Great race! Even though I wasn't that fond of the track and couldn't find the necessary speed to get to the pro race automatically. So I had to go for rookie, being the 1st to be cut from the qualifying (19th pos).
Rookie race was good, set the pole with a time of sth like 39.7xx and the whole race was quite easy, got a decent lead over Fernando in the beginning, didn't make mistakes and just carried on to the end.
Pro race was just brilliant. Even though I forgot to set fuel for warmup - had to go with 100% and just tried to get to grips with the track. Everyone passed me and I wasn't worried about fuel strategy as I had done a local run before, sort of a qualifying test, so I had calculated everything beforehand.
Qualifying then. Did my best, starting with quite a lot of fuel and ended up with just the amount I had predicted and on 16th position, just in front of Pingu and with 1% more fuel than him I think. Perfect! Maybe I had hoped for a bit higher starting position, but I didn't think much about it, everything was working out as planned so I just took it the way it was.
Race. First lap, Pingu overtakes me with quite a kamizase move, but no complaints this time. I sort of did the same to him later on (maybe even on the same lap, don't remember). Was running around 14th-15th in the beginning, some black cars were putting pressure on me, but it was still all good. Some mistakes here and there and I actually thought I was losing it, but then I settled down on 14th in the middle of the 1st stint after some events and hoped I could make up positions after my pitstop.
At the end of 1st stint I caught Mike Nike, who had just exited from refueling. I was faster than him so I did quite a normal overtaking move, I suppose, he didn't fight back too much either (understandably). I lost my rhythm, then pitted after some guys in front of me and came out, running 10th, which was very surprising.
So I thought that if I could hold on to it until the finish arrives, I've done a good job, since I was just so slow in Weekly Wank and thought a top10 finish would've been great. But it was going to be even better! Mostly so because I had still some drivers in front of me who had not pitted, and could gain 1-2 positions from that. I was quite low on fuel during the 2nd stint so could attack quite much.
Started driving some 'qualifying laps' (well, qualifying lap for me anyway). And thought I was putting some serious pressure on Mister Pom, but he said his drive onto the grass was due to lag. Well, whatever. Didn't care about the reasons, but I had just gained 7th positon and was VERY happy!
In the end, I found Lirarn ahead of me, maybe he made a mistake, I don't know. Also tried to catch him but it wasn't to be cause race was over soon and I had already had such a nice drive anyway. Also, fuel strategy worked perfectly, having like 2-3% left in the end so all in all a wonderful race, best result in this league so far.. on a track I thought was too difficult for me. Happy!
