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- dantedani36
Race report:
I was pretty confident about my race pace before the race to finish on a podium. At the start in T1 exit me and C-Falcon touched and I lost 3-4 places due to that. After that there was some great battles between me,chorda and wardez. We were switching positions by the turns, unfortunately though, Remy and Paginas pulled away from us. Some great racing in the early laps, with a little bit of touching here and there, witch is ok for me since nothing happend to us 👍 and that's racing. On lap 3 or 4 wardez got a great run out of T12 and used the slipstream to get beside me, wardez was going to overtake me so I gave him all the space he needed to make the pass in T13, but unfortunately he went a bit to the grass and therefore slid into my car sideways. I ended up in the gravel and
dropped down to last place. I thought, well atleast my car is not damaged and I can catch them again but lost my track position. 1 lap later chorda and wardez touched in T8 exit ending up with wardez spinning, I took advantage of that situation and passed wardez and chorda, once again
after exiting the Schumacher S curve I was suddenly behind supraphantom, I thought to myself, he's probably damaged becouse he was a bit slow. I passed him on the same lap at the last turn where he went wide. Supraphantom
then used my slipstream on the straight and was on my left side as I defended the inside lane. On the exit of T1 we touched and supraphantom spun out. I think I was 4th at that point, but far from the top. I then tried to get a rythm going but that was kinda hard. I had planned a 2-stop strategy and I was going to stick to that although my tires was all gone after 9laps, probably because of the 60kg weight ballast. I was struggling to keep
the car on the track from lap 10-14. Chorda cought up with me and we both pitted on lap 14. From there I got my rythm going and held chorda behind me with consistent lap times. But again after 9laps I was struggling, chorda cought up with me again this time on lap 27, I knew he had the same stragety as I did so I thought that he would pit in also, nope, he decided
to do 1 more lap. I knew I had to push hard now exiting the pit to maintain my 3rd position. I was quite surprised when I saw chorda coming out of the pits infront of me, I thought, what the heck just happened there. I pushed hard to catch him and I did catch him a bit in 2 laps but that was it, my times dropped suddenly and I had massive understear. On lap 37 I don't
know what I was thinking but I drove into the gravel in T8 losing +10sec ( I blame the tires )On the last lap exiting dunlop I saw chorda, he was going very slow. was he damaged? No tires? Fell asleep? nope, he was out of fuel. I passed him for 3rd place. Finishing 3rd was my goal here, although it could have been a smother race, I'm quite pleased with the result.
Congats to Remy for a fantastic win! 👍
I was pretty confident about my race pace before the race to finish on a podium. At the start in T1 exit me and C-Falcon touched and I lost 3-4 places due to that. After that there was some great battles between me,chorda and wardez. We were switching positions by the turns, unfortunately though, Remy and Paginas pulled away from us. Some great racing in the early laps, with a little bit of touching here and there, witch is ok for me since nothing happend to us 👍 and that's racing. On lap 3 or 4 wardez got a great run out of T12 and used the slipstream to get beside me, wardez was going to overtake me so I gave him all the space he needed to make the pass in T13, but unfortunately he went a bit to the grass and therefore slid into my car sideways. I ended up in the gravel and
dropped down to last place. I thought, well atleast my car is not damaged and I can catch them again but lost my track position. 1 lap later chorda and wardez touched in T8 exit ending up with wardez spinning, I took advantage of that situation and passed wardez and chorda, once again
after exiting the Schumacher S curve I was suddenly behind supraphantom, I thought to myself, he's probably damaged becouse he was a bit slow. I passed him on the same lap at the last turn where he went wide. Supraphantomthen used my slipstream on the straight and was on my left side as I defended the inside lane. On the exit of T1 we touched and supraphantom spun out. I think I was 4th at that point, but far from the top. I then tried to get a rythm going but that was kinda hard. I had planned a 2-stop strategy and I was going to stick to that although my tires was all gone after 9laps, probably because of the 60kg weight ballast. I was struggling to keep
the car on the track from lap 10-14. Chorda cought up with me and we both pitted on lap 14. From there I got my rythm going and held chorda behind me with consistent lap times. But again after 9laps I was struggling, chorda cought up with me again this time on lap 27, I knew he had the same stragety as I did so I thought that he would pit in also, nope, he decided
to do 1 more lap. I knew I had to push hard now exiting the pit to maintain my 3rd position. I was quite surprised when I saw chorda coming out of the pits infront of me, I thought, what the heck just happened there. I pushed hard to catch him and I did catch him a bit in 2 laps but that was it, my times dropped suddenly and I had massive understear. On lap 37 I don't
know what I was thinking but I drove into the gravel in T8 losing +10sec ( I blame the tires
)On the last lap exiting dunlop I saw chorda, he was going very slow. was he damaged? No tires? Fell asleep? nope, he was out of fuel. I passed him for 3rd place. Finishing 3rd was my goal here, although it could have been a smother race, I'm quite pleased with the result.Congats to Remy for a fantastic win! 👍
Sorry about that.
) and in effect will miss the race at Monza, but I should be back on the Wednesday before the race at Indy Road, counting on Dante to have a good setup ready so I can qualify as soon as I'm back 
I may drop by every now and then, but I will be mostly inactive on here, so please don't see me as not taking part in the series anymore, cause that is definitely not the case! Off to Florida I go 
