Hi all, I'm Ricardo Castro Ledo from ABRacing.
Here is my race recap:
"I haven't really time to practice for this one, I have important exams next week so I couldn't practice like I wanted. I had to learn the track because I bought it for this race, but not a difficult track at all.
I found immediately a good pace here, I don't have experience with the McLaren so I just tried to find a good balance with the car and I haven't tried to have the most performant setup that I could.
Luckily I had a really good pace even if I didn't know how will be my opponents so my objectif was the top 10 because the team needed points.
So during the day of the race I just practiced 20 minutes before race and I had my first problems, FPS was really low and unstable, unfortunately it was worst in race...
I was confident for qualify, best lap on practice before was just a 13.1, knowing that I had the pace to do at least 12.9 (even if I never made it but it was pretty obvious I could do that) so I was confident.
Qualify:
During the outlap I cut the line of pit, black flag, I had to reset the car, 1 lap wasted...
So I just had one lap, I made it very coutious during the lap, not really agressive, was on a high 13.1 low 13.2 but I made a half spin on last curve who make me lost 1 tenth because the exit was bad.
13.363 not that bad but could be better.
I'm sure with one more lap I could do pole but don't worry, 4th on grid is really good.
Race:
Just before the race Joao said me that the objective is the points so we had to take 0 risk.
I had no idea of the method to start without cluch pedal with the McLaren so I made like with the F1, unfortunately it didn't work and made a half spin, lost one position, I was very cautious so I losted an other position.
My FPS haven't help me, ridiculously low during the begining (and during the race but it was a bit better after firsts laps), I was seeing a group of 4 drivers was escaping so I wanted to pass Angelo but made a mistake and losted all my confidence, Joao was asking me what was happening because I had a great pace on practice, the only explication I have it's the low FPS and some connection problems began to appear...
I losted one more position because of a mistake and after I was just waiting on 6th position because I was seeing a good battle for 4th position and I wasn't enough confident because of all my problems to fight with them so I was waiting to a opportunity to pass them if they made mistakes. I was planning to go on fight on last 5 minutes when...
Disconnected... Great! Finished something like 25th
Congratulation to all, to Roland, the podium it was fun despite everything!
Sincerely I was more disappointed for the team than for me, even if I had the pace to fight with Roland but with the race circumstance at top 5 will be great! Mainly when the level was so high!
I'm also disappointed for the team because it was good points for standings, congratz to Joao for his great result knowing that we was sick and he haven't really practiced for this one because he couldn't, with practice I'm sure we could be on top 5.
I hope ABRacing will rebound on STC Black Cup, I'm sure!
We had a horrible season with bad luck in all races, I'm sure ABRacing could fight for better than a top 10 but nothing help us this season...
Well done to ineX team for championship, you were awesome! So see you all!"
Sorry for my english.