Was a really fun racing day yesterday, annoying but fun. I felt I had pretty good pace with a setup I hadn't used before but braking and low speed cornering at t2 and t3 hurt me a little bit. Had a pretty decent start and took the lead for a couple of seconds lol then I realised I was racing next to Immortal and tried too hard to cover my line and outbraked myself...
Held on and managed to stay within 2s of immortal and was catching him during the 2nd stint; then we pitted and immortal gained some time with his better pit box position, which kind of annoyed me a little bit. But then I caught up behind stiggy and arty, was paranoid I'd lose time and outbraked myself overtaking arty and went straight into the gravel, which cost me my shot at immortal. It was great to race with him at the limit for so long and we were matching sector times mostly up to that point, however his consistency was impressive throughout the race. Then I was in a bit more traffic and fighting with aug and agro.
Was a lot of fun racing with them too and we had some good wheel to wheel battles, just unfortunate myself and agro never had the chance to fight it out at the end because he spun on the astro turf on t2 when we were fighting for the place; was looking forward to battling it out!
One thing I've learned from this championship is the importance of strategy and tyre management, I'm still getting used to it and I'll take it with me to future championships because this has really been a "learning" season for me. The pace has been really strong and I've struggled to make good strategic decisions. Yesterday myself and agro re raced Suzuka which was a really fun race, but I screwed myself over with strategy after having pole and the race lead up to the last lap yet decided on a risky 1 stop instead of a 2 stop to try to be smart :/ Safe to say it backfired and cost me big time lol and I ran out of tyres in s2 on the last lap.....
Looking forward to our next championship now though lol
and hopefully I'll be able to really fight with Immortal for a whole race next time, it's crazy how it's possible to let it get to you when you're racing closely with him. It's a pretty decent advantage to have, but also motivates you to drive faster.