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by dede » Sun Sep 27, 2009 9:08 pm
My comments:
I didn't manage to find a safe fast line during practice, so I think that my race was a bit compromised. Qualify lap was good, but it was few hundredths slower than Tijny. I wondered if to continue attacking the pole position, but then I decided to stop because that could've taken 3-4 more laps in order to get 1 clean lap again.
I qualified 4th, right behind Tijny. My kers system seemed to work better than his (:P), but I didn't manage to get close enough in first curve. I seemed to have a good gap on drivers behind, but then in next straight zionssi catched me thanks his empty tank. I kept inner line in next curve, but then he came out faster in next straight. I decided to keep inner line again, but he hit my car from the outside. I lost quite a lot of time there, and people behind catched/passed me too. Luckily I managed to get positions back and Mike Nike gave room nicely.
Three seconds behind Tijny at that point were quite bad. I had to push to the limit, but it took a while before I found a fast line. I started to gain something back, but I didn't have any constancy in laptimes, so the gap remained about the same. During last laps of first stint I finally found some constancy and pace, but I had some troubles with Storm: after lapping him, I made a mistake and he passed again. He gave way nicely for a second time, and I made another mistake. At that point I had 7% fuel remaining and I was right next to the pitlane entry. I decided to stop right in that lap in order to get rid of Storm (or more likely "to reset my brain"). That naturally was a hard decision, because then Tijny had two laps with low fuel more than me. I started pushing really hard, hoping for some mistakes by him, but after his pit the gap was about the same as two laps before. This made me try harder, because apparently I was driving faster than him in those moments. He didn't make any serious mistakes and he kept a good pace in last stint, though, so I couldn't really catch him at all.
Fuel tactic seemed to be perfect (2% extra fuel at finishline), but it's funny to know that I decided to take a lower amount - and maybe also a bit random amount (since I stopped two laps before predictions).
Anyway, I should really try something different in next races. I can't lose because of battles in the first laps.
. Btw google is your friend
