Sounds like top split on Saturday was not the only interesting action-packed split
. Shadni, you said you started on p47, were there any Porsches at all, or just GT3s?
The Porsche field I was in actually managed to make it through T1 in one piece this time. I started in 14th so I feared the worst. Around the rest of the GP circuit there was quite a bit of chaos ahead of me but I managed to get through it all.
About 3 laps in there was a lost Mercedes behind me in Flugplatz. He started flashing and I thought it would be a good opportunity to let him by there. What I forgot is that you can't really put a Porsche on the outside after Flugplatz without slowing down... So I brushed the wall and got myself some aero damage, one of the most stupid things I've done in a long time (not counting stopping before the finish in a league race
).
My strategy was to do 9-8-6-6 laps but I wanted to pit in sooner because of the damage so I changed it to 8-9-6-6 laps. This is so that I could take tires the first two stints and then double stint only 12 laps worth. In hindsight, it probably would have been worth it to double stint twice in the race.
I got my fast repair during my first pit stop and after that I managed to stay up to pace and gain some positions (somehow doing a 8:08.5 on one lap). Overtaking worked out well, I could catch up to a few Porsches and then overtake them on a straight and then slowly but surely drive away from them.
Then, shortly after the last stop I was driving up Kesselchen by myself while watching my fuel and doing some calculations. At this point I had pitted out on old tires, which I forgot while messing around with fuel. So, up came Mutkurve and I braked too late, causing me to clip the wall quite badly: car toast. I can only blame myself but it was too bad because I was heading for a 4th place finish.
On the other hand, it's probably a good thing that I crashed because as you can check, my 9-8-6-6 strategy equals 29 laps and in the results I discovered that the Porsche leaders did 30 laps :|. I would have had to pit in for 11 L which would probably have cost me a position or two.