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Chinese GP :Season 2: Toro Rosso.
After a lacklustre performance at Monza it was on to Shagnhai, and hopefully more points. Spent around half an hour in practice fine tuning the car, eventually putting in a 1'35.9 lap time. However i would not see the 35s again for the rest of this race weekend..
Qualifying
Session 1 got underway, and as usual i went out first, Ide out behind me, so i wouldnt have any problems on the outlap at least. Crossed the line to start my flying lap, no traffic and put in a solid 1.36'7 and then on my second run a 1.36'4 which saw me nicely into session 2.
Session 2 then got underway, i adjusted my setup slightly as i thought i need a bit more speed on the straights, this gave me a 1.36'3 which put me nicely in 7th but by the time the session got to the 2/3 mark i was 11th so i headed out onto the circuit and pushed out 2 good laps, the fastest being a 1.36'1 which saw me into session 3 as 10th fastest.
Session 3 would see me stay there, the car seemed to stop working and i could only manage a 1'37.4 and ended a disappointing session in 10th.
Race
Waiting for the lights to go out, i had the inside line and started planning a move past Webber and Alonso up the inside of turn 1. The lights went out and the traction control kicked in, the tyres biting the tarmac and i shot past Webber off the start line, then Alonso under braking the narrowley moved up past a few more cars including both Mclarens who ran wide and Barrichello who seemed to hit Fisichella. I took Fisi in turn 2 and from there battle would commence. For the duration of lap 1 and lap 2 i had a fairly consistent 1-1.5 second gap on Fisi, but onwards from that he was closing in, the gap getting down to 0.1 seconds at the end of the long straight and only getting as big as 8 tenths elsewhere. This was really putting my defensive driving skills to the test. Fisi, Alonso, Montoya, Webber and Trulli were all visible and were all very close, probably only 2 second between me in 5th and Trulli in 10th, one mistake would see it crumble. My team mate Speed had retired after crashing with Ide, so it was only me on the circuit to prove the STR's speed. On lap 7 the first pit stops happened, mostly from ahead of me so this saw me move up to 2nd temporarily, 17 seconds off of Massa. Lap 8 however was my stop, Fisi had stopped on lap 7 so a quick pit stop would prove to be vital, especially as Alonso was following me into the pits. The mechanics were ready, the car went up, in went the fuel, off came the tyres, it all went perfectly, down went the car and on the power! I came out the pits well ahead of Alonso and just ahead of Fisichella. By the end of lap 9 i was half a second ahead of Fisi and Alonso, i couldnt get ahead of Montoya or Raikkonen however as they came out from their stops, i was around 1.5 off of Raikkonen with Montoya another second clear of him. And so the defensive driving ensues once more as i blocked Fisichella and alonso round the circuit again like the pitstops never happened. Only this time it was for the last points paying position, 8th. Trulli and Webber had dropped off to around a second behind and Ralf Schumacher had joined them. On lap 15 it looked as though i had lost my point, Fisi moved up the inside of turn 1, but i held my speed and line on the outside and managed to stay level, alonso also trieto get past, but i held my line and passed them again on the inside of turn 2 to stay in 8th. Alonso passed Fisi and tried to pass me into turn 7 but he couldnt get past as i blocked him off, he briefly got past in the hairpin but the acceleration of the Toro Rosso edged him out. On the last lap the gap was 7 tenths back to Fisi and Alonso who were side by side, i ran wide into turn 1 but they couldnt decide who was going first and ended up having to slow down a lot more then normal allowing me to get ahead a bit more, eventually Alonso came out in 9th and gave chase but it was too late, i had over a second ont them and i was confident they wouldnt get past. I ran wide on the final turn however and Alonso and Fisi closed right up, but i blocked him and held on for 8th but only by 0.06 ahead of fisi who got 0.02 ahead of Alonso on the straight.
And so taking my points tally up to 11 with 2 rounds to go and STR have slapped an offer on the table for next season but im gonna hold out for a better offer.
, any tips? I'm a test driver for Aguri , and have one personal test win and already faile dthe aero test in bahrain , no I have a camber test in Sepang
and it sucks
