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- foolsgold74
Sacked off work early to do the first slot in EMEA.
B/S room, Q5, P3 (podium) for 86pts, a CRB and a big bunch of DR I can fritter away on dailies later!
5th on the grid was ok seeing as I had no slipstream. Came out of the pits in 3rd but 2nd spun on T1 and I couldn't get close enough to the first car to get a slip. Had run 1,37.6 in practice but only managed 1,38.4 in qualy. Something within 2 tenths of my PB would have been pole.
Decided to go 9M/11S as I prefer to be quick later in the race and if you stay clean early you can just about stay in touch on the slower tyres.
Bit of swapping places in the first stint but ran comfortably in 6th and at the end of lap 9 had a perfect slipstream so went one more for an even 10/10 strategy. Who knows if that was the right call but I was pleased with the final result regardless.
Came out 6th but 2 still had to pit so that became 4th. 3rd place was a 911 on Mediums and I got him within 4 laps or so. Into 3rd and had 5 laps to make up about 6 seconds to P2.
P2 seemed to be close to P1 but never close enough to fight and slow them both down. He seemed to be struggling with tyres in the last 2 laps and by the end I was just over 1 second off P2.
Clean race all round though.
Winner was a Merc, P2 was a 911. Both seemed to be better on fuel than my Aston. Although I spent most of the first stint following a group of 3 and coasting into corners I reckon I lost about 4 seconds in the pits compared to P2 and P1. Certainly the Porsche seemed to be really good on fuel.
But I was driving a V12 so can't exactly complain
Actually ended up being relatively smooth around Fuji, even through the demented toddler's scribble that is sector 3
Might see if I can repeat that with a big boot of gr2 turbo in Daily C.
B/S room, Q5, P3 (podium) for 86pts, a CRB and a big bunch of DR I can fritter away on dailies later!
5th on the grid was ok seeing as I had no slipstream. Came out of the pits in 3rd but 2nd spun on T1 and I couldn't get close enough to the first car to get a slip. Had run 1,37.6 in practice but only managed 1,38.4 in qualy. Something within 2 tenths of my PB would have been pole.
Decided to go 9M/11S as I prefer to be quick later in the race and if you stay clean early you can just about stay in touch on the slower tyres.
Bit of swapping places in the first stint but ran comfortably in 6th and at the end of lap 9 had a perfect slipstream so went one more for an even 10/10 strategy. Who knows if that was the right call but I was pleased with the final result regardless.
Came out 6th but 2 still had to pit so that became 4th. 3rd place was a 911 on Mediums and I got him within 4 laps or so. Into 3rd and had 5 laps to make up about 6 seconds to P2.
P2 seemed to be close to P1 but never close enough to fight and slow them both down. He seemed to be struggling with tyres in the last 2 laps and by the end I was just over 1 second off P2.
Clean race all round though.
Winner was a Merc, P2 was a 911. Both seemed to be better on fuel than my Aston. Although I spent most of the first stint following a group of 3 and coasting into corners I reckon I lost about 4 seconds in the pits compared to P2 and P1. Certainly the Porsche seemed to be really good on fuel.
But I was driving a V12 so can't exactly complain
Actually ended up being relatively smooth around Fuji, even through the demented toddler's scribble that is sector 3
Might see if I can repeat that with a big boot of gr2 turbo in Daily C.