wow... just WOW! that was a "one in a million absolutely everything went right"-race, that won't be repeated so fast. With the expected rain I decided not to choose a topspeed setup but a laptime setup in order to have sheer laptime speed. I mean... what do I care from 25th on the grid?
Starting on wet tyres (learned from the Spa desaster
) it seemed to be pretty dry, but at the 1/2 formation lap dark clouds came across the track and I felt like "yeeha". Got a great start and immediately run in "aggressive mode" in order to make up places quick and don't lose too much time on the leaders. when I was around 6th place, the margin between the leader and me was already over 30 seconds and i never thought I could get the chance to fight for the victory.
but things went very well and my wet tyres lasted even better, so that i could totally close the gap to P1 until he pitted. I stayed out for two more laps, just to watch what the weather decides to do. after some blue sky the dark clouds came back and David told me, that the rain will be really heavy (dunno where he's got that from?). Anyway, wet tyres were again the choice to make and surprisingly I even stayed in front after the stop
from that on the gap was getting bigger and bigger to the other drivers and i could go from "aggressive" to "90% risk cruising mode" for the last 30 minutes. Though, I had a coming together with a backmarker approaching the chicanes at the end of the lap, but he was moving over into my "outbraking line" and there was already a decent overlap, so this time I can't be blamed for that but still feel sorry
one last shocking moment on my way to the last lap, only having 7.4 litres left in my tank... but the shock was very short because i had a one minute advantage and could easily save fuel on the last lap.
as I said... absolute perfect and a great delight after last week's desaster
Congratulations to the other podium drivers and of course to David, who made nothing less than a GREAT team result stick!