Hi all
Very nice race yesterday for me! In qualif I had to take the feeling with the car and the track, and the first attempts were very bad... I started 6th but I knew that the race was long, and I had the time to understand how to drive with the Fezza here.
During the first laps I wan't able to keep the pace of the guys in front, and in 9-10 laps I was at 10 seconds by the leader, tasting the amazing duel between Clive and Ade. After some laps I started to close the gap, and with a bit of lucky, cause a double mistake by Clive and Ade, I took the 3rd place, starting to gain some tenth in every lap by Paulo and Mike.
They pitted before than me of about3-4 laps, and I had the chance to make my last laps alone and pushing a bit more, trying to gain as much as possible before the pit.
At the pit started the comic movie
. I arrived slowly in the pit lane, but on the left there was a very small place to overtake the cars that were doing their pits, and my car got stucked on the "step" leaving me with half car suspended in the air. Fortunately I managed to bring it back with the reverse gear, and after wasting 8-10 seconds I managed to reach my mechanics, but I suppose to have wasted all the advantage in fuel strategy with that manouvre.
In fact Mike was coser than I expect, but with weared tyres, he could only keep my pace without gaining time, and losing a couple of tenth per lap. The trouble was Paulo! He was coming back as a fury, and I thought he was on new tyres cause of his pace, but as he said he didn't changed it, so his pace was even more terrifying!
He was gaining on me 1 second per lap, and with 5 laps to go he was under the 5 seconds of distance by me, so I expected a "challenged" last lap. Fortunately a slight mistake of Paulo at only 2 laps to go, gave me another 6-7 tenth of seconds more, and leaved no chances for Paulo to try an attack, and close the gap before the third sector of last lap.
That was a really challanged race, and a lot of people were in a close gap, especially in qualif, but even in race. It's really good to see the frist five cars in less than 10 seconds by the leader before the pit. Great work Mike
, and many congrats for your pace with the Falcon... fantastic! Grats to Paulo that made me sweat a lot, making me become an "accountant" for the last 10 laps
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Thanks to all the people who joined the race. I will have to jump the next cause my Italian P&G champ will restart on the next Thursday. I'll see you in 2 weeks.
Bye bye