Are we using the full or light version?

Went down a grass bank and could not recover to track so quit out. Shame, was going to be a good event. 

Now that was probably the best race of the season for me.
I am ecstatic about how I was able to defend the overall 5th (3rd in a class) position with Bellett from Chris and his 1600TI and at the same time I am bit sad for Chris as you were clearly faster than me, but two unfortunate spins took the well built lead out of the window. However I did my personal best laps last 4 laps in a row, so The BMW grille looming in my rear view mirror was definitely part of the excellent result here.

I have raced here only once before and that ended up in some ravine in first lap, so I started very carefully in practice and qualify. Before the race I changed gearing just one click shorter and that changed responsiveness of the  car quite bit. In start I got a good start by such a margin that I was baffled a moment before realizing that I truly launched the car several positions (at least three?) up. I knew track being do or die while trying, so after start I concentrated making steady corner entries, corner after corner and not worrying too much about my position. Somewhere in lap 5 I think I saw Chris spinning in last corner and I did almost catch him there, but  I knew him being about 1.5 seconds faster per lap so He soon vanished to horizon. However in Lap 8 He was stands still in first hairpin when the up hill back to finish starts. In start of the lap nine, I had 8 seconds of lead and I was deadly sure that Chris would overtake me before the end, so I did not change a thing in my driving. However when we starting lap 11 and still had over 3 seconds of lead, I made decision try to defend my position or go to the ravine while trying. Next 4 laps I did my personal best laps and while Chris was reaching me, I had a bit over second lead when the final lap started and that was fast one. There was several places where I am not still sure how those can be driven flat out with Bellett, but somehow I did and survived to tell about it.

In the end, Bellett was quite nice drive here as long as you played the weight transfer right, there was plenty of grip to drift around some of the corners. Of course the 4 speed gearbox was hindering in some places, forcing to scream the engine in red line in 2nd gear as the 3rd was too long and 2nd was too short, but during the race I found few places where I could use this as advantage by slingshot the car out of the corner by changing 3rd in correct moment.

Thanks again for a good race.

Here's the two last laps from the Chris' car:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuGhe1WYpn4

Good fun last night, really enjoy the challenge of this track of trying to carry speed through the combination corners...

I was very lucky though.

Decent pace, took the pole and made a good start, and was pulling away. To be honest, I did wonder whether Micha was letting me go and waiting for the late race pace of the BMW to kick in like it did at Interlagos.....

Made a daft error on lap 3, a spin putting the nose of the car in the grass verge dropping me behind Micha. Was very annoyed with myself, had barely spun in quali or practise, but the race is the race.....Made up the time, and kind of pestered Micha for a while, and again I think he let me go. From there I pulled away over the next few laps to give a 10 second gap or so by lap 11.

Tires were now telling me they were struggling, especially the front left. Slowed down a touch, but still had understeer. Noticed on lap 13 the gap had gone much larger at some point, 20 seconds at least, so thought to myself 'just keep it on the island'....

And then on the last lap just made a pigs ear of it at the start of the 3rd sector I think. Flew off the road at a rate of knots into the scenery, and thought that was me done. But, I hit some kind of grassy wall at an angle, and this fired me away at an angle again, and once I got it the car moving I realised I could see the road, headed for it, getting back on with around 13 seconds gap left, but with a very second hand car. Dragged it to the finish to take the win, just outrageously lucky, I didn't deserve it at all in all honesty. One more lap and I am sure Micha would have caught and passed me as the car would have been between 5-10 seconds off the pace I think.

Grats to all that made the flag.

Result



@ Lasse: your cars  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnFrRRyrnY