Now this was a nice ending of a season!
Last race I made it to 5th position in the second division, so I was expected to be in the first one for todays race. What a difference... Where I was able to be some kind of competition in the second, I was just SO much behind speedwise here. Really unbelievable how some of you get those car's around the tracks. Respect!
Anyway, the race. I have been VERY busy lately so I had little to no time for practice. Only made my first laps on the track friday, so started a bit early with the practice. Made it to a 2.11.5xx as a personal best with qualy setup, so went to qualy with the knowledge I would be in the back of the grid.
Made a 2.11.008 in qualy, so improved my PB with almost half a second, and therefore was pleased with the result.
The race.
Started as 20th out of 22. Had a good formation lap, nothing strange happend, but was a bit late at the start. First couple of laps (first 18 orso) we had a real Division 2 fight
4 of us who came from div2 where having a blast at the back, changing postions every so many corners. Thanks for that guys, it was a fair and good fight! Had 1 little contact, with no big consequences.
Was planning to do a double stop, but when the time came to do the stop, my tires where good enough to continue a bit more, and changed the strategy to a single stop. Had made 2 presets, 1 with and 1 without fuel, so there was no reason not to do so. When I finaly decided to go in for the stop, I forgot to call out the pitcrew
. Had to wait for those slow suckers, and when they finaly where done refueling me, and changing the tires, I noticed Jadran had pulled of so far, I could never reach him anymore (Jadran wanted to do a single stop as well). Started to do the second stint, knowing that it would be one big feast with those aliens moving in on me from behind
Had some decent practice in letting people pass in a decent way, which I think I managed in a decent way.
Then suddenly, I noticed Wayne Hammond had dropped out, which made me step up a place. In the end, Jadran made an extra stop as well, so I was able to pass him also when he was in the pit. Passed Kimmo as well when he had a pit stop, with around 17 seconds to go. I had 17 seconds between me and Kimmo, so I figured that should be doable till the end. 2 laps later, the gap was down to 9 seconds, so I soon realized I could never hold him off, and let him go by.
In the end, I made it to the 16th place, so if there would have been another round, I would have stayed in Division1, which gave me a very proud feeling.
All in all, I want to thank everyone for their attendance. This was my first official RD League I organized with Remco, and I will NEVER forget it. It was SO great to be able to do this, and to race it myself. I have learned SO much from you guys in terms of the racing. so a real
big thank you all for that!!!
I hope all had as much fun driving here, as I had organizing and driving in it! It was REALLY great! Can't wait till the next season!