ACC Super Trofeo @ Paul Ricard - Tue 23rd Jul 2019

[JussiS]

Despite the low turn out, it was a good exercice of consistency to try to minimize the gap during the whole race.

@JussiS forgot to ask you on TS: was I managing to catch you near the end or did you simply relaxed your rhythm since you had a nice margin? Congrats for a consistent win, and I guess all others too, as apart from a drivethrough, nobody had any spins or big mistakes

I was little bit tight on fuel so started to coast a bit. Also few little mistakes where some seconds were lost.

I guess you had less rear wing as you seemed to catch me all the time on long straight? Seemed to be ~0,5 seconds you catch me there but I think I was same amount quicker on the turns.. I had 14 (3 clicks from aggressive default) rear wing if I remember correctly. That was the most I dared to lower as I was making this change blind just before quali.

 

[Daniel Monteiro]

Paul Ricard definitely deserves more cars on it My least practiced track, but the more I drive it the more I like it!

My thoughts exactly! First time on this track and I though it would be a boring one but it quickly turned out to be one of my favourite. Or maybe it's just ACC

I was little bit tight on fuel so started to coast a bit. Also few little mistakes where some seconds were lost.

I guess you had less rear wing as you seemed to catch me all the time on long straight? Seemed to be ~0,5 seconds you catch me there but I think I was same amount quicker on the turns.. I had 14 (3 clicks from aggressive default) rear wing if I remember correctly. That was the most I dared to lower as I was making this change blind just before quali.

I can't say what wing setting I had, because I don't know I added one click (+0.1psi) to the front right tyre, other than that I was running default setup (is default the safe one or the aggressive one ??), and lowered the TC and ABS a couple of clicks.

The tank had 80 litres for the race so I guess I might have had a bit more fuel to spare and attack towards the end - I had 2 or 3 litres left.

I also decided to try braking a bit harder and later in a few corners in the last 10-15 laps, so that might also have helped, although I did feel that the tyres were suffering big time because of that, I would not have managed that pace for the whole race