Hi Guys,
I am about half way through the 1st season in my career with Toro Rosso (Legend difficulty, 50% races). I've become increasingly better as the season has progressed and came to one of my better tracks in Valencia. Because of rain and my inability to be quick in anything other than dry conditions, I qualified 12th which isn't that bad but knowing my ability around the track it could have been better. The race itself was dry throughout apart from a spit of rain on the last few laps, not enough to change tyres.
In the first 4 laps I charged through the field and found myself 5th, closing in on Grosjean and pulling away from Schumacher and Webber. All was going well. I didn't manage to get passed Romain due to my occasional sloppy errors which will cost me a second and a half or so for each mistake. So I sit in a comfortable 5th and on lap 12 I pit for the prime tyres. In theory with fresher rubber and less fuel on board my lap times should improve, but they never really did. No matter how hard I pushed and how well I hit my apexes, I was slowly getting swallowed up by everyone behind me, including my team mate.
A few too many errors meant a drive through for corner cutting (mainly due to making a mess of the braking zone at the end of the DRS straight). So this dropped me to 8th, 5 seconds behind Massa. I thought that maybe with some good driving I would catch him. I ultimately finished 8th with a train behind me and 30 seconds behind Massa. I was baffled because I don't feel I was driving any worse.
Has anybody else found themselves in this sort of position or am I alone?
I am about half way through the 1st season in my career with Toro Rosso (Legend difficulty, 50% races). I've become increasingly better as the season has progressed and came to one of my better tracks in Valencia. Because of rain and my inability to be quick in anything other than dry conditions, I qualified 12th which isn't that bad but knowing my ability around the track it could have been better. The race itself was dry throughout apart from a spit of rain on the last few laps, not enough to change tyres.
In the first 4 laps I charged through the field and found myself 5th, closing in on Grosjean and pulling away from Schumacher and Webber. All was going well. I didn't manage to get passed Romain due to my occasional sloppy errors which will cost me a second and a half or so for each mistake. So I sit in a comfortable 5th and on lap 12 I pit for the prime tyres. In theory with fresher rubber and less fuel on board my lap times should improve, but they never really did. No matter how hard I pushed and how well I hit my apexes, I was slowly getting swallowed up by everyone behind me, including my team mate.
A few too many errors meant a drive through for corner cutting (mainly due to making a mess of the braking zone at the end of the DRS straight). So this dropped me to 8th, 5 seconds behind Massa. I thought that maybe with some good driving I would catch him. I ultimately finished 8th with a train behind me and 30 seconds behind Massa. I was baffled because I don't feel I was driving any worse.
Has anybody else found themselves in this sort of position or am I alone?
Hope you're not like me. 
