Weekend's Report
Qualifying
Excellent lap. Risked a lot in the first sector, that fast chicane... would either go really well or really bad. Glad it worked fine. Lost about a tenth in last sector, but it was good enough to steal the pole from Marcin.
Race
Managed to hold the lead with cold tyres and brakes, and for the first 5 laps me and Marcin were in a very similar pace. I was quicker in sector 1 and 3, and he was quicker on sector 2. We were pulling away from the people behind, little by little. As soon as the rain arrived, I was suddenly much quicker. I was worried about overheating tyres in the race, but the rain helped a lot to keep them cool and optimized for grip. So I started pulling away, and when I came in the pits on lap 31 I had more or less 10.0 seconds of gap.
Pit-stop, all done, back in the lead with a similar gap of 9.0-10.0 seconds. Then it was all under control. Didn't need to push much, was easy to pull away some more from Marcin, and Johannes in third had a similar pace to mine, closing in behind Marcin. I had a couple of incidents with backmarkers, losing about 4.0 seconds overall, but nothing too serious. Was confortable in the lead opening lap 42 when... BOOM. Desktop... minidump...
Oh well, this was it.
Glad Johannes got a podium for us in second place. Grats to the winner and all the finishers.
See you in Daytona.