It was surely a great race.
Joined the qualif. with only 8 mins to the end of the session, so I was not warmed up at all before the race, and the best I could do was a 3rd place in my hotlap.
I tried a bit on Tuesday and I noticed that this time meds were probably the best option for the race, even if I didn't complete an entire race test. During the first laps I chased closely FMG and had the better of him for the first time after a few laps pulling the braking at corner 6.
Alexey was a couple of seconds ahead but I was struggling to find my pace, and after a couple of laps I did a mistake, so FMG had the chance to take the second position back. In the meantime Alexey was keeping a good pace and his advantage increased to 5 seconds. I decided to calm down focusing on keeping FMG's pace that was surely better than mine in the first half of the race.
With approx. 15/16 minutes to go I thought to be warmed up enough and I passed FMG again at the braking of corner 6, this time with him defending the inside and me crossing the lines with an early braking. I was quite pleased by that manouvre and pulled away instanly by FMG recovering the gap with Alexey, that now was struggling with his tyres, in 3 laps or so.
When I was on the back of Alexey he did an instant mistake at the exit of the Mobil 1 corner so I took the lead and started to think: "Now it's done!"
2 laps later at the Sudcurve I went stupidly wide and Alexey took back the lead with FMG breathing on my neck.
At the corner 6 there was the showdown
Alexey was on the inside, me in the middle and FMG on the outside. I braked earlier cause I hoped that Alexey would have pulled tha braking with me crossing the line as in advance, but he almost lost the control due to his late braking and I could no nothing to avoid the contact, luckily without any major consequence for our cars.
He decided to keep the lead eventually and I was not so happy in that moment for his decision, then a couple of laps later he went wide at the Sudkurve and I manged to take the lead again, this time until the checkered flag.
Talking about the braking it seems to me that you brake simply too late in too many occasion and that ruins your tyre in a bad way. I cheked your video on youtube and it's clear that you were with the front tyres flatspotted at least in the last 5 or 6 laps. If you 'harass' your tyres at any braking this is what happens. Probably you had a bad brake bias or a lower downforce than me (I was with splitter 3 and wing 8 ). However this is the link for my setup. I won't be surprised if it's almost undrivable. Gavino did never gave me a help with this car
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