#8 on the calendar- Valencia
Qualifying went great, made an adjustment to the wing and found 1.5 seconds, qualified for 19th which is fantastic for a track I'm not well at.
Race. Objective is 18th or higher, I think it's possible as long as I don't destroy a wing. I have a feeling a few dsq/dnf may happen here.
Right at the start, I see Di Resta lose control of his car on the 2nd turn and smash into the blue barrier facing the wrong way. A major opponent in my tier already off to a bad start. 2 more incidents happen causing traffic to slow down considerably slow, and I zip around them to overtake 11th. No safety car, just local yellows. Lap 3, and positions 1-10 already have a 12 second gap between me and them, I know there's no way I can catch up to them. Fuel is on lean to save the tires.
Another yellow flag on lap 3, Grosjean takes 24th place, he's not having a good race. Another yellow at the pit lane end of lap 3, I hear Pastor spinning his tires, look behind, a lot of debris flies in the air, so I assume he lost his front wing, right after pit entrance. Dropping back to 13th, Vergne has the better car, Ricciardio though trails behind me, waiting to make his move. Him and Resta overtake me on the DRS zone, putting me to 15th. Glock dropped back to 21st. Grosjean making his way up, in 17th.
Pit on lap 13, in 16th position in front of Ricciardio, had a slight spin beforehand, but held on to it. No drama so far. Pitted for hard tires, came out ahead of Ric. Grosjean finally makes his way up right after I came out of the pits, position 17. First blue flag, Massa is in the lead. Glock 16.8 seconds behind. Massa pulls a 1:45.667, compared to my best of 1:54.416. Glock is in 18th, 26 seconds behind by lap 18.
Drive-through penalty on lap 19-20, was completely 100 percent my fault with early braking to let someone by, but I didn't get off the racing line. Glock now 3.389 seconds behind me.
Webber, Hamiliton, Ricciardo, and Maldonado all retired so far.
Lap 31, I'm in 15th, Glock in 16th, 5.0 seconds behind me, a fantastic race so far, he's always behind me, even when we pit. 1:51.984, fastest lap for me. I think Glock is also trying to do the 2-stop strategy I am going for. My teammate comes breathing down my neck by lap 38, we're having at it, but clean. Everytime he gets the DRS, he tries to take the inside line, but he has to brake earlier, so I've kept him behind me for now. Kovalainen steps in between us every now and then, but I see the yellow stripes on his tires, so he's not really a factor between us and Glock because we are both on the harder white-stripped ones.
Lap 40 he has pitted, Glock has overtaken me. I need to stay in front of him, I have 0 idea how many laps are left because of how many times the top has overtaken me. Lap 42, Glock suffers from traffic, and slows down a lot, enough for me to pass him. I pass him, just need to maintain this spot long enough to win my race against him.
As soon as I crossed the line starting lap 43, Glock pulls to his left and slows down. He's joined the retired group, Glock, Webber, Hamiliton, Ricciardo and Maldonado all out of the race. Kovalainen still behind me, my tires are almost dead, and I'm not sure of the ending of the race. I had a window to pit, so I took it, and put on my last set of softs. Enter 15th, come out on 15th, success. Now to hold my position. Perez pulls fastest lap of the race 1:42.308. Alonso takes the pole on lap 53/57 for me. I finish up in 15th ahead of my competition on the grid.
17th spot overall for Driver's. Glock is 21st. Marussia is 10th for Constructors.
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