FIA Race at Laguna Seca

I was hoping for good results, given I know the track quite well. But I was hampered a tiny bit by the Aston not really being the best fit for this track, but what really set me back was having to qualify on hard tires! It happened to me twice, someone on Reddit suggests that you have to be careful and change the front tires first, hoping that is what it was.

So had a nightmare qualification and ended up 18th from 19 on the grid... well, lets just see what we can do with strategy... turn down the engine and extend the hard tires to save fuel...  

So at lap 4 I was 13th and headed for the pits with 70 liters of Fuel left, on with the mediums and 19 liters of fuel, away we go, back in 19th (last place)...

By lap 10 I am up to 9th place by running some consistent 1:32 / 1:33 laps, with this being a 15 lap race I wanted to try and get some benefit from the softs without having to try and save them, so into the pits we go... (as we had turned up the engine we had 40 liters of fuel left)

On with the soft tires and a splash of fuel (5 liters) away we go, rejoining in 14th place, what can we do from here to the end of the race?

Final lap, in 8th place battling with a Mustang and Ferrari, too much power with an inside wheel on the paint.... S P I N... around we go, managed to recover, only loosing a couple of seconds, over the line in 9th (as the Mustang overshot the last bend), promoted to 5th due to penalties for others (not using all tire types = 60 second penalty!). 

That was a good result for me, especially coming from the back of the grid. 8 FIA Points for that race.