10-07-2007, 11:15 PM
What hell of booooring race.
First of all, in Quali, I couldn't do any hotlap. Everybody was running wide or spinning near me, and consecuently I also ran wide and surely disturbed some people. An advice for ALL:
Try to do your first quali attempt at 85-90%. Do not go flat out in the first lap. If you do, you run wide, spin, disturb other. And that's a chain and no one can do a good lap, or even a sole lap. Do a first attempt at 85%-90%, then you have a time, continue a second lap without pitting, and go 90-95%. Next time you go on track, you know how your car behaves, you're accustomed to the Quali setup, and everything will be OK.
Well, going to the race: I did a good start and gained one position. After first lap, two cars touched and I was 5th. But in the hairpin Daniel pushed me in the rear and I spun, having to let pass the pack. I don't blame him, I have a very bad exit of that turn and I was very conservative. He expected that I was faster.
Then I had to recover places, and a few laps later I was 10th or 11th, and was after J Rocha. I got to him for the main straight, placed my car on draft, and just when I was about to move left to pass him... he lifted!!! Well, I don't know if he actually lifted or had a problem with the car, but he dropped 15km/h suddenly according to the replay and we crashed. Luckily for me, that happened BEFORE I moved left (which I was going to do just half a second later), or I'd spun and crashed as he did. But anyway, I got a bent front right suspension.
That was the end of my race. From then on, I just wanted to finish. But the damaged suspension led me to a few wide runs and more damages, and at the end I had a terribly ill-handling car that when people got nearer me I prefered just to go off-track to avoid danger for them.
A race to forget.
First of all, in Quali, I couldn't do any hotlap. Everybody was running wide or spinning near me, and consecuently I also ran wide and surely disturbed some people. An advice for ALL:
Try to do your first quali attempt at 85-90%. Do not go flat out in the first lap. If you do, you run wide, spin, disturb other. And that's a chain and no one can do a good lap, or even a sole lap. Do a first attempt at 85%-90%, then you have a time, continue a second lap without pitting, and go 90-95%. Next time you go on track, you know how your car behaves, you're accustomed to the Quali setup, and everything will be OK.
Well, going to the race: I did a good start and gained one position. After first lap, two cars touched and I was 5th. But in the hairpin Daniel pushed me in the rear and I spun, having to let pass the pack. I don't blame him, I have a very bad exit of that turn and I was very conservative. He expected that I was faster.
Then I had to recover places, and a few laps later I was 10th or 11th, and was after J Rocha. I got to him for the main straight, placed my car on draft, and just when I was about to move left to pass him... he lifted!!! Well, I don't know if he actually lifted or had a problem with the car, but he dropped 15km/h suddenly according to the replay and we crashed. Luckily for me, that happened BEFORE I moved left (which I was going to do just half a second later), or I'd spun and crashed as he did. But anyway, I got a bent front right suspension.
That was the end of my race. From then on, I just wanted to finish. But the damaged suspension led me to a few wide runs and more damages, and at the end I had a terribly ill-handling car that when people got nearer me I prefered just to go off-track to avoid danger for them.
A race to forget.