Div 1
What can I say...what a day...
All I can say is driving wearing two jumpers, and a blanket is not 100% fun.
I got one of those strange head colds so went to bed in the afternoon (had day off to have 2 teeth fillings) and got up around 7ish, watched some tv forced down a sandwich and logged in. Decided i was stupidly cold so dressed up and sat about staring at the screen like a small child looks at an ice-cream store...
anyway quali started, got 1st somehow so I thought hmm this will be fun least ill only get rear suspension damage into turn1
Race time, looking through set-ups decided that I was a plank and that all my testing had been done with hard front tyres, quick fix and loaded out.
Race went smoothly, I didn't push just kept a nice pace trying to lap same time. I came upon some back markers who gave way nicely though I must say a couple made life difficult!
When I came across Jim I locked a rear wheel and spun, lost some time but saw I was a good 10+ sec to 2nd. When I pitted I did a very nice thing for Janek, I stayed in 5th gear which makes ur speed limiter speed 80 instead of 60. Realised as I started engine up after mashing buttons to get some fuel in and thought oh *four letter word, begins with F*. Low and behold that smug satirical voice, stop and go...as i came out of the pit lane.
Pitted on next lap, but was more concerned about tyre temps as they cool badly with only one lap on them, thankfully it wasn't a problem. I came out in 4th, time and a Jordan I think were fighting, so I muscled past and set about thinking who the hell is this Janek guy (I was 100% sure Tim was in 2nd for 1st stint, so presumed Janek was running a 30/20 strategy). About lap 35 I realised he wasn't stopping, so picked up the lapping game. As I didn't have the mental capacity to run any faster I prayed he would have tyre trouble. I think his tyres went off a lot as on lap 50 I was up on him into t1. I missed 1st and went straight to neutral, managed somehow to save it as the auto-clutch kicked back in and thought Id just see what came. .4 off wasn't too bad. Shame there wasn't another lap
. It was mine to lose and I did!
I must say Congratulations to Janek(my spell check wants to call you Janet...) though as it was a solid, solid performance, well done man
And also a disappointment to Tim he was looking strong then just disappeared. ( ill read up on that later)
I didn't wait to see what happened, just logged out and collapsed to bed waking up every 2 hours covered in sweat. Crazy day... Today though , slight headache and feeling weak but otherwise 100%...
Ill see you all at Abu :jessica::jessica:
-Chris