Q2 i just don't know what happen. I was terribly slow than the front 3, watching them beating fastest lap after fastest lap and i was 2 second behind.
Maybe it was based on wrong setup, or just the BMW was slower - i don't know but i knew i must do something to just try to be closer to them. At the end of Q i made some changes to the setup and i saw that i am with default engine rev limit. I put it on max but i knew this will give me just some tents more.
Fortunately i think i received some more tents from the other setup changes and now the car was just a little bit faster them in Q.
Once again i was quickest on the start and took the lead from P4. But i was thinking - this won't last long. But once again i had so much luck. Unfortunately a contact between Daz and Geoff from P3 and 2 put them out of the battle for the win and something happen with Markus as well.
So it was me at the lead with no one around. I knew the race is not over and that Markus will challenge so i just kept driving on the max.
It took Markus just 6-7 laps to make the gap from 6 seconds to just 1 and we started a great chase.
It was me now under big pressure as he was definitely faster. Bit this was the moment when i started driving at 110%. In the last laps i had great stint of 3 laps in a row making new personal Fastest lap of the race and 2 laps after that just slower where i won the race. The last 2 laps were not so good but i was able to stay out of trouble and win. I think Markus had worse tires then so that help me a lot.
And at the i was so emotional on the video after bot races - not because i was so fast and didn't had a lot of luck, but because in both races i gave 110% to win them. It was great feeling trying to jump over the cars potential.
Congrats to Geoffers and Daz for the podiums at Race 1 and Markus and Geoff for the podiums in Race 2.
Race replay with camera and commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjcVMqXI06M