UKGTR Season 14 UKGTR Season 14 Upper Endurance - Potrero - Apr 17

[Berger R - 74]

was great to drive this cars again, i had much fun to push this cars around this track.

1st stint i did drive fast but little conservative (as often) and i had a ok gap to lazlow, think 16/17sec. (not 100% sure), then i did pitstop in lap 15, but i did miss my pitboxplace and the crew did not start to make fuel doing, then i did start engine again and did drive another lap, then next lap i did my 2nd try to make pitstop, this time everything ok, but i did come out of track 14sec. behind lazlow now and only 1 sec. in front of ginsters, which was important to stay in front of him if i will try to catch lazlow.
now comes best part of race.
next 6/7 or 8 laps i did push this car totaly on limit with 2.02.xxx laptimes in a row (only 1x2.03 where i had to lapping 2 cars), think this was limit what is possible to drive in this cars for me, totaly on limit i was, but this was great fun and the gap get closer and closer, but then perhaps 4 or 5 laps before end of race, i was 2 or 3 sec. behind lazlow he did spin and hit the wall (if i saw this correct) in the dangerous hard corner, where 2nd sector time is, and i did overtake and he had bad damage and he did slow laptimes, which did make the fun a suddently end, it had can be close i think, i am sure i would come direct behind him in around 2 laps later, but i am not sure if i did overtake??? never we know this now :'(.

then the last lap i did slower drive and drive race home.

congrats to podium

servus

[spanner]

Not sure what happend overall last night, was really enjoying it on friday night, easily in the 05's but straight away last night the car felt horrible with less grip and ended up a bit slower. Seemed to quallify in the right place though as in the race it became quite lonely with Legzy and nsfast disappearing in front and H@L falling off on the first lap.

Spent most of the first part worrying about my fuel needed for the stop as i'd didnt seem to add up in my head with it not going down quick enough and thinking why i was having to put so much in. So decided to delay the stop and 'do an MJ' and stop once the tank was empty as i still wasnt sure about the fuel. Catching up to GT and Matt and i decided to dive in earlier and came out in the same place as i started such was the gaps around.

Then i seem to get caught out at the place i knew was going to be my undoing, braking around the corner into the chicane while then going down then uphill which seemed to fire me head on into the barrier on the inside. This only took out the front splitter but made the car quite dodgy so the next lap or so i lose it and loose the front body! luckily this was near the pits so dived in and waited for a while for a new car. Came out with GT in close company and Tibs nearby and GT seemed to be struggling with his front missing and managed to just drive right by,  but then Tibs decides to use me as brake! so ended up with the same damage all over again

With the night starting off on the wrong foot anyway i was happier to jump out then try and finish with just a few laps left.

Oooh Laguna next! thats going to be a laugh

[nsfast]

Another great race again in these cars. 

As usual I started a little conservatively, giving SBG an early opportunity to go past, shortly followed by a minor mistake letting Legzy through. What followed was as intense a battle as I can remember with Legzy for the rest of the race.  Whilst in the early part of the first stint Legzy pulled away slightly (and spanner was not far behind  ), I noticed towards the end of the stint I was able to close up and was able to pass before the stop. We exchanged positions again during the stops with Legzy coming out 4s in front. Lap after lap in the second half was a battle to trim the odd 0.2s off Legzy's lead, anticipating the fall off in performance towards the end. With clock ticking down I finally started to close up and got an opportunity with a couple of laps left when Legzy unfortunately had a spin.  Great racing. 

Congrats to the podium and all finishers. Good to see you racing here again Berger...and scoring some good points for the team. 

See you at Laguna.