Tricky, very very tricky.. That flood was.. a bit overkill but that's the weather sometime sin real life too..
Qualy: 3rd to last, knocked .8 from PB and lost 7 tenths in that lap. Steeve had to suffer, he managed to almost catch me on first hotlap and those 7 tenths over the lap and he was impeded. Sorry, i couldn't do anything, team boss shouted just "push, push"
Race: 13th. It was really eventful but i keep it short:
Started with 88 liters. Change after practice laps to 2 stopper. Lap 6/7 was right time to change to wets, overshot pitbox, lost 4 seconds. Then the flood.. almost undriveable but managed to keep myself out of trouble. That lasted... i don't know how many laps when it started to show signs of drying, dialed 9 liters less fuel, 28 minutes left and another perfect timing. Track had nice damp groove and i started catching people! Me! Catching others! And passing them! (albeit, they were off track at the time
) That felt good but then others found the line and i lost couple of places. Then came Vincenco.. Poor Vince, had to just drive behind as i was hogging the dry line 100%. Had to really be careful to show what driving line i was taking very very early, he had to drive on wet part: no chance of braking that thing. He passed me in the last lap when i finally pushed long in to the wet part n Lesmo, we went side be side but he did one of the best brakings ever seen, on damp, outbraking me on dry.. Kudos, i saw the car twitching, that must've felt scary.
That lapping was in the last and just before.. i don't know, i have to hear from Vince was that fair. 3 cars coming, behind each other and i noticed Vince was trying to be in their tow and slip past... But i managed to just break between lappers and him in T1. I don't know if he expected that but i didn't feel any touches. If it was legal move, it was one of the best i've ever done. I had to split the trio, sorry about that but i was fully on racing and if would've let all of you pass me at the same time, i could've not recover. So went for the gap in Parabolica, there was plenty of space but i impeded someone (guestimated 0.4s). Let the lapper pass pretty late in the straight and slotted back to my original place. Feedback on that whole situation is required, i want to hear how it was from other cars.
That when i'm short, ugh?
EDIT Checked replay, that was totally legal, didn't impede, didn't block.. That must've hurt so much that Vince did that overtake on the same lap
Shorter gearing worked again, people had real troubles catching me on straights until it was too late. Topped at 276km/h.