Finally! A 1'09 is mine!

Only one 1'09. I guess that makes it very special!

Today was cold in the morning but it was actually quite hot in the sun when I did this run near midday. Its great that its a little cooler again as its not so hard on the car. It was quite hard to get space on the track today. A lot of cars were fast on the straight but slowish on the corners so I just couldn't pass them. Even hanging back a bit, they seemed forever to be in my way. I did have space for the first few laps though and you can really see the difference in the lap times. Gotta try different strategies for this me thinks. Its a pain wasting valuable lap time braking early because someone braked in front of you also. Good racing practice I suppose...

Today I really wanted to crack 1'10. I tried a few different lines in different corners and I feel that some of them worked so need to review my video footage again to see what I did differently. I'm still either understeering or oversteering around the corners though and my tires still scream for mercy.

Today again I felt that I'm turning too late into a corner. I felt that I was very slow around the 1st hairpin sometimes it felt that I was almost stopped. Definitely loosing too much momentum there. I did better on the last corner in the 3rd session by trying a wider line. I glanced down at the speedo in the middle of the 1st corner once and saw it at 80kmph which quite surprised me. I also noticed that its really hard to brake and change down into 3rd for the last corner without dropping the speed under 120. I guess I haven't looked at speeds like this in a while as I remember back in April entering the last corner at around 135 or so. So going to have to try something else there to keep my speed up. Perhaps, I should try just going around in 4th at different speeds and see what feels good. Take the whole gear change variable out of it. Maybe my next first session at TC2000 I'll do that. 4th for last corner, 3rd for all other corners. I wonder what the lap times would be like.

Taking into consideration other sessions my top 5 times today were:

Including all sessions, top 5 times for the record were:
1. 1'09.774 - 28.278 28.752 12.744 - 153.649 km/h
2. 1'10.006 - 28.522 28.841 12.643 - 155.083 km/h
3. 1'10.176 - 28.899 28.757 12.520 - 152.910 km/h
4. 1'10.210 - 28.833 28.577 12.800 - 153.474 km/h
5. 1'10.335 - 28.959 28.621 12.755 - 153.105 km/h

Hmm. A virtual best of: 1'09.375. Again, best sectors are not pieced together into the best laps. 1'09s will hopefully become more common after today. I'm even eye'ing up 1'08 now.