Race report:
Qualified in 5th position, with the setup of Knut. A setup were you could go into oversteer the moment you wanted, but as we all know, this car is very hard to control passing the limit.
The time was a 1.36.xxx
Not bad, but if the boys keep up the pace in front of me when it's racing time, it won't be that good either...
Time to roll the CSL to the start line. The car was in good shape and i felt comfortable on the grid, as i sat on the inside for the first turn. Kevin was on 4th but on the outside. 100 liters of fuel in the tank, i planned to only change tyres.
Lights start counting... Green!
Great start and jumped over Kevin before the start of the turn and settled myself behind Ben.
But a few turns later Kevin already found the rythm and started hunting my behind, and me, still not being a good driver under pressure, i run a bit wide at the chicane... He outbraked me and could pas fluidly.
But i was right on him on the straight, slipstreaming back next to him on the inside at the end of the start/finish straight, but yet again he could outbrake me and defend his position.
Back on fifth and after going wide some turns later, in the fast righthander, even on sixth, when Stuart could pass me... Common Bert, keep the level up like in qualifying! I did and when the battle in front started with Ben and Stuart i set the fastest lap, lap 4 i think, for now. On that moment Stuart overtook Ben on the straight, like some others, because he had a major spin coming out the chicane.
And some turns later he went wide and i could easily make the pass... I think damage was to big for him because it was quite an impact.
So back on 5th now it was time to really start the race. Lap after lap the race went on, but i was still losing time, 4 secs a lap to the ones in front of me. When i came to lap 18 i wanted to go pitting on lap 19, but the strategy needed to change suddenly... At the end of lap 17, beginning of 18th, i totally missed the braking point after the straight start/finish and flew into the barrier... Result: left front totally messed up and splitter gone... So I had to come in.
When I finally got her there and let the mechanics figure it all out Nr. 1, Paulo, comes in too, lapping me in pit!
Now some tyre changes and 20 secs later Nr. 3 and 4, Knut and Kevin, come in too! My god, losing time here...
The second stint was a pretty boring one cause i was 2 laps down from 4th place and 1 lap in front of the 6th one. But i had one stop/go though, for being to wildly at entering the chicane, hehe.
After that i could keep the times up but had some spins, and with no damage what so ever, except for some bodyparts dented, i could finish the race.
Great times and something different from the races i had here on RD... It felled much more realistic, maybe because of the pitstop.
Anyway, TX
Stuart and
RD for another great relaxing evening filled with alot of heat and focus, haha! Keep it up!:victory:
