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Quali: 7th, Race: 2nd
This has...
Quali: 7th, Race: 2nd
This has been the only race this season that I wasn't starting driver of. After what we could call my fiasco in last two races we decided to give the responsibility to Karolis. But then again he was too careful that he lost as much time in battling as I did on Westhill with my two spins!
However here I am leaving from pits and once again I have to fight for position straight from pits, what a luck eh. It might look very aggressive, but believe me I was careful as hell this time. Pretty much using the gold rule, hold your line. Dennis won this little fight of ours. I was following him for something like 10 laps and was just getting my attack ready when he lost connection to server. After that I was lucky enough to see EER spin in front of me. We overtook City Liga Endu car for 2nd soon enough after that thru pits too. Then there's little fun part with Leo. You can also see some close calls with GT1 cars.
I am generally very annoyed how backmarkers have behaved this season. They usually hold the race line as if they're not in the way and it really takes some time to get in position to pass, which of course costs a lot of time. Here's an example how you basically don't loose any time and you let faster car thru. Then I'm showing my public apology to Conquest racing. I must have been a bit tired there and misjudged the situation, sorry guys. That moment gave us some damage which was costing us few tenths per lap.
After that is a little clip with one of those overly aggressive backmakers, so I was very aggressive in teaching him a lesson too. I bet he shit his pants there.
In my 3rd set of stints (always doing double stints) I ren into a nice fight for position. Its very nice to watch from car behind, but not so very much when you're loosing time because of it hehe. I of course don't mind them not giving me room to pass, as I probably wouldn't do anything different myself in that situation. City Liga came out as a winner that lap, but next lap I took corner a bit too fast and they were in front of me again and they were still battling, this time Raptors won.
You might wonder how am I passing them for a lap and suddenly after that I'm battling for position with same team. Well, after I finished with my stints our Chinese friend had slow pace because of lag issuas and Reno had his hardware issues. Then we had nobody to jump in the car (there you go a lap lost just like that) and thanks to the whole luck of this world I couldn't fell asleep from all the energy drinks I had that I was ready to jump in, from my bed, in my pajamas.
I passed City Liga Endu car, did my pit and had to pass them again (different strategy), but they made job easy on me by spinning.
So we got back from 5th back to 2nd thanks to our pace and finished there. Even without our little unlucky disconnect we still wouldn't be able to fight for victory as our setup was costing us 10 sec per stint. We had 1 wing too much in front which would cause ugly oversteer in the end of stints and slow times...
Anywaaay, everyone is very satisfied with podium finish in one of the most important races in LFS.Tags / Keywords:
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