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I just made it in the Mazda RX-Vision. I took an aggressive approach while fighting my way through the pack and got past the leading Supra in lap 4. I had a lead of about 4 seconds when Beauvois in the Mercedes overtook him in lap 8. This lead had shrunk to about 3 seconds when it was time to pit two laps later. I put on another set of fresh RM tyres, filled the car up to the brim and came out of the pits in 17th.
I knew that the AI wasn't particularly good at dealing with traffic, so I didn't take any prisoners on my way up the order. The result was a healthy 12 second lead on Beauvois when all the traffic between us had cleared in lap 18. Again, Beauvois started to close the gap, but only managed to bring it down by about a second when we were entering the pits in lap 20. I changed to yet another set of RM tyres, filled up with fuel for 10.5 laps and came out of the pits in 4th.
Hizal in the Subaru was in front of me at this point and he had set the fastest lap of the race. I got past him two laps later, however my overtaking attempt in the esses against Lopez in the leading Renault went wrong and I lost quite a bit of momentum. As a result, Hizal was in range to make a move on me when we got to the banked U-turn and he went for a divebomb which nearly took me out. Honestly, that was the scariest moment of the race. However all went well and his pit stop in the very same lap got me rid of him.
Another two laps later Beauvois also got past Lopez which revealed that I had a comfy 11 second lead for the remaining 6 laps. Nothing else really happened after that and I managed to finish the race 7 seconds ahead of Beauvois.
The race went without any major hickups. There was one moment early in the race where I had braked way too late for turn 1, however a fellow Mazda driver saved my life by serving as an additional brake 🤭 Oh, and if you're curious about Rubilar and his M6: The replay revealed that he ended up in the gravel twice over the first 3 laps which, added to the traffic he had to deal with as a result, pretty much took him out of the competition for first place.
I was on fuel map 1 throughout the entire race and my best lap was a 1:56.436.
I knew that the AI wasn't particularly good at dealing with traffic, so I didn't take any prisoners on my way up the order. The result was a healthy 12 second lead on Beauvois when all the traffic between us had cleared in lap 18. Again, Beauvois started to close the gap, but only managed to bring it down by about a second when we were entering the pits in lap 20. I changed to yet another set of RM tyres, filled up with fuel for 10.5 laps and came out of the pits in 4th.
Hizal in the Subaru was in front of me at this point and he had set the fastest lap of the race. I got past him two laps later, however my overtaking attempt in the esses against Lopez in the leading Renault went wrong and I lost quite a bit of momentum. As a result, Hizal was in range to make a move on me when we got to the banked U-turn and he went for a divebomb which nearly took me out. Honestly, that was the scariest moment of the race. However all went well and his pit stop in the very same lap got me rid of him.
Another two laps later Beauvois also got past Lopez which revealed that I had a comfy 11 second lead for the remaining 6 laps. Nothing else really happened after that and I managed to finish the race 7 seconds ahead of Beauvois.
The race went without any major hickups. There was one moment early in the race where I had braked way too late for turn 1, however a fellow Mazda driver saved my life by serving as an additional brake 🤭 Oh, and if you're curious about Rubilar and his M6: The replay revealed that he ended up in the gravel twice over the first 3 laps which, added to the traffic he had to deal with as a result, pretty much took him out of the competition for first place.
I was on fuel map 1 throughout the entire race and my best lap was a 1:56.436.
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