I ran 7 Soft-1 Med-7 Soft. The Zonda on Meds loses about a second per lap to Softs.
Well, my race today was marred by a very dirty driver. I started 6th, gained a place at T1, then lost that place to someone who shoved his way past me at the exit of T7. I accepted my loss with a grumble and carried on. I dropped to 7th, but jumped back up to 5th after going in too hot into T1:
The guy that stopped short of turning into me got a 3 second penalty for turning into the guy that followed my line (even though he recovered with no position drop). Oops.
On lap 6, I caught up to the guy who shoved past me on lap 1 after he flubbed the final chicane. I overtook him while he was ghosted, but he proceeded to run me wide at the final corner, sending me into the gravel and a spin. I was not amused, to say the least. I was lucky I only lost 2 places, but losing 14 seconds to a dirty driver is infuriating (especially when he got off without a penalty).
I carried on with my pit strategy, and on lap 12, I happened to catch up to the guy who spun me out (due to the latter having an excursion at T7). He tries to slam me off when I take the inside line at T5, which is when I finally lost my patience. I let him past at T6, then rammed him off at T7, sending him down to 11th. It costed me a 2 second penalty and a drop to 7th (which is where I finished), but it was a small price to pay compared to the risk of getting run off the road again. As for him, he clearly didn't learn his lesson, as he muscled his way past one more guy to take 10th.
Replay involving both incidents:
It's quite telling that the dirty driver was the only one to lose SR after the race.
I also took some pictures of my ride: