Well after a night's sleep I think I have calmed down enough to post
Qually - 30th (last)
Got a minidump switching sessions from practise to qually, game took ages to load and I didn't have time to set a lap. So started last.
Race 1 - 8th
My aim was to finish 8th, I knew I had the pace but finding clean passes and avoiding lap 1 carnage would be difficult for sure. I arrived into Eau Rouge in the brace position, but exited with only suspension damage and 6 places gained, up to 24th. With a few more collisions and people running wide, by lap 1 I was in a reasonable 18th position. Once Yuri made an error to, I jumped to 17th and we both had the pace to contend up front so we made our way through the field nicely, jumping to P11 and P12. I jumped into the pits to fix my suspension damage, which took an alarmingly long time as my screen said the stop would take 8 seconds, not the eventual 16 it did take!!
I had clean air and put the hammer down and lapped consistently in the 2:32's and came out only one place down on where I was before I stopped. I passed Barry again and then Kasper and was in 11th place. With Yuri then crashing, I jumped to 10th and when I closed in and passed Jadran, I was 9th.
I saw Wesley and Michael ahead of me and I thought I could catch them, I pushed hard and closed the gap from 8 seconds to 4seconds. I was losing hope of 8th until Ryan had to stop again, and 8th was mine. I still closed in on Michael, Leonardo and Wesley, but didn't have enough time to get close enough to them, so finished 8th.
Race 2 - DNF
Starting from P1 I got a good start for a TDi and held the lead from Wesley until he squeezed underneath me half way round the lap. I kept in his tail and he out braked himself at the Bus-stop handing me 1st. I didn't look in my mirrors for 2 more laps and surprised myself by doing 2 2:31 laptime's. With the battle for P2 very close, I could gain and hold a 3 second lead to Oliver, Henrik, David, Wesley and Leonardo.
I thought Christmas had came early as I still lead after the pitstops, and the chasing group had diminished down to the 2 quickest guys in the field - David and Henrik. Henrik was flying and caught me in about 3 laps and passed me when my computer froze for a few seconds, but he very sportingly let me through again :thumb:
I defended cleanly and not violently and thankfully Henrik didn't force a move that couldn't be made. With me slowing us down quite badly, David caught us and it turned into a great 3 way fight for the lead. Into the last lap I led but we were covered by less than a second. David has passed both of us and I thought I'd just settle for 3rd and let Henrik passed as I didn't want to risk my podium place. But as I have had no luck at all in sim-racing, I disconnected with about 5 corners to go. Not very happy at all!
Thanks to all I had good battles with, and thanks to RD and Michael :thumb:
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