Gran Premio Santander D'Italia

What an exhausting race!
I never thought that I would be fast enough for the pole because I did not really practice until today. The start and the first few laps were okay. But then I accidentally shifted twice in the first turn and spun. Sorry for that collision Mark!

After that I catched up with David and chased him. I would not have had a chance to get past him on track, so I decided to change my strategy and did an early pit stop.

That strategy worked like a charm and I could take the first place again after the regular pit stop wave.

The rest of the race went really well. The only problem was my front left tire which wear down real quick. I had to drive a bit more careful and it did not explode or anything in the end.

That was a nice race, everyone!

My start was not great and was passed by a couple seemed someone may have jumped the start behind me. I avoided some T1 stuff saw lots of smoke took to inside but was now in 6th.

eventually made my way up the field and was leading @ 1/2 way mark but I missed my break point into T4 car got a bit squirly and I spun it losing a lot of time like 10 seconds or so.. then I pitted about lap 26-27 and pushed like crazy until end.

I was catching Timo but ran out of laps. P2 still good result though ran decent most of race with good pace with very little practice.

Congratulations Timo, David and Lyssimacos on your podium finish!

For the race I definitely had too much wing in the car as I could not close on anyone in the draft. When Kevin Ransom caught me there was nothing I could do to hold him off, and couldn’t even stay with him in the draft.

With six or seven laps to go I noticed I was catching Mark Johnson at a very fast rate and surmised he must have a problem, or was conserving fuel. It appeared that he had a suspension problem as he was very unstable under braking. As glad as I was to get that position, I would have rather earned it. Sorry to see you end your event that way.

With no team mate I am curious as to what others had for wing and tires. Now I know this is “Super Secret stuff” but if I walked up and down the grid or garage area during practice I would have seen what others had.

I ran 19 Front wing and 18 Rear wing with medium tires and 1 stop.

Anyone want to share?

I ran 12/12 and soft tires.

I was running 9-9 wing soft tires 1 stop.

LOL .... no wonder!

Thanx

Asa 10/15 tires medium 1 stop

My set was comfortable 18/16 on Softs but failed to explore cars performance to the max like most. I was probably the slowest in the top end but the quickest on pull away! Very fast on the last turn but no end speed, though I had though this set would make me happy. But in the end was glad to finish it up without much fatigue.