wasn't really in shape......yesterday was the first day that i haven't temperature and i didn't touch a wheel from saturday due this flue......but it was really really a fun race yesterday i enjoy it a lot and for my point of view was really fair and fun the fights that i had with Olli and Nicolas.....
i'm a bit disapointed about my finish result ( i lost many time again for stupid things), but if i consider my situation than i must be very happy for that (i want always the best, like the other drivers here
, ehehehe
)......
Qualy: not bad, was near my PB (only 0.020 second for it) but i knew that i could do maybe an high 1.29.9xx and so beat my PB, but it didn't happen.....the time was finished.....
so i found that i wasn't so bad in the single lap, also after my forced holidays....but i knew that keep the concentration for few laps is not like an hour race!!!!
race: normal start for me.....for staying on the outside of T1 i went a bit wide but i hope that i didnt' create any problem (will watch better my replay
).....
after that i was in 6th position i think.....in some laps for the spins and accidents of the other drivers in front of me i was 4th, 3rd and for one lap also 2nd.....behind me Olli was really more fast, he was pushing, but i keep enough the concentration and so i was able to keep him behind for some laps....in lap 10 he overtook me on the final straight......
was really a nice overtake, because he surprised me a lot......on the straight i took the inside for not let pass him from that way....i knew that he was more fast on the straight so i was thinking that this was the only way for not let him do an easy pass.....i wanted to give him a bit of fight and fun, also if i knew that he was more fast.....but maybe i wasn't enough on the right, and he found a little spot for pass me from that way and when i saw him it was too much late for close him....after that i risk too much my brake (i miss my brake point for few meters, and so he passed me easily and i lost also another position for my wide.....
now i was 4th behind Olli and Nicolas........in the same lap in the double left corner T8-T9 i had also a big lag (i don't know if it happened only to me or also to others drivers) but i was lucky that i wasn't too much close to Nicolas and Olli and so i didn't hit them!!!!
after that i tried to keep close the gap with Nicolas and he spun 2 laps before my pit stop, so i earned again the 3rd position and also some second....
i did my pit stop and one lap later also Nicolas did it.....but for my surprise the 2 second that i had before the pit now were 13 second....
the pace of Nicolas and mine were really the same.....he usually gained a bit in the intermediate 1 and 2 and i gained in the 3rd.... but like happens to me in this last times i spun and after that i had also some problems at homes that made me loosing other times.....
after that Nicolas was behind me and he hit me in Turn 3 (lap 32)..... he was really fair because he wait me for regain my position (so i think that is not needing any penalties because accidents are normal and if one wait you is like a punish because he lost a lot of time), but i cut a corner after that accident and so i was forced to lift the gas and so he pass me....
now i was behind him with an equal pace and so my pressure was consistent behind him at ~ 1s of gap until lap 37.... i wanna try an attack soon as possible....i knew that i was more fast in the last part of the track before the final straight so i just tried to stay near him in the first 2 parts of the track for try an overtake in T1 like Ollie did on me, but i did a big error in T4-T5....
i opened the gas too much early and with not fresh tyres this cost me a spin and i broke the suspension and i lost the front wing....
in every case i was lucky because i had more than a minuts on the 5th (a good Alessio Lucchesi
) and i must do only 2 laps.....so i take my car at home in 4th position......
again i lost the podium in the last part of the race, but this time was only a mine (and also a bit of real life problems) fault so every one deserve their spot!!!! For what i saw from my point of view every fight that i had was really fair, fun and nice.
So congrats to all the finishers, congrats Maxim for the win, Olli for the 2nd and Nicolas for the 3rd, he really deserve it because he gave me a lot of fun!!!
congrats also to mine italians friends that finished the race!!!
thanks Prestogp, Mak corp and race departments for their work!!!! cu at melbourne....i hope to feel better for trying to do better on that , new for me, track!!!!
P.S.: for my race i haven't anything to say to the Race Director.....on this track imho there weren't spot where you can gain for cutting, and i think that i didn't cut in the whole race.....is also the track layout that from my point of view didn't invite you to cut!!!
Edit: i watched the replay and i saw that the car that i hit maybe a bit, in T1-T2 in lap 1 , from my replay was the McLaren of Anthony!!!
sry m8 if i did something to your car!!!