Man, this event was interesting!!!!
Quali: 6th
I had medium quali, but I think everyone had the same thing, so...
Race: 3rd
When I saw wet rack and dry forecast I immediately thought the track would dry out, so I put the dry setup with wet tyres. And when I saw the track was 50% wet, I thought "WRONG CHOICE!!!!".
Ok, let try to run 100% brake pressure in the race with harder setup and all, lets see.
Awfull start, lost 2 positions and went into T2 very carefully when I saw the mess. Couldn't get a clean T2 and got a little bump. Spun and went to last place.
In the chicane before the straight, another mess and I won 1 or 2 positions. Now my surprises started... The 1st one was noticing that I had a great race pace comparing to the other guys. the 2nd one was when I saw Tim in 9th right in front of me.
What happened, Tim? Were you in dry tyres? Well, I passed him pretty easily, what's definately intriguing...
Then I started to shorten the gap to the 2 group (from 3rd to 7th) and fastly I was right behing everyone. Started to find some space to pass each one, but everyone was in a good pace, so it was very hard.
The first one I passed I think was Stefan when he made a mistake, but he was very fast also and we had a good battle. Stefan, in the chicane, I saw you were too fast, so I pulled the car to the right so you could pass through the left and straight through the chicane. Thx for avoiding me, very smart move. We could have done a strong crash there.
So I went hunting the others and passed one and another. Then I was behing Chris Rogerson but made a mistake and I think Stefan, that has passed all the other like me, passed me and I was 6th or 5th again.
Did my pitstop and got back in 5th, but someone in front of me haven't stopped yet. When he stopped, I was 4th, right behind Chris again.
From this point on we had a great battle, during lots of laps. I tried to pass him in some points, but couldn't manage and Chris was not making big mistakes. When he did a small mistake, I did too. Veru nice battle and made my race!!! Thx for that Chris!!!
Finally I managed to pass Chris, can't even remeber where. LOL. And then I started to increase the gap for a very nice 3rd place.
Grats to Gaetan for the 1st place and for the champ podium. Grats to João, always a pleasure to race with you, my friend. Very nice wet pace and very regular. Grats for that.
And huge grats to Tim for the champ. Thx a lot for letting us compete a little without you in front!!!
Thx a lot RD for this league. Very nice and I learnt a lot with this FWD car, my first FWD ever.
Thx Bram, Yves and all the staff that put an effort here.
Thx alot to all the drivers who made this a great League. I'm already looking forward to the next touring champ.
Cya, folks.