Had some fun at RBR today (yes, it can happen). Normally a week with 7 races is a hefty race week for me, but now I could do 7 races in a day. So normally I can't really get into a rhythm (I only do 1 or 2 races at a time, with days in between).
This morning I had a 1:37:0 but I toned it down to 1:36:7 tonight. In all of my races I started in the top 5 of a full DR B lobby. First race was a P5 start, P5 finish. Not bad because I still had to get a feel for the RM tires. The second race I started P4, finished P2 just by trying to not get penalty's all the time like the people around me were getting.
In the 3rd race someone pushed me into the gravel at T4. Was just a racing incident, but ofcourse the car causing it didn't wait up. This was my only 'bad' finishing place of the day: P10.
Later I had two interesting races where I encountered the only dirty driver of the day. This guy looked slightly quicker, but made more track limit errors so I could keep up or sometimes overtake. The latter however was a risky undertaking. He tried to block and drive into me whenever he served a penalty and I didn't. At one point he was driving P3 and I was P4, both on soft tires. During the pitstops I saw that P2 was now on the mediums. So I tried to signal and bumpdraft the dirty guy ahead, so that we maybe could work together to both overtake P2. But he was having none of it, still defending very aggressively.
When P2 was serving a 1s penalty and P3 a 0.5s penalty, I overtook them both at the penalty line, going into the last lap. At that point Mr. Dirty was closer to the other guy and started battling ferociously with him. But ofcourse, he lost that battle too. I ended up 3 seconds ahead of them during 1 lap. Some people just don't watch beyond the next corner. Because of all this battling P1 finished a mile ahead of us, even with the slower tire strategy.
My last 2 races of the day I was driving for the win. In one race I was driving P1 at some point, with P2 coming closer. At the pitstops I saw that he was on the softs and had to go to the mediums. So my final stint was on the better tire, and I was 2 seconds ahead of P2 on mediums. I was relaxed and cruising somewhat, but suddenly I took T1 too tight and ended up with my nose to the inside wall
Could salvage a P4.
In the last race I was also fighting for the win. I was in P1. P2 was just behind me and pitted earlier / tried the undercut. When I pitted I examined the timing screen / track map to see if he was going to overtake me, only to see him going into the pits again.. he had changed to the same compound by mistake. Bummer for him. I won that race with 9 seconds to the nearest rival. A good moment to end racing for today. Maybe in the weekend some more action.
