I got in my second race with the Lotus today at Road America. I started 13th in a grid of 19, my plan was to hang out in the back and not get together with anyone. Had a decent race and finished in 9th. I did learn something about the car, the deeper I got into the race the more different the car started to act. I've only practice with race fuel load and the car felt predictable and calm. Right about the half way mark I could start to feel little changes in the front end and how the car wanted to behave. By lap 18 the car had become a handful on corner exit, oversteer or understeer your choice. I collected my first 1x that lap, running wide out of T13a I hit the curbing at the top of the hill and throws me offline for T14 where I drop two wheels in the sand. The second 1x came on lap 20 same exact thing, carbon copy. So now I'm thinking that I've killed my tires and tried to focus on finishing the race and not collecting anymore 1x's. When I looked at my tires after the race the lowest was the FL at 86%, it wasn't my tires at all. My question, does fuel make that big of a difference in how this car handles or did I just give myself a mental block thinking that my tires were bad? I started the race with about 100 lbs/15.4 gals of fuel, and got the 5 lap warning with about 3 to go. Congrats on the win Stuart, your laps times were very tight.