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When green is all there is to be. It could make you wonder why? But, why wonder, why wonder? Not sure if I'll be doing another daily C this week or not. Missed a few either cause I fell asleep and missed the entry window, been too sleepy to race, or the princess had me on furniture duty. Went in with the '17 Lexus with my fluffy bunny slippers on, and managed to cut some more time off qualy. Still 10s away from where I would like, but it did put me starting P4/18 on a grid of DR/Cs with a couple of DR/Bs and four of us DR/Ds. That meant I had 14 people behind me wanting to slam, crush, slide, or otherwise decimate my race....or so the paranoid voice in my head was saying......
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Race starts and the dash for crash was on! When the race started I had been promoted to P3. T1 was fairly orderly and I was lucky to have a patient guy behind me. He nearly had an opportunity at the exit to T2, but I managed to get moving and in position just in time
. I was short shifting like a champ and the Lexus was dancing through the corners. The guy behind me was a steady 2s behind me the whole way, occasionally closing to 1s. I managed to stay on track for the whole first lap!
Second lap, P1&2 pitted, and for a brief second I was in P1!!!! but the actual P1 came out of the pits ahead of me, so P2 for me.. happy with that! The guy behind me didn't pit either. I was still short shifting, and i think my tyres were starting to fade just a little. The gear recommendations were lower than they were first lap. I stuck with is and managed to hang in there. I had to pull a couple of Hail Marys to stay on the track, but I think my focus and tyres were stating to show. I was really sloppy going through the chicane leading on to the beginning of the Nord.
The guy behind me was catching and leading up to the Karrusell the gap had dropped to 0.5s. I managed to stay ahead through the Karrusell, but somewhere along the way he had caught me, I made a mess of one bit and spent some time on the grass. I managed to coax the car back on to the track. He had overlap, so I braked to let him slip through and off he went while I fought with the tyres. I managed to start closing the gap, and the next guy was closing the gap on me. By the time I hit the main strait the gap behind had shrunk from 7s to 2s. By the time I got to Hohenrain I was about 1s behind the guy in front. I finished 0.5s behind in P3, but when they showed the results, it was P4
. I had no penalties, so I don't know where the extra car came from, I'm assuming it was the car that vanished at the start?
SR back up to 99 and DR went up a hair over 1k. I was pretty happy with that .. I started P3 one time some time ago and ended up P18 after T1 of the first lap!!! Another day above DR 1
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Race starts and the dash for crash was on! When the race started I had been promoted to P3. T1 was fairly orderly and I was lucky to have a patient guy behind me. He nearly had an opportunity at the exit to T2, but I managed to get moving and in position just in time
Second lap, P1&2 pitted, and for a brief second I was in P1!!!! but the actual P1 came out of the pits ahead of me, so P2 for me.. happy with that! The guy behind me didn't pit either. I was still short shifting, and i think my tyres were starting to fade just a little. The gear recommendations were lower than they were first lap. I stuck with is and managed to hang in there. I had to pull a couple of Hail Marys to stay on the track, but I think my focus and tyres were stating to show. I was really sloppy going through the chicane leading on to the beginning of the Nord.
The guy behind me was catching and leading up to the Karrusell the gap had dropped to 0.5s. I managed to stay ahead through the Karrusell, but somewhere along the way he had caught me, I made a mess of one bit and spent some time on the grass. I managed to coax the car back on to the track. He had overlap, so I braked to let him slip through and off he went while I fought with the tyres. I managed to start closing the gap, and the next guy was closing the gap on me. By the time I hit the main strait the gap behind had shrunk from 7s to 2s. By the time I got to Hohenrain I was about 1s behind the guy in front. I finished 0.5s behind in P3, but when they showed the results, it was P4
SR back up to 99 and DR went up a hair over 1k. I was pretty happy with that .. I started P3 one time some time ago and ended up P18 after T1 of the first lap!!! Another day above DR 1