BVR Fanatec Chase 2 Hours of Race2Play

Alvin,
sorry for change my line in the last moment,my fault...

Congrats for all finishers!!!

Wow! This track and protos do not mix, but somehow we made it through alive!

To our surprise (and benefit) the race got reduced to two hours, which made it less of a nightmare for the proto drivers. Removing driver swaps also meant that the drivers title was going to be between Theo, Barrett, and I.

Qualifying went very well for me, with Theo nabbing the pole by 0.133 seconds. This was going to be a great race, and by finishing this way I was going to be champion, until...

The haystacks of doom started to take victims one by one. I forgot how many time my car ended up on a haystack, losing a wheel in one of my encounters. Either my team had a truck loaded with a bunch of front ends for my car or they ran to one of the shops on the track and bought a can of red spray paint so they can paint the white portion of Theo's spare front ends and put them in my car.

Also was victim of the bottlenecks that this track has, colliding with some cars that spun on parts that only one car could fit at a time.

A big thanks to Theo for teaming up and helping me throughout these past seven months on understanding how to prepare setups. I feel that your tutoring has helped me big time.

Now time to take the cars in one week to the Endurance Series World Championship.

I was hoping for better things here, having found a setup that allowed me to run good times and be confident with on such a tricky track.

Despite fast times in pre-race practice, I didn't replicate them in Q which let Theo & Alvin grab the front row.

I decided to take it easy on the first few laps and see how things developed, but lost it on L1 dropping back maybe 30 secs and making things harder from the start.

Despite working back up to 2nd and still with a chance of catching Theo, I had a series of spins/errors which resulted in about +10mins of pitstops taking me out of contention for a top 3.

Big grats to Theo & team mate Barrett who managed to keep it much cleaner than me and apply some pressure to Theo at the end. Thanks also to Nigel & Carl for making it easy to pass when necessary on such a difficult trak.