Orchard Lake F3

Man, that was fun. I'd put in a lot of time practicing for this one, having the weekend to prepare and all, plus I know this track as well as any in rF. Still, set a PB in qualifying and a race-set PB in the early laps of the race too.

The start was crazy, got bumped a couple times but luckily no damage- nobody's fault, just cars everywhere. Came away 6th, up one spot, but Alan got me early on. I was running more downforce, and nobody was outrunning me in the infield (well, save the top 5) but I couldn't quite keep up on the speedway. The draft was enough to keep me in touch with Alan in 6th and, more importantly, put ground on 8-10th.

I tried to hound Alan into a mistake, but he refused to budge, and eventually I fouled up back to back laps and faded. Andre came on strong and it looked to be an epic final 2 laps before his rF apparently jumped to desktop, giving me the space to escape with 7th place, one of my best finishes ever against a field of this quality.

That was the most dramatic DNF I have had in a while! After a few spins and one hard encouter with a wall I had damage to the rear suspension. It was pretty controllable but coming off the banking in to the first turn, as soon as I touched the brakes the car went real loose and shot to the right, so I counter steered left and spun sideways instantly catching air then slamming the wall sideways, flying through the air and slamming the wall again where the wall protrudes out in t1 which sent me kart wheeling across the track over the inside wall in to never never land!!

Made for a wild replay..LoL

Hi

What an adventure, Cory. I´m happy you´ve survived to that terrible accident, lol.
My race was a real mess. I cannot adapt to this cars, i don´t know why.

Cheers, Luis.

Apologies to Janos whose race I managed to wreck twice. Only place I was faster than the two guys in front was the two hairpin corners at the start of the lap so made moves there, both ending in a lock up and slide into the back wheel of Janos. Crap performance from me.

No worries Zak, I know you really didn't want it.
Except those two moves (when Zak span me) we had a really good and fair race in top3, with fighting all over the time.
A bit disappointing, that my win was gone in the last lap, because my risky setup looked like paying off.

Off on the first corner and rear wing flew off. repaired and tried to continue but ended pitting and retiring. lets see on the next one.

Fairly uneventful race for me. Start was fun, and I picked off a couple of folk on the banking due to my low wing settings. After that, though, I found myself in 6th with little chance of gaining or losing a place. Just brought the car home for a reaosnable points haul.