So something awesome happened tonight. It was the penultimate race of the rookie league and was at Monza. I’d practiced a bit but not as much as I did for the previous round at Zandvoort. After all that practice to have it ended in the first few laps, I felt it pointless spending too many hours at it.
Anyway, I’m FP there was 3 or 4 of us very close together at the top of the time board and I think I ended up 2nd. In qualy I got out early and got to the top of the board with a 1:49.4ish. Over the next 10mins I slowly moved down to 3rd. I keep circling round and I start my final lap just before the timer runs out. I’m the last person to complete a lap and I smash pole by 0.144 with a 1:49.0 😬
Onto the race then. At the front and still in a daze I leave my setup screen and sit on the grid quite early so by the start of the rolling start my tyres are blue! Fortunately I managed to stay in first round the first chicane and from there I just pulled away a few tenths each sector and built a nice gap of about 4 seconds after 10mins. After this the guy in 3rd got into 2nd and then the chase began! We were trading blows per sector, he’d close in a few tenths and I’d pull it back. Over time though he edged closer and closer. Once he got to within 2 seconds I was in full panic mode. The mistakes started coming, brake too early, too late, hit the high sausage curb, etc all bringing him even closer. Thankfully I calmed it down and got it back to 2 seconds at which point he started to run out of fuel and so…. I WON! 🥳 🙌🏻
