Q: Very normal q lap for me (~6 tenths off pb) considering by how massively off I was on this track on hotlaps in general. Still only p6 even with 2 faster guys unfortuntaly missing today.
R: Same story like almost every race so far. Bad first stint and almost unrealistic second stint
First off I did take a setup which would help with a mid-race shower by beeing a bit faster on this conditions and a bit safer in general.
This was clearly a bad idea, like in Silverstone :facepalm
After a tight start with passing Reik and beeing repassed in a nice move by him a couple of laps later, I did try to chase Jim and him for some laps (lol "Jim & him" sounds like a name for a bad tv series...).
Jim had a slip-up on the fast chicane at some point which helped me pass him there for p5.
Afterwards I had a free track to try to close the gap to Reik until the pitstops came, but I did just not drive well enough, also beeing angry about my stupid setup change messing up with the balance into some particular corners.
When Reik pitted I've decided to just start some angry risky pushing, seeing that I had enough of a gap behind me to risk it.
For some reason the car went so much faster now by throwing it around some corners that it overcame the not optimal balance this way.
I've also had a prefect pit-entry this time
Funny enough all this pushing led to beeing in front of Reik after the pits and even quite close to Sean, that I thought "why in the world was I not pushing earlier?"
On the second stint I simply started throwing around my car from the get go and it worked well, even closing the gap to Sean a bit to about 1 second over the finish line, which was hillarious considering he was 0,5s to 1s faster than me on every single qualy-lap
-> q: 6th / r: 4th
But well done to Sean who never did any mistakes from what I could see and drove this one very well; also well done to all the others
Shame I simply coudn't get what I was doing wrong on the qualy-laps, or this could have been a bit better overall.
Cu guys next time and btw: Tim wake the h*** up!