P3 qualy was okay for me as, judging from the times seen in the pre-race practice, I was expecting to be farther from the front than this.
Race start would have been good if Juan (in front of me) had actually launched.

Once I saw all the cars passing by, I figured I'd just take it easy for a while and let everyone kill themselves in front...

I was stuck behind Steve for what seemed an eternity (almost 10 laps, IIRC) but finally managed to pass him in T1 on the second try after noticing he went wider than me there. I did a lot of mistakes in the first half of the race, I probably had 4-5 spins in T11 alone (slow left before the long banked right turn), mistakes I did not do often in practice.

I had some nice competition with SteveB but the close racing for a few laps but after that, we were mostly 5 seconds apart for much of the race, either in front or behind as we traded mistakes... I finally got my rythm and my act together after my 2nd stop and could start to push (too late for any realistic gain as Juan was almost 30 seconds in front but you never know, never giving up has paid me in the past). Among my last few laps, I got 2 laps that were faster than my PB (PB was 1:34.4 before and I did 1:34.2 and 34.1 in the race) so I was pleased with that after a very average race overall, driving-wise. I just wish I had "woken up" a bit earlier...
Juan fully deserved the win as he did less mistakes than I did. At McLaren, we let our drivers take the positions they deserve...
