Pre-qualifying went well, I thought I'd need to match or beat my PB of 36.5 to get through to grid one and managed to put a 36.1 on the board with my second run to make the G1 race for the first time this year. Definitely makes up for Bahrain where I really should have qualified, but messed my fast lap up.
The race start was a mess for me. I was a little too eager with the burnouts and had to swerve onto the grass to avoid a contact, this meant I needed to parallel park back in my grid slot, a little embarrassing :$ After that I was slow with the lights as I hadn't realised they'd come up as quickly as they did but managed to get away clean. Due to the slow start I was running at the back into T1.
The first few laps were very busy and I was mostly concentrating on keeping my car out of an incident rather than picking up places. I'd started on the softs and in retrospect I'd have been better off with the hards. I was fighting with Jackson for a bunch of laps which was fun but my tyres were totally shredded within about 8 laps.
My second stint was ran on the hard compound. I'd set a target of L32 pre race to do my final stint on the softs, but because of my poor management of the first set, these were pretty slow by time I got back to the pits to change them.
Last stint was on soft tyres again and was going fine until I noticed some smoke from the rear, I turned the engine limiter down hoping I could nurse it to the end but it gave out on lap 37, I think I covered enough laps to classify. Mechanical reliability seems to be a big issue for me so far this year with 2 break failures and now an engine.
Oh and apologies to Ben Tusting if my system lock up had any effect on him when he came to lap me. Something popped up in the background from my anti virus which locked my rFactor window for a few seconds until I cleared it.
*Edit* Just checked and looks as if I was half a lap short of being awarded the 10