Atlantic Racing Team GT Challenge

Sadly connecttion lost 20 min to the end.....Good fights for sixth place.....Could not keep up with first 5 aliens, and 2 spins in the opening laps.....shame, was looking good.

Q: Could not do a good lap, some mistakes by me, some traffic problems and P6. 3 mins till end i pressed ESC to go another sprint stint, but then remembered about the ESC rule so i stayed in garage.

Race was great. Start was not so good but managed to get into TOP3-4 by the 1st few corners. Then had a nice race with... well everyone in TOP5. :)

I was surprised to see some others make mistakes and not me... but then around 10mins till end i saw my fuel was just not gonna make it to end... tried to do some shortshifting but was not enough. Had to PIT 2 laps before end for a 10liters spit. Sadly that put me off podium, but still was a great race and the competition was really hard and fair.

Backmarkers were also great, had no problem with any of them, great stuff still here on R2P :)

Grats on the podium and nice to race you again specially Zak and Tristan. You havent slowed a bit hehe.

Cheers also to Event Steward, whoever it was. ;)

Will totally drive some more of these series here when i find the time. Good to know there s always gonna be some good crowd here when i feel like racing.

Instead of a lot of bla bla like useual, I want to show you my postrace-report this time. Action say more then a thousend words :). Carl and Barry had a frontrow seat.

Luckely, after the pitstop, I still got 4th place so its not all bad. Got some points.

Btw sorry to A. James for being a dumbass. After his off he came back on track and I thought he saw us comming so I didnt lift. Bad mistake by me.

Tough race for me. Went with a very stable setup which was fast when you got into the groove but not too quick the rest of the time. Had a bad start and slowly moved up the field as more people spun off.

Had a small incident with Tristan as I tried to let him past thinking he had flicked to the right out of turn 1 so backed off and flashed the lights only to look behind and find him touching the bumper.

Was about the only incident in my race, eventually getting 2nd back after Janko had to pit.

This was one hell of a race.

Q:

Couldn't find a perfect lap considering traffic but was happy to line up on row 2.

R:

Slipped the clutch just right and got just ahead of Raphael into T1. I don't think he knew I'd get my whole car in front and as Raphael turned in, he gave me a bit of a nudge from behind, just enough to cause me to run wide on the exit. I definitely didn't see this as intentional on Raphael's part - just good close racing.

From there it was a matter of hunting down the top-5. Raphael took off in the lead but Alexandre, Zak, Janko and I were all close together. There was not much between the four of us. I can't quite remember when passes were made but I had a spin under power on my own at one point, and I recall Alexandre got way loose out of the first (very bumpy) chicane. Raphael started to slow somewhere around halfway, and Janko got past him sometime after my self-spin as I was catching up. Raphael put up a strong fight with me but I managed to pass him around the outside of the final right-hander. Lots of room given, very respectful and fun. But two laps later I ran wide at T1 and Raphael got past. One of the 997s maybe got distracted by Raphael and I closing in so fast as we approached the right-hand hairpin in sector 1 and outbroke itself, sliding up the track and into Raphael's way. All three of us made contact and Raphael was the meat in the middle. His sudden loss of speed caused him to spin. An unfortunate way to end a solid battle. The Lambo emerged unscathed by this incident, so I set off in pursuit of Janko.

As Janko mentioned he had to conserve fuel in the final laps so I caught him quickly. I forget where I got by but it was very nearly his win. I ran boost 2 the whole race and finished with 1.5 gallons remaining, so had the pack stayed together for longer (meaning, had we all stayed on with boost 3 for longer,) then almost any of the top 5 or 6 could have won.

A very cool race with lots of strategy aspects on a fun, undulating course. Really looking forward to more at Oldring :-)