Estoril GT4

Two drivers penalized 1 lap for not serving mandatory drive-through after punting another driver.

Damn I was angry last night!!! Connection problems at the end of qualification and I couln't get back in!!!

I think I had the fifth fastest time...I had put a couple of hour to practice this track cause it was my first visit to it.

I hate loosing time like that! It's the second time I have the same problem...

I'll try to fix that for the next one.

See you at the A1 Ring!

P.S. Congrats to the top three and to my teammates...

Sorry to all for my start. Normally I put it in gear and react to the light but stupidly forgot to put it in gear and when the light turned green I went nowhere. DUH!!! Anyways nice reaction by the guys behind me not to boot me. After the start went from 6th to next to last and it was crazy trying to make up those positions. Got punted in the chicane and lost alot of time but all in all a fun race with some good moments. See you all next time.

No need to apologize to me, Chris - considering it left me a clean track to my left and one spot gained before even getting to T1. I should say thanks... ;-) Did call for a bit of reflex testing on the guys behind though; good job by Mark to dive around so quick.

Matter of fact, that error set the tone for my night, since it was errors by quicker drivers that led to my 2nd place at the end. Had to capitalize with some hard driving, but last night was one of those times when it's better to be lucky than good. I wasn't so much of the latter, epecially in the early going. Couldn't get moving at all in Q, and figured it was just gonna be an off night as I gridded in 7th. Was really all I had at the time; maybe it was the near-empty Chimay on my desk... nahhh..

Anywho, Chris' neutral at the race start gave me room to challenge Yalam and Garrett into T1, but I was outside so I tucked tail. They bumped a bit in the corner, and that let me by Yalam into 5th before T2. Slotted in close behind Garrett (even tapped him lightly once), but before we could really get settled in Barry got over the inside curb in the next to last corner and snap-spun, collecting Garrett in the process. Two more down, and I was up to 3rd with only a few laps in.

Didn't think I'd see much of Matjaz or Maciej after that and was mainly looking to see how much room I had on Barry, Garret and Yalam since I figured they'd be coming. Then up ahead Maciej had the first of several blips he saw on the night and the gap to 2nd was almost gone - game on! Tucked in and tried to hang on, but he was quicker. Didn't look good until he had a small off and I was by into 2nd. Matjaz was long gone and had too much pace to think about getting up to, but I was sure it was going to be interesting trying to hold off Maciej, who was clearly quicker than me.

I forget now how many times we swapped places but it was several (and almost several more!) He was quicker but seemed a bit more on the edge where I was slower and steadier, and we went back and forth like that the rest of the race. I had one big moment on lap ten when my PC froze for a few seconds like it did at Zuhai recently (car sunk halfway into the track in my replay), but I got lucky (that word again) and didn't hit anything - just lost a few seconds. I'd managed to find some pace finally by racing hard with Maciej, and was just barely able to hold him off at the end. Another lap or so and either one of us could have been ahead - every lap was pretty much a toss-up.

Great fun racing for 2nd, but poor Matjaz must've been bored up there all by himself - killer drive as usual.