Seriously though, for our North American racers, this race will be 1hr later as they have not changed their clocks yet.
It was a great race yesterday in the end. I came to the event with to little practice on a new track for me. I knew I can do a fast lap, if I get it right, but was sooo inconsistent. 1 lap setup was really good and I did a great lap, suprised by 1 place, even though it was just by 0.002s. Then the race started and I was quite nurvous (P1 made it even worse), feared my inconsistency would let me down and that I don't do something awful and take somebody out with me Few laps were ok, but then I made a mistake (a bit too much oversteer with race setup), and fell back to P5. Mistake from a guy in P4 got me a place higher, and then we had great battles with Philipp for P3. My setup allowed me to pull out 0.5s in last two corners, so start/finish straight seemed the best place to get P3. After Philipps mistake I went by on start/finish straight, but soon gave it back. In the end P4, but a really great race! Can't wait for next one, see you all there! p.s.: can anyone upload a replay maybe? Thanks!
Stream VOD With a little running and struggling to string together consistent laps in practice, I thought this race would be tough. Textures for this track seemed quite blinding in VR but once out on track it was fine. I started my qually laps and spun on my first try.... i then regrouped and tried again. First flying lap on the second run, spun AGAIN! I was running out of time!! Third try and I just had to throw everything at it!! I saw the sectors were green all the way, knew it would be close for pole in what was only 2 clean laps. But 0.002s? WOW! Starting the race I knew it would be hard to stay under someone's rear wing through the blind crests. I tried my best to stay within a second of @Matej Dakskobler and the ever watching @Kostas Kantzouras behind meant I couldn't relax. I knew the pace I had to stick to and did my best to stay there. It was a pity seeing Matej spin at T1 I just hoped that his car span away and I didn't collect him. I then got my head down and pushed to try and break the tow behind. I put in too much fuel, but better to have too much than too little. Tried my best to stay in the 1:21:XX laptime range because I wanted to make sure I had a gap if Matej made it through the pack again. Keeping concentration and rhythm was hard, the bumps were brutal and my wrists were killing me!! In the end I was pulling away a little from Kostas but I still didn't lift off until the last lap, didn't want to make a costly mistake. Exhausted after that race, but I feel I was gifted that win. I am sure the rest of the season will be just as competative! Detroit next.... at least there are no gravel traps... but will have lots of walls to collide with instead!!
Oh yeah, good one. I saw in my mirror that your car was fast in the last sector, but also a handful. The mistake I made also caused by that, because I wanted to go also a bit faster through there, but I missed the first apex and went too wide at the exit. I made a little video for anyone who is interested I had a good race car, which was stable and reliable. Not good enough for one lap, but allowed my to climb up some positions, as others hit trouble. But I was never a real danger for Kostas or even Neil. Congrats to you, see you soon.
