A simply
fantastic event for me despite some minor grinds.
I've treated quali as just more practice as I haven't worked out any braking point on softs, driving for about an hour straight on hard right till Q started. That meant me starting from around the back of the pack, as expected
.
A few cars overslept in front of me on the starting line and I got passed a few and got passed by a few at the same time. Unfortunately I was completely unprepared for braking on everything cold and driving on the inside line in T1, so I overshot it and just aimed at the biggest gap to avoid hitting anyone. Someone did touch me, but luckily it was just a small contact. I rejoined around 28th and, quite surprised, started to pass a few cars. Wanted to catch up Tomasz, seeing him not far in front of me, but on the braking to T1 on lap 2 or 3 Can just plowed my car off the road, sending me way onto the infield. Admittedly I did get angry, but hopefully we will stop getting into those situations with Can, it's getting a bit frustrating at times, let's just get back to our usual dicing
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The contact sent me further down the leaderboard, I think I was even 30th for a brief moment. Luckily I've managed to climb back and spend most of the race with Valerio somewhere on the horizon. That allowed me to witness first hand his reaction to a distraction he mentioned - I was stunned to see him just crashing into the tyres in such peculiar place, handing me his position.
Earlier on I had me some rough dicing with Ozan, but although we were both on the edge a few times nothing bad happened (just some turning in virtually welded by the doors a few times). Rubbin' is racin'
. Finally managed to pull away - but it was so sudden when Ozan vanished from my mirror I was admant I'm getting a disco and almost flipped out.
All in all a great race, no tragic mistakes this time around and a solid
P14 with Adam not too far ahead. Also the M6 managed it's hards very nicely, I barely felt a reduction of grip towards the end. Good times.
Thanks to all and see you again soon!