Grats to Reik, Sean and Gaetano
Qualify: 15th
My qualify lap was not very good, although I didn't make any direct mistakes. My problem was that I was not in "quali-mode" but in stint mode, and was not able to find my quali pace in the duration of the outlap.
Nevertheless I'll rather start 15th well prepared for the race than closer to the front, but not so well prepared for the race
Race: 12th
The start went well and I was soon on 13th place, behind Peter I think it was. After 3 laps I had a gigantic nVidia-freeze, lasting 10 seconds or so. When I reappeared I was 17th, with 18th place nowhere to be seen.
I started now to chace David And Kurt I think it was who were 3-4 seconds ahead of me. However, I was not able to close the gap. I had a big problem in t4 (Gössler)... for some reason my braking seemed to be compromised, even though I braked early I could not stop the car in time and I went wide, losing a second or so every lap. This confused me greatly and I started to brake earlier for all turns. However, things seemed to be normal in the other turns, so when I braked early threre my car slowed to early... bottom line, I totally lost my rythm.
On lap 13 I registred that the braking was "back to normal", and my race stabilised, although I was not able to recreate my pace from my practice sessions.
I know my experience does not make sense, I do not know what happened or if it all was in my head.
A little later in the race I made a mistake when I was too consumed with monitoring Reik that was closing up. I went wide in t9 and let a few cars past. When i reentred another car was closing up, and it took me a little time to realise it was Sean, but as soon as I learned that I let him past before t1, although i should have done so earlier on the s/f straight if I only had known.
It seemed most had a very good race pace yesterday... if I am not mistaken Bob also was quite fast, he too was ahead of me in the early stages without me being able to close the gap... well done to all.
I was a bit disappointed with 12th as I was well prepared for this race. I had done numerous stints, all without problems or accidents and a nice pace. Therefore it was disappointing not to find the rythem when it really counted.
Never the less it was good fun, thank you to all.
Here are the results:
www.prestogp.com/index.php?view=standings&season=7&league=1