Write up time, My session again started late as I was checking football team news and then I went to change my set-up. After advise from Bushi, I went for super hard springs and some random features and when I went out on some brand new set of medium tyres, I spun thinking i had cold tyres. I came in and fixed my front wing went back out and my car was so slidy but I presumed it was still cold tyres but the graphic showed green and it was just a poor set up. I only had a minute left so I just went for a lap and coming out of turn 3 i opened DRS too early and hit the wall. 14 seconds off the pace i continued my only lap and came into the pits.
So race day came and I was 3rd and last but I started on new softs unlike pole man Bushi (Used hards) and Chreden(used Options) and when the 5 lights went out... I bolted straight on the KERS button and I got past Chreden on the straight and Bushi into Turn 1 but coming out of Turn 2 I was hit from behind, presumably revenge from Bushi, but managed to hold the spin, run onto the grass but kept the lead defending hard from Bushi who was attacking at every given oppurtunity until I got to the penultimate corner where I was very slow into and out of it and Bushi took me on the back straight, and chreden getting a run on the outside, it was the last of the late brakers and he braked later, much later but got a poor run onto the pit straight and I got back past him, an entertaining lap 1! Lap 2 he was attacking hard but I was focused on keeping it on the road but I knew i would be easily passed with DRS, yet however he didn't get past me but he was attacking hard, I made sure I used Schumi-esque defending, shutting every potentially open door but driving to keep it on the track. Then on lap 4 coming out of Turn 2, Chreden spun and I could breathe easily but Turn 15 (or the penultimate corner) I went wide and into the kitty litter, he managed to re close the gap and pitted. After his pit stop i planned to come in on lap 5, and i was just watching my tyres and seeing where I would come out. As i came into the pits it said i would be out P2 like and i remained there. I was 7 seconds ahead and with 6 laps left I was just keeping it calm and went into fuel saving mode, yet Chreden closed in and on Lap 9 he was back on my gearbox and I was defending hard again but he was much faster than me on the primes. Lap 11 and coming out of Turn 9 or 11 I went wide but carried a lot of speed but he went wider and got into the gravel, he was gone and I could breathe easy till the end, I just took it composed and on the last lap as i approached the last sector the race winner crossed the line, and world championship favourite, Bushi won by over 40 seconds. I was in a distant second after a race long battle to hold off the charging Chreden who eventually finished 3rd and was potentially faster than me but clean, hard defending gave me the win. A great race and the championship standings are currently:
Oh and poorly edited into Sky F1 graphics!