First of all I wanna congratulate aboe for the victory, Cod for the 2nd place and Racingline for the last place in podium (bastard took my bronze in last lap
). Also I can see that my friend Rode won his race in AM division, well done buddy
About my race, well everything was going perfectly until I made some mistakes but that's part of racing and that brings some excitment to the races as it happens in real life!
It all started with qualifier, made a solid first lap, it was not my best but was good enough to grab the pole. I was quite happy that I could start in front, I knew that it wouldn't be easy to stay on someone's back in this track, you lose a lot of visibility and therefore not the same lines as if you would go alone.
Sprint started and everything went alright, made consistent times and I could see that I was quicker than everyone else, still made a minor mistake in last lap but nothing serious happened, anyway it was still a sign that I couldn't lose focus if I wanted a good result.
Then we moved to the Enduro, I was quite confident in my car and setup, this isn't the best track for my Audi but my car was feeling awesome here. We made the Formation Lap and then race started, right after turn 1 I gained a solid distance as I noticed there was a small "fight" for the 2nd place between Cod and aboe. From there I just had to put in pratice my strategy, be consistent and make 1 pit only, until that point everything happened as planned, made no mistakes with RH tyres and gained a good margin to manage until the end of the race. Right around 25 minutes to the end of the race I made my pit stop, I was probably one of the last guys doing their stop but I wanted that way, made good use of my RH tyres and used them for as long as possible. But something happened when I made my entrance in pit lane, totally forgot to change my tyres to Mediums and only changed the gas (lol), from that point I knew it would be really hard to get my 1st position again, left pit lane in 4th place and I was close to 10 seconds behind aboe. What could I do from that point? Push as hard as I could but it was really a pain, I was doing consistent 1:21:5xx in RH but they were no match against everyone else using RM... After some laps I caught Cod (guessing he did some sort of mistake), I was close to his pace but losing a bit on turns, tried to overtake him but he fought back right after. A moment after that I was still behind Cod and in turn 4 I pushed a bit too much and lost control of my car, slightly but enough to damage my rear right of the car. That was another stone in my shoe and from that point I just wanted to finish in 3rd (Racingline made his 2 stop few laps before). With my damaged car I was still doing decent laps but losing lots of time to Racingline with RM and with fresh rubber, everything went normal until last laps when I noticed he was coming quickly, luckily for me he was behind Jethro_King, holding him back a little bit. In last lap both caught me up and I was grinding to maintain my 3rd position, at that point Racing just made his pass to King and now he was onto me, after cork screw he made a risky overtake and it was probably his only chance, it was risky but a good pass. Lost my 3rd place in last lap, I was a bit sad about it but I knew it was my own fault.
Really enjoyed the race but I feel like I should have done better, 25 minutes were more than ok for my car using RM and I was pulling 1:20:5xx with full tank, anyway nothing I could do about it now and guys, I'm not trying to make any excuses, it was my own fault as I said
Congratz again to the podium and I'm looking forward to the next races 👍