Sturup STCC

Three drivers penalized 1 lap each for not serving a drive-though after punting another driver.

I only reviewed the first 5 laps. If there are others after that, please file a proper protest and it will be taken care of.

Q: Well...not my best time but enough for pole position and new record.

R: Managed to keep Pete and Aleš behind me (barely) and started to gain some room. In 18th lap I went to pits for new sets of tires which made a big difference in second part of the race. I fell to 3rd place exiting from pits but managed to get back 1st place few laps before finish. Nice battle with Pete, other than that nothing special.

Congrats to podium.

Ahh... the Online vs. Offline setup debate STILL continues for me.

Had a good setup (offline) when I practiced. Got the car dialed down into the 02.9's to 03.1's. Online, different story.

Qual: Was expecting the car to be in the low 03's maybe into the 02's if I got a smooth run, with so much traffic the best I could manage was an 06.2 until I got a decent break with 3 laps left. Managed a 03.4. Got me a disappointing 15th.

Race: Had an awesome start, went from 15t to 11th by T1. Battled a few people, then got into an awesome fight for 8th with Crash, Robbins, Gribble and Pearson. Eventually something had to give, so I drew the short straw and punted Matt Crash. OK, I can live with that. Slowed to do my D/T, and ONCE AGAIN the Swedish find a way to ruin a good race, for the 2nd race in a row, in this series, the troll that guards the pit entrance decided to wreck my car. So served my D/T after doing a 4 point turn to get into the right direction. Then came around again to fixed what got F'd up on the D/T. By that time I was pretty much out of the fight and just trying to bend the laws of physics playing catch up. Caught a few guys, then Race Control help propel me a few more spots by handing out Penalties.

My team mate and I both had top ten cars today. What a disappointing race. It has not been a good weekend for OTHRjr.

Hopefully the next one will be better.

Matt Crash, sorry about earlier. I was clearly in he wrong. Many apologies.

I decided to do a no pit strategy and it worked out pretty good. I managed to avoid trouble early on and set out to run consistent laps, without burning up the tires. After the pits, I was in 4th place with the closest car about 10 seconds behind. I could not hold the gap though as my tires started to wear out. My teamate Dan was the first to catch me, then Martin, and Jack. On the final lap Michael Gribble was close behind me and I was hoping to hold onto 8th position. He bumped me on a sharp right hander and sent me way wide, but he did not make the pass. Excellent sportsmanship! Was a lot of fun.

Nice race by everyone. I decided to not pit but a great battles in the opening laps with Kenny and Martin made me run my tires much harder than I would have liked. Great fun though. I got my second tires worn warning at a little past half way and decided that I would be in trouble if I didn't stop. Was very happy to finish top 5.

Congrats to podium

I should've taken hint when during practice I got punted by the same driver on two laps (one right after the other). No names, but you know who you are - that was a really crappy move in my opinion. Moreover, you did it in spite of my moving over to let you and your friend race.

Qual: I hadn't worked on a hot lap setup as I was trying to get a safe race setup put together up until the last minute of practice. All the more why I was annoyed when my practice was interrupted.

Race: I got spun around going into T1 and damaged my suspension on the first lap. The car was driveable, and pitting was not a part of my strategy so I stayed out. Later, I T-boned Matt Crash - he was sitting sideways on the track, between my worn tires and suspension I couldn't put the car when I wanted it to go (sorry Matt!). I also had trouble slowing down when Martin passed me, we touched, he slid sideways but kept it straight (nice job and sorry again Martin). Then I got mixed up with some lap cars who were faster than me - Colin hit me from behind, and a lap later we both tried to occupy the same space going into T1 - he was on the outside and unfortunately got the worst of it.

That's it - better luck next time I guess.

Overall I was very happy with my performance this race. I didn't qualify as good as I hoped, but still wasn't too bad.

I had a very consistent race though with very few mistakes, only 1 of which sent me offroad. Towards the end of the race Ryan, Dan, and I were having a pretty good battle for 5th-7th but it got broken up on lap 32 when Hugo spun his car and I slammed into him(no worries mate, I should have done a better job of avoiding). After that I was scrambling to catch back up. On the last lap I got a little over zealous and punted Ryan (sorry about that, I'm just glad it didn't send you any farther off than it did), so I let him get back on track and finish in front of me, leaving me a solid 9th finish.

My no-stop strategy was pretty much ruined when I was shoved off by a car I'd just lapped. Carrying 'Suspension Damage' cost only a little on the handling, but wore the tyres way faster than planned and I was already 3 seconds off the pace with 10 laps to go. By that time, though, it was really too late to stop, so I just limped round as best I could. Got lucky to keep 2nd spot when Ales had to take a splash of fuel right at the end. Grats to Marko for a well deserved win.

Another 1 lap penalty applied for not serving mandatory drive-through after punt.