What a blast, that was.
Missed qualy and then had some PC issues and grey join button again after I had a crash in warm-up.
Thanks that you restarted for me, but that got a bit messy. Sorry I caused that.
As I had no qualy I had to start from 21st at the back of the GTE pack. I was very careful with overtaking and waited for the Start/Finish line to avoid a penalty.
Into T4 I turned in on 2 GTE's and had minor contact. I am very sorry for that. even with all virtual mirrors visibilty is poor and the GTE's were all over the place. I let a cars width space, but there were two, which I couldnt see.
After that I rushed through the GTE's all very nice, but I was already 18 seconds behind the leader. Rene seemed to really struggle in the rain, which allowed my to catch up very fast. Had some great action with
@Gijs van Elderen. I was quicker, but you cant really go off line as it was still a bit damp and he was strong in traffic.
Then I figured out it is 40min instead of 20min (started with 75L of fuel)
![Whistling :whistling: :whistling:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Had to stop early and went super save and took 75L and fresh tyres (the old once were still ok, but didn't cost any extra time). After my stop I really had to push, because Gijs could have saved at least 5 to 10 seconds with a better calculated fuel stop.
After my stop I had a lot of traffic and had to overtake some LMP1's, which were still on their first stint. Unfortunately Gijs had a problem in the pits, so I finished 7 seconds ahead of Rene, who gained some time with a better strategy.
That was really a great race and really great behaviour on track from the GTE's as well as the LMP1's was a real joy to drive and never thought I could gain so much in the wet. Otherwise it would have been much more difficult.
I am just uploading a highlights video. Really nice to watch all the action and cars going side by side
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