I ran a 3 stop, mostly by accident. I pitted after 22 mins on softs, planning another 22ish on softs and then finish the race on the SMs. It sorta worked but as I was thinking about when to take my second stop I spun out into the pitlane coming out of the final corner. No problem I thought, I will just put the SMs on and run them a few minutes longer than planned........"ding" oh holy ****balls, 15 minutes to go and my 3rd set of softs accidentally fitted to the car. At this point
@NinjaEvo has just passed me but is on old softs or SMs and is slower, I am slightly ahead of
@Doomstorm16 and with lots of pace. I slowly reeled Ninja in for a lap or two and then he made a mistake and let me past. I was back in anger mode and was pushing hard to build a gap over both Ninja and Doom for about 8 - 10 laps, watching on the mini-map as Ninja slowly fell back towards doom before pitting. At this point I had figured out that I wasn't going to build enough time over Doom, I had used 10 of my 15 minutes and had less than 15 seconds to play with, fine, run a couple more laps and finish on the SMs for a comfortable fifth.
The very next lap I repeated my neat spin into the pits trick (I am convinced that its the most efficient pit entry here
) this time I managed to get the SMs on, out in 5th, well behind doom but a good 20 seconds ahead of Ninja with only 3 minutes or so are left to go. Easy right?
Well, no, not quite. First lap on the SMs I spin in the exact same fashion, I manage to avoid entering the pits this time but hit the pit wall pretty hard with my left hand rear wheel, stopped dead and then the damage meant I was crabbing really really badly down the straight at about 50, it clears as I head into the first corner and by this point Ninja is right on me. A couple of corners later and he passed me after I made a mistake at the same corner that he did earlier on when I passed him almost ironic.
So, I turned a comfortably 4th into a messy 6th, not a good race all in all.
Morale of the story: stop crashing!
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