So as I was in a rush to join the server, I didn't thank whoever it was for making the password visible to me, thank you so much; I perhaps should've registered a bit earlier... ^^
Still I had more than enough time to set a good lap and I would say I sort of managed to accomplish that, there was one occasion where I was impeded on a very good lap, and I also remember who it was, but let me tell you: no worries, things like these happen and I could see that it didn't happen because of a lack of awareness.
P7 it was which was more than good enough to go places in this race. So I checked my setup again in the last 30 seconds and somehow I thought: "Hmm, was this the right setup? There's another setup called "race", let's take a look... Wait, wrong fuel load, add some more liters".. and so it happened that I didn't realize that this setup was different, though not entirely bad, but a lot more oversteery under braking which hindered my consistency by quite a bit in hindsight.
So as the flag drops, I'm trying to get some rotation into my rear wheels... and lose the revs because the first gear was totally inappropriately set up. Lost a few positions, but kept a cool head and soon I had gotten some positions back (did you lose it on your own, Andreas? I couldn't think of a valid reason why we should have touched, yet I was sad to see you have a spin
). Being in P7, Tristan spun in front of me, leaving me with a free road up ahead of me; next up was Doni. So as I managed to catch him slowly, but steadily, there was this one lap where in the last corner, a wasp appeared out of nowhere and interrupted my field of view which distracted me - spin.
Before the spin it seemed like I was a little bit quicker than Tristan, but as I fell back directly behind him, our pace became more and more even, eventually up to the point where the pace advantage shifted in his favour. We both had our little offs here and there, resulting in several position changes, but after my last spin I fell back 8 seconds behind him and from then on he completely had the edge over me while keeping it consistent. So congratulations to you, Tristan, for winning this hard-fought battle, you were the better driver today.
Thank you everyone for the good racing, it was a pleasure to be on track with all of you today. Commiserations especially to Uli for his disco, and also to Phil who had a good race up for grabs (but sadly couldn't convert it into a good result) and to the rest of the non-finishers and generally unlucky racers.
See you next time!