MJ Fix Test Results and Drivers Statements

[Jeroen Goedhart]

practice:

with 5 mins to go, and 1.24.7 on the timesheet i decided not to push anymore. Paul K had a 1.25.6 almost 1 second down compared to my time. Therefore i wanted to get used to the higher fuelload. Suprisingly he beat me in the last few minutes. Last monday Paul was driving ferrari, so i thought he needed a bit more time to get aquinted to his matra again.
Wolfgang was not far behind, so we alligned all 3 on the grid.

Race:

I had a clean start and decided not psuhing too hard. Paul had a clean start, but in lap 2 i managed to overtake him . After that Paul tried to force me in an error,cause he was muich faster in the begin , but i knew that there is only one pass opportunity which is in the first corner after start finish. Although very tricky it is possible to overtake there if you can slipstream enough.
Paul tried to do that, but sadly he did hit me, and i lost 5 places. HC spun in the same corner cause he had nowhere to go once i got spun. So i had to start to chase the other fellow drivers. Lap after lap i managed to overtake others in a clean way.
I had some though but very fair battles with wolfgang who had a suprisingly pace in his ferrari. In the first few laps everybody was very close together. It took me about 10 laps to get behind paul again, and in lap 14 i overtook paul in the first corner while having a better exit from the previous corners. It was a very nice fight. WE had a fearce battle. Sometimes we did hit each other, but it was a fair battle all the time. Paul tried to pass a few times in the first corner, but i kept the inside , so there was no way that he could pass.
Tommy was very fast as well. He was 3rd quite a long time. He only came close when i made some small errors.
At some point Paul was suddenly gone, so the pressure was gone.
I noticed that all drivers who did get a blue flag gave enough room for the faster drivers. Well done!
Congratulations to all finishers! 40 laps was very hard, but the passed on very very fast.
I am stunned by the real drivers who managed to avoid the guardrail for about 40 laps. This track is even harder then monaco.

Looking forward to the next test at RSL


btw....

no real fps problems, or stutters. The track was clean and smooth.
System: p4 , 6400 dual core, sapphire ati radeon 1950pro.
omega drivers.

cheers

Jeroen