Hi, first of all let me apologise for my nickname, this is an old RD forum account I have. I'm Tiago Órfão.
Being unfamiliar to GTR Evo league racing, I must say this was a challenging first experience and I found myself where I wasn't expecting to be (top 10), which made me pretty happy. Managed to get a good time in qualifying, best I've done all week of practice, and started the race from 8th.
Those first few laps we were all pretty close and it got scary in the final corner in lap 2(?) but I managed to stay out of trouble. The whole changeable weather is something I don't deal with at all (I'm mostly an iRacer) but with the help of my teammate I made the right choice to wait as long as I could before pitting and avoided a last minute call to put wet tyres and stayed on the drying track to put a new set of slicks later.
Made two big mistakes, but the consequences were not too bad and in the final minutes I managed to get back some positions to finish 7th, which I think is a great result, considering I had very low expectations and I'm glad I could help ABRacing get a solid points finish again.
Let me take this opportunity to apologise for my touch in the back of David Clark's car. I wasn't even very close, but his braking point after the long straight caught me completely off guard, and I hit his car, luckily with no consequences for both of us. We had some pretty intense battle at the end, was really feeling the pressure in the last laps. It was fun.
Congratulations to the podium, and thanks to the organization for the experience.
Being unfamiliar to GTR Evo league racing, I must say this was a challenging first experience and I found myself where I wasn't expecting to be (top 10), which made me pretty happy. Managed to get a good time in qualifying, best I've done all week of practice, and started the race from 8th.
Those first few laps we were all pretty close and it got scary in the final corner in lap 2(?) but I managed to stay out of trouble. The whole changeable weather is something I don't deal with at all (I'm mostly an iRacer) but with the help of my teammate I made the right choice to wait as long as I could before pitting and avoided a last minute call to put wet tyres and stayed on the drying track to put a new set of slicks later.
Made two big mistakes, but the consequences were not too bad and in the final minutes I managed to get back some positions to finish 7th, which I think is a great result, considering I had very low expectations and I'm glad I could help ABRacing get a solid points finish again.
Let me take this opportunity to apologise for my touch in the back of David Clark's car. I wasn't even very close, but his braking point after the long straight caught me completely off guard, and I hit his car, luckily with no consequences for both of us. We had some pretty intense battle at the end, was really feeling the pressure in the last laps. It was fun.
Congratulations to the podium, and thanks to the organization for the experience.