Starting with quailfying, I waited for the first ten guys to finish their qualifying to get as small amount of people on track at the same time, which worked out. My first flyer was enough to get pole.
I didn't know much about Avatar's pace before this race, but he showed that he is fast
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Well done for P2 in Q in your first NAR race.
The race started out smoothly, I got the first corner and suddenly I saw that Mark was up in P2, so I thought that this will be a hard one! But I found a great rythm pretty quickly, and gained alot of time in S2 on every lap. By the first round of stops I had a 18 sec lead and was curious whether Mark fooled us all by going for a 1 stopper
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He proved me wrong after an additional 5-6 laps or so, and after that I controlled my pace to save the engine and avoid making silly mistakes, like spinning because of the treacherous kerbs in S2.
My last worry was the second and final pit stop, when I had to increase the fuel load right before I parked in the box. I think I parked it a little bit past the box, and my crew waited some seconds before they started working on my car. Luckily I had a lead that was good enough, and my final stint was a rather slow one to save fuel and the car.
Great track and great mod. It's good fun to drive, but it's hard to choose it before CTDP
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But that's an issue we will discuss later I think.
Nice to have Mark with us, he will be a great opponent and I'm glad you will continue! Well done for second place and well done to my teammate Kaffe for third. Gongrats to all finishers.
Was great with a grid as big as this one, hope we will get the same amount in the regular season racing aswell
See you on track,
Fred