GT3 Round 9 - Paul Richard (25th May)

(We are doing the shorter course...)

Qualifying
Qual starts at 7.30pm TTR time. This will be a 10 minute session.
You can do as many laps as you want.

Race 1
Race 1 is a 15 minute sprint race
Fuel is set to 2x and tyres at 3x
Damage is set to 50%

Race 2
Race 2 is a 40 minute race.
There is no compulsory pit stop this round. Pit stops are free.
The grid will be taken from the finish positions from race 1

Not a bad track track this one and probably one of my better runs in the GT3's

Had a couple of moments and finished 4th in the first race.

The second was going ok and was on for a strong position, until I came up on V8VP with 3000 ping or so. He appeared right in front of me causing a crash and damaging my car for the rest of the race  
Came home in about 8th   

Like Corty, I really enjoyed this track. I found a sweetish spot with the setup, took a heap of wing out of it compared to my base setups and it was much more to my liking.

Qualified 5th with a PB 20.1, jagged a lap right at the end of the session after a few aborted attempts.

Race 1, GroupC made a shocker start and I came to a complete stop behind him and got swamped by a few cars. Made a couple of errors in the race, fell back to 8th, finally finished 6th. It was pretty easy to fall off at the big right hander after Signes.

Race 2, ripper start, my best of the season. Banged panels with Fez through Signes on lap 1 where we were going through two abreast with Growler, then settled down into a rhythm of trying to keep it on the road whilst running with minimum revs. I was pretty happy with my stint, Corty fell off in front of me and I fell off in sympathy, then spun coming onto the back straight. Jason and Corty got by again. I got the head down then and pitted on lap 16, put too much fuel in it but knew I'd have enough to raise the revs a bit till the end. Ended up 4th and kept a consistent 27 odd second gap to ChrisRx in front of me which was good. Nailed a 19.8 on my last lap so pretty happy with that really.

I won't be at Sebring so will lose a bag (double bag) of points, I've got the QLD Hillclimb Championships on this weekend at Mount Cotton.

i wont be at next round either so 3rd is up for grabs. will be at winternats warm up at willowbank raceway. the joys of being a track commentator.