wo hooo oki, this was exiting. The volvo team, having just being labeled as a terrorist company by mr. Bush, was ready to once again go at it!
ive never liked that last chicane, and indeed - did the qualy finish backwards over the finish line (hehe lucky the line is so close). stupid of me, and cost me the 2nd place (dunno about first if i had a shot with a good last stint). also almost losing it there on the warmup lap and getting a bad run into S1 didnt help....
but i had decided to try and give drago a fight for this one, so i was very very "hot on the porridge" (swedish expression) and whoa, jumpstarted. silly me should have just continued and tried to get a looong headstart before i did my drive through but fair as you are (damn heh) i stopped and wait for you other guys. overtook killa at the exit of estoril, did the first lap, and took the drive through. luckily the pit is so short here, so i ended up...well, almost last i think, but not very far behind. Its nice with the new physics to have all the dirty air that really makes for tough overtakings, got stuck a few laps behind philmax trying to find a opening (nice racing there m8) and finally got through, did a alonso on mike into imola although i gave up at the entry, was just trying to scare you
, but you lifted too so i just went ahead. needed quite many laps to catch up with road and killa, and here there where some problems overtaking too
, but since i'm the leapfrog master
i took it in the pits. Catched killa in the 2nd stind and here i really really got stuck, contemplated pitting early and getting some clean laps but decided to stay out as long as i could. got a weird miss when i hit the curb at the exit of grande curve/entry of estoril and took a run in the gravel. Thought i'd lost my driving being stuck behind martin doing low 15s but as soon as that damn car
went into the pits the laptimes dropped to mid/high 14s and i was able to stay out for 4-5 laps at least, so no problems with the leapfrogging here either. Had a scary moment when i actually spun
exiting the last turn and took the wall sliiightly but no worries. Then it was just a cruise, but still nice to secure 2nd after all that happened. Loads of fun (as usual) this one, and juding from the number of finished it feels like we've gone in the right direction with the physics change.
wellwell, drago was a alien this one and he was even brave enough to wait for me with 5 laps to go, only to pull away. had a scary moment when his car dissapeared for a few seconds so i decided to play it safe and stay away from there (you wont beat me that easy m8
).
always nice to pip the teamm8, and to make some overtakings. had a really really sweet one on noob where we both almost lost it under braking i think, but it ended fine. gotta love adelaide
congratz drago, congratz to all the finishes, and hopefully i can join silverstone next weekend.
