Good race!
Had a fight with a Vette. Very cool fight in fact.
I knew he had to stop at least once for fuel and probs tires so that would take him about 45-55 sec or so. I had to do three stops. I've seen in Q that the right front is just going in the braking zones of the two chicanes so if I just could sort that out I could go through with one set I thougt. That's exactly what happend, so three stops for 15-16 sec is about 45-55 sec (the stop of the Vette). Somewhere mid race after the first stop of the Vette he was catching up on me with fresh rubber mostly in the two braking zones and and 3rd sector straights whereas at the end of his first stint he was loosing some time on old rubber.
I noticed actually chicanes exits and the fast turns in second sector I could pull of a bit and saw in the rear view mirror he had understeering there. He still was catching up but I just could hold the distance at 0.4-0.5 at the end of the last straight. This was really nuts. From first to the third sector I could gain about half a sec or a little more and then the question was will he be able to catch me in the third sector. If he catces up as it lookes like I though that is fine but I can just hold him up a bit and then let him go saving the tires for the last stints and pit.
But I had to ask the Vette how long it can go the pace without destroying tires
and loosing a bit of pace as this was what I needed knowing I have one stop to do and push again to catch up. I upped the pace a bit knowing my tires are not happy with that in the chicanes and braking zones just to force the Vette to stick with me and destroy it's tires and believe it or not it worked well as I noticed he is loosing more and more time in the fast corners. I was like: " darn, is this cool lol"
I don't know what happened there exactly cuz somewhere along the last stint the Vette had problems and lost time big times but hell that would have been a fancy fight there till the end.
My tires were fine for the whole race and I could have managed two eventually three more stints on the same pace. But man I had to take a shower after the race lol.
This is a great combo if you have somebody who matches the pace to race with.
Awesome aswell with different cars with completely different advantages and disadvantages. Just awesome. Probs one of the best rF2 races for me personally.
I do not expect anybody here to understand the movie I had running in the race there but I thought, hell why not I'd just post it.
I don't know mybe at the end the Vette had a completly different storry and race but that is what I thought and it was fun.
So thanks RD and everybody who took part!