Rather uneventful race for me. I again procrastinated on some practicing for the race and did a long stint of practice on Friday night. I always hate trying to figure out what kind of wing is necessary for certain tracks. High wing and sacrifice top speed? Lower wing and hope not to spin out in the corners? Ended up going with a relatively low wing since I didnt want to be a traffic cone on the Kimmel Straight
Qualifying sucked. I had a mediocre first Q lap, and then screwed up all of my other attempts (most of them at the Bus Stop chicane), and qualified 13th or so. Decent start, and avoided a wreck right after T1. Thought I had a good run through Eau Rouge, but somehow
@Aidan Keranen started flying by me on the right, but it looks like he ran out of revs and I was able to keep the spot going into the curves.
Had a few hairy moments when it looked like Jeremy nearly warped into my cockpit and luckily the server chose other victims instead
. For a lap or two I sacrificed line and some speed in an effort to give Jeremy a wide berth, and eventually got ahead when he spun at the Bus Stop. Settled in with
@David Armstrong a bit ahead. I think I had the pace for 7/8 of the lap to catch him, but I would always misbrake going into the Bus Stop and give the time I gained back. With 2 laps left, I tried to push to see what I could do to close the gap, but spun at the exit of Bus Stop and handed 4th to Jeremy.
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Although it was nice to finish 5th, it was a little bit disappointing that I only had one proper pass in gaining spots with most of the gain due to attrition.
I'm hoping to finish off things strong at Monza. I've been improving as the season has gone on as I have been actually learning how to drive a car properly in addition to treating things as
a race and not as a series of 12 or so hotlaps.
Thanks to
@Chris Stacey,
@Sniper, and contrats to
@Sun Levi yet again for a dominating race.