Not raced for about 4 months until this week (1 race the other night at Algarve to warm up for this) so not too disappointed with tonight's effort, especially considering my engine was slow and at 77% as soon as I joined the grid, then my car got damaged and engine degraded even more to about 72% in the chaos that happened right in front of me as we crossed the start line on the rolling start. Not sure what happened there but guess someone deserves a wrap across the knuckles for something :/
I think a couple of you around me might have noticed that all race my poor battered car was not so quick in a straight line, and I guess due to the knocks it was not doing so well at going round that the final parabolic corner, at least it wasn't behaving as it had done in any of the practice laps I did :S
There was some fun racing, Ludowic, I take my hat off to you mate - you were very patient and clever and never touched me once in about 5 or 6 serious passing attempts into T1 ... its quite ironic too that it was you who was stuck behind me, just mention my name to your brother, as last time I raced here he kept referring to me as "the wall" in his post race report
Anyhows ... was not totally impressed with the track choice (its much better as a motorbike circuit) but had some nice battles nevertheless ... a few knocks but to be expected, then there was a slightly weird almost poltergeist moment where my car seemed to take on a life of its own and I spun out sideways (I will blame a mental blip on my part and the rain for this, but seriously wondered whether there might have been some strange lag effect of the server causing a pushing effect on my car??) ... whatever, I lost myself a lot of time and a couple of places recovering, and dented my car a little more
Finished 11th, which was not a bad result all things considered.
Thanks chaps ... nice racing with yas, despite the pretty horrible conditions and a totally knackered car