Thanks for an emotionally immersive race!
My goals were modest in this speedy company.
1) have the car survive as a viable engineering unit (brake failure at Sao Paolo)
2) only get lapped once!
I was in a little inter team derby with
@David Cook in the other Minardi which of itself is interesting. We have become a team that competes on track between the two garages but are sharing less and less data
as each of us battles for #1 driver status
. All cool and realistic. More Nico and Lewis or I suppose Esteban and Adrian than say Seb And Mark.
The pace of the top guys just amazes me here and makes me look for more pace which is why I'm here as well as for fun.
Quali
I had a clean quali run and had P13 till the last minute and
@Kris Cobb and David Cook (DC) both slipped under me.
Race: Race director asked for care on lap 1 so I was conservative at T1 and was passed.
Bit of an elbows out battle for 2 laps (or 1 and a half actually) saw me in the gravel and pitting for repairs at the end of lap 2.
The 50 seconds total cost might have seen the end of target #2.
Target #1 was met and I caught and passed 2 cars which with attrition meant P14.
So I finished.
I love these cars. I learned a bit this week through carstat and Motec about temps. But if you think I will share this while I am being roundly thrashed you have another thing coming.
Thanks for the race again.
