We had our first big race of the season yesterday.
It was a combined RC-Lemans and Dutch national Championship race on the huge and super-fast track of Rucphen.
On saturday we had 21 drivers in Pro10.
Unfortunately we had rain in sunday, therefore only 7 drivers actually raced.
Qualifying was wet, finals were drying, but still wet enough to give really difficult conditions and tough tire choices.
I TQ'd in the rain.
In the first final the track still was damp, so we all slid around. It was just a matter of control.
I got too nervous in the opening minute, which cost me the win in A1.
In the last minutes I got it together. I had the fastest lap time by 2 seconds and fell one lap short to catch up with the leader. He was just 2 meters away when crossing the line and I was gaining really fast.
In the second final the track was mainly dry with some wet spots.
I made a last minuted descision to swap to tires without traction compound applied of a full dry-full traction compound aplied set.
This time I kept my nerve and ran a strategic race, not taking any risks and forcing others to push too much. I came in at 3rd.
This gave me the overall win!
3 races running for Corally: 2 second places and one big win!
I will post a link to the pictures when they come online.