Congratulations Tim, Reik and David!
Q: 16. Not pb
R: 11
Soft/soft. W 8/58. 58-50-50 fuel. Very weak ARB + springs and same wheel angles as in Reik's setup.
First stint up to lap 7 was perfect. Great racing close to Peter, Nicolai, Nicolas and Kurt until I made a fool of myself and went inside Kurt in turn 2 where there was no room. All about that in the incident thread. Sorry guys
Rejoined the track after waiting, 17th place behind Nicolai who fortunately kept his position but lost a lot of time because of me
Now I was hunted by Henrik. I went on in low spirit but the surrounding of all cars and exitement made me slowly feel a little better again.
Lap 14 into pit in 15th place. Out again in 16th.
I was alone with Peter far in the distance. Half a lap away or so.
Stint two begun like I was on practice session alone. On L25 tires are going off and laptimes are high. No car in sight for the whole stint.
Lap 27, I let Tim lap me pretty smoothly, just lost a fraction of timespace myself.
Pitsop on lap 28. In as 14th out as 14th.
An engine is smoking rather a lot in front of me as I go out again. I thougt that will be one of my victims on last stint
Later I would be proven wrong. It was Vince
Now I have Nicolas in front of me, hurrah. He is not the one smoking. The last stint will be “fun, fun, fun until my father takes the T-bird away”. Thanks for being there Nicolas. I have also Vince and Chirlie further in front. A wonderful sight for a poor lonely simracer. New tires and fueled up for the stint, jiiihaaa
On lap 32 I let David go by in the twists near before the small bridge. I lost some to Nicolas but the pass was super safe
Lap 34, I can see Nicolas tires are definitely dead and mine feels fine, soon I will go in for a kill
Lap 35 I was right about Nicolas tires. He goes straight off in T1 and it is an easy overtake, almost unfair. Nicolas was fast in the twisty parts and I owned the high speed corners. He came close again in those slow sections, but overtaking is almost impossible there.
Lap 38, I can see Chirlie in front of me. I must give all I have left to come closer. Engineer says I don’t have to save fuel. On lap 42 Chirlie gets a wild oversteer in turn one, something must have been broken on his car. A bit disappointing to overtake a stationary car like that. But I’m glad, usually he is much faster than me.
Thanks Nicolai, RD and all drivers!
Suzuka is one of my favourite tracks, cu there boys