13 February 2017, 18:32
Not done a race report before, so just in case anyone's interested, here goes.
Qualifying: Was pleased with 6th. DIMAVIKA and I had very close lap times when we practiced earlier in the week, but there was no way on Sunday I could keep with his qualifying pace. Well done Dima.
Heat 1: Got a rubbish start with too much wheel spin. In my effort to ensure my team captain Sven passed me unscathed I also let through S4b1n (teammate, so OK) and Mr Chip (rival, so not OK.) This put me down to 10th. Within the next couple of laps I managed to get clean passes on S4b1n and Mr Chip (they may suggest otherwise!) and chased after DeLof. It became apparent I would not catch him and, with a bit of space behind me, settled to bring it home 8th.
Heat 2: Better start, and I was in the thick of it when coming out of Les Combes Mr Chip went in to the back of me. Mr Chip kindly waited (thanks) but by the time I sorted myself out we were both off the back. We both got passed nucrx, Mr Chip got passed me and then I somehow managed to give Mr Chip a love tap and we were both off the back again. One to forget I think.
Heat 3: I'm still not totally sure how I managed to cock this up. Get the message from Sven to go into the server where I find myself on the front row with Mr Chip?! Confused, I eventually see a message that the server has disconnected. Good, Sven's correcting this. I quit and wait for Sven's message, which doesn't come (I now think because it had been sent before I quit the server and I didn't see it whilst in VR.) Suspecting things aren't quite right, I refresh to discover that I am the only one not in the server! I go back in to find myself in the pits and you rotters have all started without me and are 1 minute 15 seconds up the road. So I do the 5 laps on my own so I at least get more points than those that did not start.
In the words of D:Ream - "Things can only get better." Bring on Donington.
Qualifying: Was pleased with 6th. DIMAVIKA and I had very close lap times when we practiced earlier in the week, but there was no way on Sunday I could keep with his qualifying pace. Well done Dima.
Heat 1: Got a rubbish start with too much wheel spin. In my effort to ensure my team captain Sven passed me unscathed I also let through S4b1n (teammate, so OK) and Mr Chip (rival, so not OK.) This put me down to 10th. Within the next couple of laps I managed to get clean passes on S4b1n and Mr Chip (they may suggest otherwise!) and chased after DeLof. It became apparent I would not catch him and, with a bit of space behind me, settled to bring it home 8th.
Heat 2: Better start, and I was in the thick of it when coming out of Les Combes Mr Chip went in to the back of me. Mr Chip kindly waited (thanks) but by the time I sorted myself out we were both off the back. We both got passed nucrx, Mr Chip got passed me and then I somehow managed to give Mr Chip a love tap and we were both off the back again. One to forget I think.
Heat 3: I'm still not totally sure how I managed to cock this up. Get the message from Sven to go into the server where I find myself on the front row with Mr Chip?! Confused, I eventually see a message that the server has disconnected. Good, Sven's correcting this. I quit and wait for Sven's message, which doesn't come (I now think because it had been sent before I quit the server and I didn't see it whilst in VR.) Suspecting things aren't quite right, I refresh to discover that I am the only one not in the server! I go back in to find myself in the pits and you rotters have all started without me and are 1 minute 15 seconds up the road. So I do the 5 laps on my own so I at least get more points than those that did not start.
In the words of D:Ream - "Things can only get better." Bring on Donington.