Decent weekend all-in-all.
Nations Round 6
Super Formula is not my best racing group, and oh god that turn 1!
On the first attempt I qualified P6 and started on Mediums with the intention of going 5M-6S-6S. I was a tiny bit off on my braking into turn 1 and gave the cars in front a bump.
Then the car behind me gave me a solid bump. The combined collisions led to the red barriers behind the chicane being pushed onto the track after turn 2...
And that was a bit of a nightmare. When I got around turn 2 there was a barrier that I couldn't avoid. The car got stuck on it and wouldn't go faster than 30-40mph. I eventually got off of it after receiving a solid punt to the side, sending me off onto the gravel. By then I was at the back of the grid.
I managed to work back up to P9 in the end.
On the second attempt I qualified P11. I tried to sneak around the outside of the chicane but it was still bumper car central, although this time I came out better off. I was fighting for P6 on a 1-stop strategy this time, but got a 2 second penalty at Lesmo 1 toward the end of the race. A German made a move I didn't expect and I squeezed him. That dropped me down a few positions.
I could have finished P8, but an Italian didn't take kindly to being overtaken near the end of the last lap and deliberately slammed into me at Parabolica to push me wide and regain the position.
P9, 106 points. Not enough to count towards my season and I couldn't see things getting better so I called it a day.
Manufacturers Round 6
This was a good one. I had to adjust my display settings though, couldn't see a damn thing through sector 1!
I got a "tow" from another BMW during qualifying after catching up with him during my first flying lap. He was much slower than me so I had to abort my second lap before turn 1, but the first lap was good enough for P4 so I was very happy.
I was a little sloppy during my first few laps, causing me to drop to P5. A Jaguar had pushed (quite literally upon watching the replay) his way up from P12 and was fighting with a Mercedes in front of me.
At the start of lap 5, the Jaguar was on the inside line going into turn 1 (or is that turn 2...?) so I braked into the normal line to go alongside him on the outside. The Jaguar then moved across in front of me without warning in the braking zone and I went up the back of him as there was nowhere for me to go.
. That led to him taking the Mercedes out as well, so I moved up to P3.
Thankfully, no penalty given for that. I pitted in at the end of lap 8 for fresh tyres and found I'd been doing well on the fuel saving. I had 24% left and the cars behind me were pitting with 1-15%.
I got a scare when I emerged though as a Toyota jumped me in the pits as he was on top of me on pit exit. I thought I had lost a position to someone who had managed to save a LOT of fuel, but then discovered he had forgotten to refuel when he went into the pit lane again on the next lap!
It was pretty much a straight drive to the end from there, sitting with a 4 second gap in front and behind me.
P3, 148 points. My highest yet, and a very healthy replacement to the 101 points I scored at Spa playing damage control.
On to the next ones! Hoping for a good result at Red Bull Ring.
I swear that I googled and I searched in this site itself. And after that I just used the empty reply box at the end of this thread. Funny 
Fortunately a McLaren had gone with us and he bumped me (accidentally) at the long blind left hander and by way of an apology gave me a slipstream on the next lap, putting me 5th.
