) I managed to elbow me back to the front in the Porsche Curves.)
See you on the next one lads.
The Race Fuel app and Crew Chief both indicated that I would need a splash and dash at the end so I decided to pit 15 minutes from the end to give me time to make up time lost. But as all other Abarths made it to the end I might have been a bit over cautious. 
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Yeah have right at with your celebrationsIt was a great race with lots of action and also because it felt so satisfying to overtake Carsten in my crabwalking shithouse twice in this race
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Hi David,
No problem, Omar. I had a look at the replay and I had Ernie overtaking me on the left and you just behind me on the right.Pretty intense race with interesting battles, though not necessarily close ones.
I hadn't time to read the forum in the afternoon so it was a complete surprise to me that the schedule had changed and was back to normal (at least for the race start hour).
Managed to get an interesting spot on the grid (midfield? Someone pinch me to see if this is true!) and made a good start gaining a couple of spots. I noticed that the race start is one of my strong points, I always manage to get some advantage in one way or another.
I especially enjoyed the first two or three laps where the battle was close and fierce, really curious to see the replay (haven't done it yet) because there was a moment on the Mulsanne straight where we were three wide with a fiat and I'm sure that will make for a great photo.
Unfortunately in all the chaos I managed to bump @Douglas Aird , in a way that I have to yet understand. I thought I left space enough but we were three wide in a tight spot. Sorry for hijacking yours and mine race
This led me to having to battle for the back spots but it was enjoyable anyway: the rest of the race was spent trying to keep up with @Dzul Raul's pace but while I managed to get some advantage through Mulsanne and Indianapolis, he was blazing fast in the last two chicanes and always got away with little to no time lost. Great driving mate!
I made some errors but less critical than usual and this reflected on the consistency stat that has been one of my best figures (let's not talk about the near-miss episode with @Kek700 Ernie, I surely did not expect the crabwalking box to have to brake so much earlier than what I usually did, and I almost rear ended him entering the Ford chicanes).
I feared the moment in which I would've had to stop because I hadn't time to practice neither stopping at the right place nor getting into the pit lane without losing too much time, plus the last time a pitstop was involved my team was on strike and no one presented himself to change my tires and refuel and I had to leave the race.
This time luckily everything went well (paying your team does lead to great reasults)! I initially planned to refuel 25 L just in case, but as I heard someone on the pre-race chit chat saying that we would have needed a full tank (which I started with) plus 10 L, I decided to lower that amount to 20 L while driving in the pitlane. However that proved to be just over the needed amount and I had to lift and coast in the last two laps because I was worried about not having enough fuel to reach the end of the race. This allowed @davejevons to get close but not enough to be really dangerous if I managed not to make any error, which I did.
I don't know how you guy manage to consume such a little amount of fuel per laps..
All in all, I'm satisfied, I got to know this track on which I already raced in the past arcade flying visits but never fully made it mine as I didn't like the twisty sections before and after Mulsanne, but I now learned to enjoy them a lot, and I also was able like usual to shave off some time from my PB during the race.
Thanks @HF2000 Han for organising and cheers for your deserved win, I don't know how @Allan Ramsbottom managed to get so close to you in a Mazda, his pace has been really outstanding (as usual, I should add), cheers to the other podium finishers and see you on track next week!
I'd made a mess of the previous corners and I struggled through the Porsche section at the best of times in the Abarth. I definitely didn't want to cause contact while we were on the edge of grip through there so I was about ready to yield and wait for my straight line pace on the Mulsanne, but the Mazda held back at the exact moment I was expecting to see it breeze past into the next apex.
I think I remember this - were you on the outside coming into the first right-hander of the Porsche turns? I was bricking it at this point
I had a few battles through that section but that's the memory that sticks out, it was thrilling stuff from my perspective so thanks for the action. Apologies if I was a bit wild through those corners, my composure is improving but there's still some learning to do when taking my crabwalking shitbox wheel-to-wheel against a real car
Hi Dave, just wanted to add my general input to this, but it's not aimed at any specific person or incident:
I'm guilty of causing a fair few accidents on RD races over the last few months and I'm always mortified and straight onto the push-to-talk with apologies. BUT - as racing enthusiasts we all know that there's a potential to cause accidents without realising it was our own fault, and if anyone feels like I've hurt their race, please call me out on voice chat or elsewhere and I'll drop everything to apologise and pull over, it's only fair. I don't think I caused any incidents in this race, but if anyone has a different experience, please feel free to call BS. The last thing I want to do is leave someone feeling like I've wrecked their evening without a care in the world.
I think I'm lucky - in all the RD races I've had I've only ever felt like someone might have bent the Golden Rule once, but then talking to the other driver after that race it became clear that there was a netcode/latency issue in AMS2 with no-one to blame, and all was well. I'm aware that more egregious incidents have affected others though, which is why I felt the need to make the above point.
The one moment I remember last night was in the melee at turn 2-3, which I believe started in the midfield and caught pretty much everyone. Colin and I rather hilariously ploughed head-on into one another while trying to symmetrically U-turn from either side of the track. At the time I laughed it off and checked the minimap to ensure we both pulled away at the same time, but I've just read that Colin eventually had to fall back due to issues - Colin mate if you had trouble as a result of our synchronised swimming moment I am so sorry! Likewise to everyone caught in the mess at the start - if any of that was caused by me taking drastic avoiding action over the kerbs at T3 I apologise.
Thankfully this is all justifying my imminent decision to spend lots of money on more screens
You did give me a small tap to let me know you were coming through but not enough to disturb me. I had given up the corner to you already on the way in which is probably why I slowed early (and being careful on cold tyres). I didn't really fight any of the Abarths (apart from trying to keep close to Danny for a tow) on the basis that they would be stopping twice, which turned out not to be the case for most.
