Comments from last night....
my failure to finish was a driver error at the fast chicane. under pressure from a williams and i turned in a bit to sharp hit the black and yellow curb and good night vienna. hey ho... was in 3rd at the time from a 15th place start.
with regards formation lap - keep a steady pace. i was trying to get into single file behind Fernado but mclaren behind kept zooming up and down. very unnerving. i had to trust that he wouldn't collect me.
launch control. i just cannot understand why people are struggling with this. heres what i do and have not had an issue. hopefully this will help someone.
step 1 - pull up to grid box.
step 2 - engage neutral
step 3 - push and hold launch control
step 4 - when the lights start to go red still holding launch control push gas pedal to 100%
step 5 - when the lights go out release launch control. keep foot planted and go thru the gears
things not to do.
don't use touch a manual clutch pedal while launching under this proceedure.
don't use part throttle. keep it 100%.
if lifting to avoid an incident ahead remember if you plant your foot again you may spin it... cold tyres! treat it like a lady (as someone said to me... i think it was Ingemar)
hope that helps a bit.
finally these cars need a clear head to drive, not sure if the end of a weekend is helping (not looking for excuses just trying to ensure we have a good race come next weekend). the 13:00GMT race was a lot better than this one, even aliens like Tim had incidents with the 20:00GMT start. although saying that Ben turned up right on the money...
