I was aiming for a podium finish, but things didn't really go as planned.
In the rolling start lap, i got hit from behind at the hairpin, don't know who it was, but luckily there wasn't any damage to my car.
I the 1st lap J made an error in the hairpin, so i was able to pass him, the for a lap or 5-6 is stayed about 3sec behind DNRT, then he started going faster and i started making little errors
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i was 12 sec behind i think at lap 18 and then saw that my fuel consumption was much higher then last week, (i drove a diff setup then) so i went in to the pit early (Lap 19).
I had some damage the slowed me down about 1- 2 sec a lap. With 30 laps to go that would be 30 -60 sec that i would loose so i told the crew they could fix it.
when i pulled out of the pit, i noticed something strange, i thougt my Force feedback had an error (it sometimes does give error) so i pressed FFB button, thinking everything was ok, i raced back onto the track, when i started braking for T1, my car started to go to the right, i couldn't hold it, and went over the pit exit lines (<===ADMIN).
apperently my crew decided the would fix the damage, then took out a sledge hammer and see who could hit hardest on my right front wheel.
it had about 20° of negative camber. i ,was unable to control that car and had to go in again to the pit.
At the 1st stop i refilled my car up to 95% since in 20 laps i used about 63% fuel.
then all of a sudden my car started an eco firendly drive; and started consuming less, strange things happened there today.
after a while i managed to catch up with the front again (going into the pit twice in to laps to rapair damage is not good if you try to get a podium finish)
I was pushing hard and i made a mistake, i missed my entry point of the hairpin and had to do a 3 point turn; Xtain passed me in this process, so i had to chase him down, when i was gaining on him, i saw that he hit another car and stopped at the inside of the hairpin, i went round the outside when i tried to steer into the next corner i felt a big bang, and hit the outside wall.
I thought Xtain was standing still with his nose against the wall so i wasn't expecting him there.
(to take the inside of that corner is not really a good point to pass, and doing it at the same speed you would normally take that corner would be very optimistic
I had bad damage to my front left and was trying to see if i could continue, i saw that i only lost about 1 sec a lap so no problem for me, until i saw the temps in that tire, it was red glowing hot on the outside; i was driving on that part alone, in the meanwhile X was gaining on me, so i decided to go into the pit, about 20 sec after i decided to do that, i got hit from behind at exactly the same corner, i had to take that turn really slow (tire gave a much grip as vaseline) and x didn't really see how slow i was, it was a small racing incident, but i went into the wall again, ruining the handeling of my care completely, i hit the wall 3 time i think in the next 100m, so went into the pit.
when i came out again, one of my wheels wasn't aligned AGAIN.
but this time it was less of a problem. i had to whange tires and was on cold ones when i came out and 4IK passed me, a few laps later i was gaining speed again and starting to gain on him.
When coming out of T1 in lap 44 (my lap 44 his 45 i think) i was about 50m behind him.
he went left much earlier then me, I braked a bit earlier then i normally would because i knew i was very fast in those 2 turns, but when i came to my real braking point, i noticed that he was much slower then i expected, (he hit the wall comming out of T1 and hit the wall twice on the other side, and started braking early for T2, and i was already looking at the apex of T2, and since he moved over so early to the left he was out of my line of sight (still on my screen, but not where i was looking at)) i slammed on the brakes, tried to dive on the inside, but that didn't work and i hit him from behind. I was shocked a t what happened because i was so far behind i didn't think that i would have could him within the next 2-3 turns.
I didn't say sorry, and should have done that.
so sorry man, but like i said, i would hit you again if the situation was just the same, i still believe that at the point i can see that your are much slower then normally that i could still have avoided you.
then i just kept tring to push as much as i could, but the race didn't end as i planned it would.
I HATE MY PITCREW,
and thanks for a lovely season guys, it was really nice racing. i hope i can compete in the summer events, but again as every year, i'll be living in th swedish forrest in the summer, so no electicity for me for about 6 weeks