Feel free to discuss the race in this thread, as long as it is within the forum rules.
"Well, I wasn't expecting to drive but only Petar was avaiable to race today, sadly the rest of the guys were busy or had problems. Did 1h of testing so I exected nothing with my pace.
Q1 was quite good considering that I did 0 qualy attempts before the session, I think it was a 23.5. My last attempt was ruined by Ivar, who leave the pitlane with the session over, I don't know what's the point of it, but well, that's life.
The race start was pretty clean I think, I kind of survived and earned 1 or 2 positions, so it was good. I was following Yannick quite easily, and towards the end of my stint I catched JES. My second stint was quite awful, some terrible initial laps with lots of mistakes on braking. At some point I lost the car out of the second chicane, and ended in the wall. I didn't stall the car, but I had no motivation to finish the race being last without any chance.
Thanks to Stephane for the setup and Petar for the last minute testing, I really needed it. Congrats to Morgan, Bono and Jeffrey for the podium, you guys had a very good pace, same for Baldi.
I guess I'm not going to drive again, but if for some reason I come back, I hope I have a bit more time to test!
Cya"
Q1: 23.3, was surprised to make it in the top 10
Q2: 23.8, too cautious, P7 after Philipp decided to remove his Q2 laptime
Race:
I took a careful start, P8 after the first lap. I knew that I would most likely struggle in the 1st stint against the 3 stoppers around me. My pace was not great either, took some time to settle in.
In the 2nd and 3rd stints I drove quite well in my opinion, whenever a 3 stopper caught me I would let them go to avoid losing any time while defending pointlessly.
5th place in the end, decent result. Not sure if I'll drive any more races this year, it was nice to drive again after a 7 race hiatus though.
Does it become silly here again? Just because of a contact you dont get always a penalty.
It's racing under pressure, who does there always the right thing?
And what is the right thing?
I don't understand why Morgan gets always into the spotlight when there is a touch or a movement..Look at the rest of the field and not always on the championship contenders.
They are in the championship fight so let them just race..nothing happened today and no one got a disadvantage.
I really dont get it, maybe its because that Morgan brings a bad reputation of ATR or so, but beeing always against him is really not understandable.
@ Damian: And Morgan is definitely not the only one to blame, i think you miss there some points when you have watched the race, but seems you are also just fixing on that to bring some negative influence here.
Btw, there was no contact.
Does it become silly here again? Just because of a contact you dont get always a penalty.
It's racing under pressure, who does there always the right thing?
And what is the right thing?
I don't understand why Morgan gets always into the spotlight when there is a touch or a movement..Look at the rest of the field and not always on the championship contenders.
They are in the championship fight so let them just race..nothing happened today and no one got a disadvantage.
I really dont get it, maybe its because that Morgan brings a bad reputation of ATR or so, but beeing always against him is really not understandable.
@ Damian: And Morgan is definitely not the only one to blame, i think you miss there some points when you have watched the race, but seems you are also just fixing on that to bring some negative influence here.
Btw, there was no contact.