Well that was an interesting and frustrating race. It was an interesting race because i had to play catch up a couple of times and frustrating because i made a couple of stupid mistakes to put myself there.
For this season i signed with Ferrari, and i raced in the final EU GT1 slot.
Qualifying wasn't the best and a i qualified down in P12.
Then during the opening laps of the race, laps 2 & 3, i went wide at T1 on both laps, which resulted me losing a place to the same Renault on both laps, but on both occasions i overtook the Renault again. Then at the start of lap 7 i lost a place to a Mazda which was on softs, i did manage to hold them up for 1 lap before they managed to overtake me.
Then at the end of lap 10 i was on the tail of 2 Porsche's and all 3 of us entered the pits to put on softs. Then when we exited the pits, the Porsche that was in front of me in P11 got a 3 second penalty, so they quit the race going into T1. Then i caught up to a Porsche, who was fighting with the Mazda who was now on mediums, then at the start of lap 12, i gained a place after the Porsche in P6 spun at T1.
Then towards the end of lap 12, the Mazda, Porsche and myself were bunched together, and the Porsche managed to make a move on the Mazda, then on lap 13, i managed to overtake the Mazda, by making a move up the inside going into Dunlop Curve. Towards the end of lap 13 i gained another position after a Corvette served a penalty, and i was now in P7.
Unfortunately, on lap 15, i ran slightly wide at Dunlop curve, and my tyres touched the grass which caused me to spin out, so i dropped all the way down to P12. So i spent the rest of the race catching up to the pack that was a couple of seconds down the road. I gained 1 position on lap 17, after the Mazda got pushed into the gravel at Dunlop curve by a Subaru, then i gained another position on the last lap, after the Citroen got a poor exit from degna 2, which allowed me to have the inside line going into the hairpin.
Then i almost gained another place at the end of the final lap when me and the Subaru went side by side into the final chicane, but unfortunately they had the inside line, so they closed the door going into the final part of the chicane. In the end i finished P10.
