Had a mixed evening of racing. Managed to do a 1:06.5 in race mode in one of the practice sessions. Was leading that session all the way up until the end where Rich decided to beat it, but it gave me a lot of confidence.
Quali 1: Put in a decent lap but got distracted by others, ended up in 6th. However the race was restarted due to a problem with Safety Car. Had to re-qualify and again got distracted by someone talking which caused me to spin it. Ended up in 14th.
Race 1: Got a great run out of the last corner but had to lift off over the line to avoid overtaking too early. Got squeezed into turn 1 and braked too late. Ended up in the wall. Lap 2, I hit a spinning Stuart and lost my front wing. Pitted but had a few more incidents pushing too hard trying to catch up. Think I finished in about 12th place.
Quali 2: Put in a decent lap to take 7th on the grid.
Race 2: Got a good start and was up to 3rd place early on. Made a mistake which caused some damage to suspension. Martin caught me up and attacked me into a corner and got past. I tried to nip back on the inside but hit his rear. Martin ran wide off the track so I slowed up to allow him back through and once he was a through a McLaren came past and moved onto my line about 100 metres before the braking zone with not much distance between the cars. He then braked straight away and I had nowhere to go but into the back of him. Ended up in the gravel with my suspension completely damaged. He drove on whilst I lost 3 places. A few laps later I lost my front wing whilst struggling to keep the car straight. and spent the last 4 laps trying to drive it around the track as I missed the pitlane the first 2 times around (one of which Martin hit me, but I had an understeering car and couldn't get out of your way quick enough so sorry about that). Finished in 10th but I know it should of been so much more.
Thanks to Ivo and RD for this.