rF2 - Rouen Les Essarts - EVE F3 - Round 5 - SRO

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Nov 29, 2020 at 4:43 AM
Posted By Jos Ogos

If the race at Kyalami was epic and intense, yesterday's race at Rouen was unbelievable. The 45 min three-way fight with @Johnny Gutierrez and @Gert-Jan Van Osch was unnerving. Real shame that @Caitlin Penny, who had practice times that would have granted her a place in the fight, was struggling with rF2 and couldn't qualify with the subsequent involvement in the accident with @Ken Jagger. Next time Caitlin.
The draft in these cars gives almost a guarantee of being hooked together barring a major incident or mistake for the whole race. It was clear this would be the case from very early in the race for the three of us. Other than the incident between Johnny and Gert-Jan, we did a great job not to crash against each other considering how close we were racing (three-wide very frequently!).
I was trying, although not very consistently, to team up with Gert-Jan first and then with Johnny as soon as the other was left a bit behind to see if we could break free and reduce the fight to a two-way battle that would be more easily handled in the last laps but to no avail. The lack of coordination with Johnny, after Gert-Jan spin, kept us relatively slow and Gert-Jan did a great job to catch up with us again (Fantastic job there!).
With the three-way fight resumed, anything could happen. Time and the likelihood of 19 or 20 laps were on the wire. Almost impossible to calculate which lap would be the last one and, therefore, what (if you could reasonably think of a strategy for the last turns!?) to do to improve your 1/3 chances of success! Studying each other wasn't easy although I had worked out that a situation where you happen to leave Scierie in second place pretty close to the car in front, would give a greater chance of ending in P1 at the end of the race... Now, how the hell you could engineer that with so much randomness!? The only thing I could think was to stay on the right on the long straight after Gresil... And then, reacting to whatever the situation was passed Scierie... I hit the brakes too late to keep control of the outcome of any planned strategy. Could barely keep control of the car... But, by pure chance, I ended in the exact position I wanted to be. Johnny overtook me but didn't get enough advantage to reduce the draft that would catapult me to P1 before the end of the lap and Gert-Jan, who had worked out a strategy to take Scieri wide open in order to close on us on the last straight, was far enough behind to have time to catch on us by the end of the lap...
Anyone could have won the race. It was a great drive from Johnny and Gert-Jan. Both very deserving to win the race. Congratulations on such a fantastic drive.
Thanks to Ken for setting up the server and see you at Osterreichring in two weeks!
Here, the link to the proper vintage take of the race:

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rF2 - Rouen Les Essarts - EVE F3 - Round 5 - SRO