Great event for me on my favourite track
Q: I was glad that it rained, because even though I had a potentialy good qualy pace on slicks, I also had quite a big fluctuation between qualy-runs, so I feared this would have ended in a not so great lap considering my open hate-relationship with superpole
Now that I watched the lap back, I saw that it was a nice one, just a bit much on the safe side.
During driving I had multiple moments were I instantly thought "damn, this was way too safe and therefore too slow!"... So you can imagine that I was shocked to see me on p2 crossing the line with just a under 1 tenth gap to Reik
R: Had a very silly moment at the start: I quickly checked my pit-preset as I always do and saw that for some reason, it showed a completly wrong preset that wasnt even activated in my menu
So I started to quickly select the right one, not knowing that all my deativated presets were activated, which made no sense at all. When I finally reached my right preset (the last one of course...), I figured out on the last moment that the startlights were already burning and I was still in neutral ect...
So I made a very hasty, somewhat still almost normal start, but lost 3 positions already
Drove along on p5 for while and later on p2 after the 3 car incident happened in front.
Overshot my pitbox on my first stop, because I was pretty sure that it was further back in free practice
Went into my second pitstop overshooting the damn spot again...
That and some difficult laps before that led to loose me enough time to Tim who was now to far in front after all that.
Now to one of the strangest things that happened to me in this game:
On lap 41 I exit out of turn1 and suddenly my game starts to stutter out of the blue.
Exactly on that moment, as if someone has pulled a switch, suddenly my tire-grip was horrendous. Could not even come close to drive in my normal gears because I suddenly had grip that was comparable to what the car had during rain.
I had to even mostly use the gearing that I used during wet-laps
Suddenly when entering the last sector of lap 42 I felt that the tires were suddenly biting the track again and that 2 lap nightmare ended.
Reik almost overtook me during that 2 laps, even though he drove along with damage...
q: 2nd / r: 2nd
Not a perfect race, but a great result and good fun.
The lapping was very smooth, even on the tight parts of the track
Thanks for racing and see you guys next time