Madrid saw my best ever qualifying session, p3 ahead of my teammate Alonso (mustard), Alain Prost (aug) and Webber (jb) and just off the pace of Vettel (Immortal) and Kimi (CB).
It was to be expected though, I finished p3 in Cape Ring, p3 in the Thursday practice race, and in the Sunday practice race I was P1 until Vettel, who started at the back and raced past 9 other drivers, brushed me and the rest of the field aside. That race saw Prost trying his dirty deeds that thoroughly annoyed me.
In the aborted race, I zoomed past Kimi on the back straight and into 2nd place and kept up with Vettel despite being bumped into by Prost... no surprise there though. I was surprised that the race was aborted because I saw that the car that didn't start properly did recover and a simple safety car procedure would have been more appropriate.
In the restart, I had a brilliant get away and was on the inside of both Vettel and Kimi but to avoid touching I backed off (alot of people like Prost should learn that if someone is in front by at least half a car length it is their corner, especially if you can't make the corner without hitting walls). Backing off allowed Webber to move into P3 with a very precise and clever move into the hairpin - and because I had backed off into that corner I didn't realize my brake balance reset itself because of the restart. Heading up the back straight and into the slow double left hander I locked up and crashed and caused a pile up - those caught up in it, like Scott Speed (Hugo), I'm sorry about that.
The race was full of incident thereafter and it was a huge disappointment to me, as I definitely had the pace for a podium, especially after I finished there at the Cape Ring grand prix and have slowly been improving.
6 minute Daytona Test Session - Fuel Depletion and Tyrewear On
I did a mini test at the next track just to get the brakes callibrated, and I managed a 1.22.711 after 3 laps. I fully expect Vettel to enter the 1.19s so there is alot of room for improvement.
