I wasnt happy with my quallyfying – I was 4/10 off of my PB, but still P5 in the end.
The start was pretty good, as no one tried any “moves” into the first corner and I maintained my position. Then there was an opportunity to pass Melim on the outside of Turn 4 and I made it, but he touched my rear right wheel and I had some suspension damage from that (but bad things happen). Then I were fighting with him for the next 3 corners and I backed down in turn 8. In turn 9 then I had massive understeering on my car, which probably came from that suspension damage and was driving over the curb and lost some speed. Then everybody passed me. In the last corner Emre Uysal crashed into my side, with an very optimistic move and my side pod were also damaged, from that on my engine were heating up massively and I had to go down into boost 1 for the rest of the race… really sad… I watched the Broadcast after the race and Dennis Hirrle said, I didn’t practice a lot in race fuel probably. True I didnt
practice to stick with boost 1
After my first stop, which was 9 seconds I was behind Ralf Gauss and I was overtaking him in turn 4, the same move I did in first lap on Melim, but Ralf decided to not prepare for the corner really, just stay in the middle of it and I didn’t expect him and didn’t see him there and that’s why it looked really bad on the broadcast, as we collided and he has gone of track. But if you look out of my cockpit view, you see that he was in a kind of dead angle, so I wasn’t able to see him there and of course didn’t expect such a move from him on bad tyres.
For the rest of the race I was fighting with 2 guys and in the last lap, I wanted to overtake to get P9 I guess and then my engine was smoking as we were going into turn 2 and I needed to slow down and didn’t manage to go for the finish line. It can just become better in the next race. So far cu in Canada.