Euro G3: Monza

Not impressed with myself today.
I've had a long couple of days at work, wasnt really up for this but I thought what the heck, could be fun. The car was ok in qualifying, but awful in the race, couldn't get the bloody thing to stop (hence I span Marko and had to let him back through, while wondering what he would have done in the same situation...). Also forgot that there was a lap limit so overdid it on the fuel AND the conservation in the first 5-10 laps, so all in all I was lucky to get 2nd. Just about had the legs on Darren, and Joco threw it off at the end to give me back the place I'd given him earlier while slowing down for Marko. Oh well, I hope to have more fun next time :-)

Good race, was with the front pack for the first couple laps
was sitting comfertably behind milan waiting for some first lap mistakes but i ended up being the first to faulter .. Nice cool head Milan, good race, then just kept falling back and decided wrather make sure i dont loose time to claudiu and keep my 6th ... Car is big and nasty!

Vipers are so much faster here it felt like mixed class racing. So I feel like I won the Porker race!
Quali was slow, I was again at least 1 sec off my pb but got fastest Porker time. At start a Viper in front of me was slow on start and I had to lift off which allowed Darren Seal to slip through. I dare not think it saved my race as I saw him punted a bit later. Race went ok then, had some gap to other Porkers until Mark McClean caught up. His setup was not so good as he was faster through the corners and slower on the straights - exactly wrong for Monza, lol. We must have changed position 4 times and every time I caught him either on the straight or after his mistake. He really wasn't in the best racing mood today. I was keeping my pace and he was like a bee around me - front, back, front, back. Two laps before end he caught himself into Parabolica sand trap and came out 7 sec behind me, so I just cruised to the finish.
I had a good race, all I got was a no-damage tap in first turn.

TT

Oh,suddenly a lot of Vipers in a g3 event,i wonder why.

Very eventful race

Qual cold be better I guess I need to do more work on the setup.

Turn 1 was very tight for me but in the end I kept the 3rd. After some laps Marko and Scott punted, somebody waited and I was leading.
But Marko was getting closer and closer. His car was much faster on the straights, I was a little quicker on the turns but he got me either before Parabolica or Turn 1...

In the last lap he outbraked me and knowing, I would risk I didn't leave room for Marko, who punted me off track losing 2 positions :(

Well I'm dissappointed knowing I might win, still grats to Marko and Scott too.

Yeah, I noticed that too Barry... I feel I deserved the right though, I stuck with this thing through Barcelona and Oschersleben :P

Got punted on lap one and I dont know whether it was me or the car but I had terrible oversteer and couldn't get into a rhythm.

Oh well....

Not a bad quali time put me 5th, turn 1 was nice and clean from my point of view and I came out with Carl right on my bumper. He had to stop at the end of the lap and the car in front went a bit wide in turn 1 and I picked up 4th. The front 6 all closed up when the leaders had their incident and I had a job to hold on to 4th. Scott was keeping the gap or pulling away from me and Milan was ready to pounce if I had a mistake. Stayed that way for the rest of the race. Grats to the podium finishers.

Had a good qual, did a track record.
Start of the race was slow ,I almost staled the engine,hopefully I picked up and followed Scott.After few laps I passed him,and few laps later a get a big hit in the back(think my car was not the same after that) then fair move by Scoot ,who let me by.Thx for that sporty move(I we done the same thing in that situation,but contacts what we had,someone always get out off the track,or spinned.)
Then I was chasing Joco , and slowly picking up.Good pace Joco:)
Then I get passed him 15min before the end , end got command from above :) to let him by.
Then few moments later I passed him again , and slowly moving away , but then someone get on the track from the sand , on very bad place , where I had to stop completly to avoid hitting him.
I was hoping that Joco had seen the situation , but he passed me 2 laps before the end :)Then I pushed to max(with my bad chosen soft fronts witch was worn way ago)and tryed to overtake him in few atempts.
I succeed but joco got some sand.Sorry Joco

After all it was a good race with 15min of preparation :)

Finished 13th.
An hour before the race I decided to switch to the Viper and what do you know, it was much faster. I was actually surprised to see so many on the track. I was expecting an all Porsche race and it was the opposite. I wasn't anywhere near as fast as the lead cars, but happened to have a few exciting moments throughout the race.

Congrats Marko!