Autosport 4 Hours of Silverstone

I think I'm curse, another race another connection lost with 10 minutes to go, another 1st place lost, I'm sick...

Way to go Andre and Paulo! Great Job guys.

Sorry to hear about your bad luck Alexandru. Thats real shit being in first place and after all that work.

The first 20-ish laps were great fighting with Nigel for position. That fight was rudely ended by imho the most impatient and respectless protodriver of this moment. That resulted in a major motivation drop followed by some stupid spins. Eventually I did something I hardly ever do ... hitting ESC. Grats to all (podium)finishers.

Nobody showed for gt1.. Wow! Would have raced but missed the password after the GT40 race.

Coming to this race I taught that I would be doing one half of it given that the whole championship has been in pairs, but I was surprised that I had to do the whole race, which for me four hours is way too much, but decided to just power on.

Was surprised to be close to Frans and Andre in qualy and once the race started we were close to each other. Unfortunately I started to make stupid mistakes by myself. with 15 minutes to go on my first stint I cranked the boost to close the gap and then pit, but spun in Copse, hitting the wall and getting two flat tires. Then 10 laps later had another stupid spin losing my front. Just had a total motivation drop in my part and decided to call it a race and head with my wife to the zoo.

On the good side for UK-NL Racing we now have clinched the P2 team championship. Lets see what happens with the driver's championship.

unlucky Alexandru just 10 mins that was some intense racing for 4 hours not that many gt cars but we was fighting the hole time good clean racing apart from the little tap sorry about that mate as for the p2 drivers i think some of u need to drive a gt car and see the lines u need to take.it is sad to hear people pushing esc because people r impatiemt and this seems to be happing alot.

garts to podium and all who finished

Expecting a lot of traffic and slower laptimes, I only tested medium and hard tyres. As there seemed to be not much difference in performance, I decided to go for hards, and only change them at the second stop midway.

At the start of the race however, GT1 and LMPC appeared absent, and with only seven GT2's a lot of laps would be clear of traffic. Going for softs and three tyrechanges would have probably been faster. Still, don't think I'd be able to get close to Andre. He was lightning-fast today.

I started conservatively, to make sure the hard tyres would last 70 laps, and could quite easily hang on to second place. Andre gradually pulled away, but I figured my shorter stops would bring me close again.

When the tyrewear showed to be acceptable, I started to push a little. Wrong choice again, as this resulted in several minor mistakes (halfspins, slides), losing more time. Finally decided to settle for second, Andre was definitely out of reach.

No issues dealing with traffic today, except one misunderstanding with Paulo entering Maggots, for which I'm to blame. Luckily, Paulo showed great skill with his immediate reaction there.

Grats to Andre, Carl and podiums. I feel sorry for Alexandru, that's got to be so frustrating. Keep up George: one day they'll see the light instead of flashing them.

@Alvin: I wasn't aware you expected to share a car. I only entered this event because that rule was abandoned.

Decided not to race when I was only 1 GT1 :(