Donington nGTx

I would like to apologize to Mr. Petr Simon for my punt on him :(

Qualified 8th on a wet then damp track. In the wet I went 2nd quickest, on hard wets. But the rears burnt up quick. Came in for Inters and she understeered everywhere - and I went off as the clock ticked down.

I'm so disappointed with that result. Clearly not the quickest car out there - stuck with my set up with front splitter on 1 in error (oh dear!!), and never had enough time to sort it out with 2 splitter.

But I made the same mistake I made in the last race with an RSR here. And that was to change front tyres only at the pitstop. I came out from 1st position (I had 100 litres in at the start and got to lap 28 and last to pit) down to 9th as Petry took me on the pit straight as I trundled down pitlane, but had plenty of time ahead of the other guys.

That was until the oversteering "Porka" pig appeared. The fronts bit hard, the rears were half worn. Never again will I do that. I think I spun 3 or 4 times in those last 12 laps as I struggled big time over a second a lap off my steady low 33's pace. I should have changed rears as well and I would have been still good for P9 (maybe) P10 definitely. Grrrr!

BUT - big plus was some great battles with faster guys trying to pass me. I made it hard for sure, but it was all good stuff.

So P11 in the end as Mircea got me exiting T1 on the last lap. Suppose it's not too bad a result because the top 10 would normally be untouchable for me anyway!! Race no. 99 out of the way. Race 100 on the horizon!

Well done to all who finished. GTR2 shows how good a sim it is yet again!

Happy to qualify 4th in the wet.

I got into 3rd after T1, Barry reeled me in some laps later, at this point my poor rear wing/tyre choice started to became apparent. My car became very pointy and nervous and with Barry pushing me hard i got a bit erratic and he passed on the outside of the last turn with a nice move (sorry if i shut the door on you Barry on the same lap at the chicane, I wasnt sure where you were).

As my soft fronts started to wear it balanced the car out and i could get some decent laps in. Made a couple more mistakes costing me a couple of positions before my pit stop.

Changed all 4 tyres even though i thought most others wouldn't. It did cost me a lot of time and came out 20 secs behind George. Pushed like hell for the whole stint and got within about 3 secs in the end. In hindsight it was probably worth changing the tyres by about 5secs (for me anyway). Good racing all.

Grats to Joco, Janko and Barry.

First of all I want to apologize to Mircea and Joao.
With Mircea I got to much to the inside and punted him.
With Joao I was on the inside, I tried to leave Joao room on the inside, I caught some grass with my rear right wheel, when I pushed the brake the car was sliding on all fours and barely touched Joao, but that threw him out. Sorry again. Seems to have been one of those days...
Congrats to podium.

Lucky for your it`s your birthday :)
Happy Birthday mate :)

I tried to go to Q on slicks which turned out not so good.. I had best Sector 1 time but spun afterwards. So i started 16th..

Race was great with full of action. I dont think my tactics were good i was in pits for way too long and lost some places there also. But i could come back with fresh tires and get 2nd. Needed 1 more lap to get Joco who was driving a rally car in last two corners..

Thnx to Barry and Garret for some great racing throughout the race!

After 3 awful races in the last 5 days, this is really a great win for me.

I qualified securely on pole with 1 second to spare. I first went out of pits on slicks but then I decided to get back to garage and change them to wets.

Made a good start and was slowly increasing my gap to Garret and Barry. First stint really was not very hard and it shows, as I was making some really consistent laps. On pit time my gap was around 10 seconds to P2. I made a mistake pre-race as I wasn't 100% sure about fuel tactics so I was thinking about that in the race, dropping a few tenths along the way probably. Well I then took too much fuel, which already was a problem since RSRs consume less fuel than RS Porsches so they could make 2 laps more than me and take less fuel too, which resulted in 4-5 seconds slower pit stop than Barry and Garret.

Second stint I was not gaining alot of gap and eventually Janko made it on P2 and he was closing in fast on his soft, newer tires and over a 1 second faster car. Lap by lap he was getting closer and I knew there was absolutely no room for mistakes. I couldn't keep the consistency from my first stint but it was looking solid until the last lap as Janko was really under my tail and I had to hold him back. I managed to do that and took a very satisfying first place!

Can't believe I won with an RS along with Janko and Cristi in the race.

Great race for me, see you all next time.

Thank you Mircea :D

Janko, Joco, come on admit it, it was a Ferrari call :))
Joking. Great job Joco and Janko!

Cristi were you on softs in the 1st stint? Some nice laps :o Not as consistent as mine but still, nice laps ;)

EDIT: Happy BD :)

I was on meds Joco. Didn't change tires.