Qualifying: Extremely disappointing. First, for some reason I start the session with all aids ON, and it takes me a whole flying lap to realize this. My next two runs were spoiled either by traffic or incidents. I set my "safety lap" with only 3 minutes left in the session! Then I only had one run left and it was an OK lap, but could be A LOT better. Overall, I don't know how I ended up with the aids being on at the start of the session, but that cost me one VITAL run.
Race: Starting p4 from the grid, I knew I had to get past Andreas Nilsson and then concentrate on holding the pace of the Precisions. With a little bit of hard work, I was able to get past Nilsson in turn 2 at the start, in a very nice maneuver. I tried holding the pace of the Precisions for a few laps, but I saw that I was clearly no match for them. I literally went to cruise mode at like lap 10 and just tried to manage the gap behind me. The race got pretty boring from that point and I just brought the car home in 3rd, 30 seconds behind the Precisions and with a 12 second gap behind me. The truth is that I wasn't pushing to the maximum after lap 10, because there was no point. If I was on the edge for the whole gp (and risk spinning and ruining my chances of a podium), I could have finished only maybe 10-15 seconds behind Precision; but in the end, a third place is a third place, regardless of how far you finish off of the leader.
Overall: Third place is the maximum we could have achieved today. Next race is Valencia, which is a track I find very boring. We will try to get the best out of the car there as well.