Was pleased with my qually lap as it was only 0.1 slower than my PB. There were a lot of cars very close so it was gonna be hectic.
At the start of Race 1 I was afraid to have too much wheelspin and was gentle with releasing the clutch, however, these things lack torque and I ended up crawling off the line.
Madd and I were heading towards T1 and were both overly cautious as we were going very slow through the chicane with massive gapes between us
. Better too much than too little
.
I couldn't really create a gap untill it was a few sec bigger all of a sudden. After that I could drive till the finish.
My tyres lasted excellent and I was doing faster and faster laps and setting the fastest laps in my last lap
. Expected them to be shot after half the distance.
Saw an amazing finish between Zacari and Backo
For Race 2 I knew I could just rev at the start and let the clutch fly off. I was lucky that the spot infront of me was empty and I could overtake Bernie shortly after the start. There were 3 Shark cars infront of me at that point. Green Hell for some teams
. Before braking into T1 I past Mark as well and was side by side with Zacari and right behind Madd. With a better entry I could overtake Zacari and hunt down Madd
. He had to avoid Freq's car which gave me a run on the inside at the hairpin.
Lap later me Dave and FreQ were at the s/f straight, FreQ in 2nd past the leading Dave and me and Dave were side by side heading into T1. Dave held is line very well (although my line was stupishly tight
) and he stayed infront. But after the chicane I got a run out of him before the other corner and outbraked him.
Like FreQ said he was weaving on the straight to annoy me (still that isn't allowed
...weaving, annoying me is open season
) and I was thinking what the hell ya doing. Ofcourse you lose a lot of speed. On a straight even 1mph makes a difference and a 600bhp GT loses speed from weaving. So it was a very easy pass, thank you very much
.
Again I could do faster laps the whole race long, and did a racelap which was only 0.3 slower than my quallypace. So for me the tyres were brilliant. And I was running wing 1-1 as I could only see the straight as an overtaking place
.
I love these kind of cupraces where everyone races the same material. The grid looked lovely with all those colors and the Radicals really enjoyed me more than expected.