I still don't know how I did the qually lap - I ran a very understeering setup in qually to get better drive with a very tight diff, watching my gear changes through the final twisty section onto the start straight I think this is where a lot of the time came from. I was in 5th about 100 meters earlier than I ever could be on the race setup having the threaded the needle without lifting out of that last hairpin
It wasn't a very good setup to race with here though I decided, as it required crazy accuracy to go fast with. It was actually slower than the race one when driving carefully and was much harder to save if it wandered towards a wall....
The qually replay is almost boring to watch externally as there's none of the car movement visible in my race setup - I was almost driving as straight as Manteos does, which explains his pace normally
Thanks to Manteos for managing to do the complete opposite of my warnings prior to the race start (
) I managed to finish the 1st lap with a nice gap of about a second back to 2nd (I have to admit to laughing a bit as he sailed past me into the Hairpin
).
Right up until he lunched his gearbox I was really being forced to concentrate though, as after respective errors between us we settled at about 3 seconds and then just stayed there with a bit of sea-sawing each lap until about 20-25 minutes in.
As you can't get to your clutch properly maybe try turning on autoclutch if that can work with a H-Shifter? It's not as good as doing it yourself but at least you can then rev match and keep the gearbox alive?
Well done to Fabs and Jos on the podium, and to all finishers - This round was the seasons 'Evil technical' track, having a legit 70's layout was just a bonus, so finishing here is good work. Especially given just how nasty the braking zone between T1 and T2 is (Fantastic when you do it right though
)
Thanks for taking part all and see you at Spa for the special next week - server is already up and I'll sort the announcement thread after work today.
