Race report:
I started in 8th.
Was just focused on not making any mistakes in the initial part of the race. Last time my pace was ok at Spa was like 12 days ago. Managed a 13,8... then.. In the beginning of the week, I had to get my quali done since I was leaving for London and knew I would not have any time to practice.. My pace was soo slow. Ended up with a 15.2..
And I've not started up my PS3 at all since.
And since I was hosting as well, I knew I would'nt get much practice in. So I was not expecting too much from myself.
However, I started out slow and coutios. Main reason was that I did not want anyone else to pay for me not practicing enough.
I got to me pretty soon that I was slow. Welsh, Red and Biffy dissapeared in the horizon during the first couple of laps.
But as the race went on, my pace got better and better. Not super quick, but I atleast felt confident.
I believe Biffy and Welsh had a slight contact after the long sweeping left going in to the rigth/Left/Right section. This made me pass Welsh, and close up to biffy.
By this time, Welsh started to catch up to me. I thought he had damage, but obviously not. The crash looked bretty bad from my perspective.
When Welsh passed me a lap or 2 later, I managed to stay in his draft. So when Biffy run wide in the righthander prior the straight leading up to the buss stop, Welsh had to brake, and I passed both of them. From here on, I managed to keep them behind be. I guess I had pretty good tires at the time, and them 2 fighting helped me a lot.
RedReevos had a good race and ran with the aliens. But I had no idea about that when I was in the race. So I tryed to pit early for my 2nd stop to try and jump him due to better tires.
And 2 laps later, he DC'd. (I really feel for you mate. You ran an awesome race up to that point! 👍 ) So my early pit transformed from an attempt to catch up, to an opportnity for the guys behind instead.
I did an 11 lap stind, and knew that Welsh was gaining on me. I did not know.. I just KNEW.. And with 3 laps left, I could see him in my rear view. At this time, I ran 2:17's and felt like a sitting duck. Fortenutly, Biffy was fighting him, so I managed to keep my distance.
4th place is so much more than I could ever hope for.
Sprint race. I started in 4th.
Had Wardez, TnJF and GV ahead of me.. And tony1311 right behind me..
tony1311 tried to pass me after the long startight, but I got a good exit and he ended up in a bad position, so timeattack overtook him. So now I had timeattack and tony in my rear view.. So while I tryed to drive defensively, and also keep the pace up to not loose the guys ahead, disaster strikes. While in GV's slip and with cold tires (Still on 1st race lap), I ran wide in the righthander leading out to the last long staraight. Picked up damage on both my rear (?) suspentions. So had to pit right away.
I just tryed to keep my pace up after this. And me timeattack, GV and tony had a fun battle from lap 5-9.. Well, them 3 was battleing, while I struggled to not loose their draft.
At this moment, I thought to my self that 5th is good, keeping in mind I ended up in 4th in heat 1.
But by lap 7, I noticed Biffy closing in on us 4 fast. Pace was pretty low in our pack, and Biffy had clean air. So by the last lap, Biffy passed me in the end of the long straight after Eau Rouge. I stayed close to him, and got a good run out on the final long section. But did not catch him soon enough, so had to let of the throttle to not run wide in the fast left kink prior busstop.
So I ended up in 6th.
A very fair race all the way if you ask me. Had an awesome Sunday. 👍
Connection Issues: It's really sad when it happens. I can really feel it in my heart when someone DC's. I've not DC's much at all (knocks on wood), but I know the feling when disaster strikes.
What I'd like to ask from you who had a bad day with your connection. Please, don't post negative posts in here. There's nothing we can do about it from here. These DC's happens so randomly, so there's no way that we can change procedures, rules and such to make them go away.
Incidents: Please PM incident reports to me, Wardez, Dr_Watson and CSLACR. Do not post angry/agressive messages in here. It will only end up in arguments that will not lead to anything good. I.e me and tony after the Suzuka race. I'm sorry for that.
Instead, PM the other part if you want to discuss what happened. I.e I PM'ed Aderrrm about a small incident after the Suzuka race, and we're totally fine.
I can understand the frustration if the incident apears like if some one drive like s**t. But please, keep your cool and contact the stewards and the other part. Thanks. 👍
It will be interestinhg to see the promotion/demotion procedure. I hope I'm safe..
Thought he would slow them down a bit. Problem is, the aliens rose above the connections today, and dominated per usual.
Beers on you mate. 
