Also just want to mention that there can be an advantage depending on where your pitbox is located. If at the start of the pits you need to stop immediately and then travel 80kph for the whole pit straight to resume, whereas if at the far end you can take a fair bit of speed into the pits before the auto brakes slow down to 80. Its not much but could mean the difference between holding or gaining a position. Obviously this is only an issue on fast pit entry tracks.
I will need to check the replay because I dont know how I had a net gain in the last round during the pit against you. I pulled in behind by a little but took quite a few clicks to get my fuel number, felt like I wasted an hour but probably only a few seconds. Pretty sure my pit spot was after yours but we did enter at similar speeds, need to check replay. Possibly the merc needed lots more fuel in the stop as the Lotus only needed 70l to finish the race. This would have meant the time I lost early in the pit may have been gained back needing less fuel during the stop.
I held my lead until my tyres were spent on lap 10 so i came into the pits where it all went wrong lol my motec box flashed up and semi minimized my game so i couldnt touch my pit menu for like 5 secs or more so that cost me the lead and i came out behind Marty after he pitted, I think we made contact on the exit of t1 i think i was lagging a bit as i was a metre behind but he suddenly spun so i put two and two together and waited for him lol. I battled with marty until the finish but couldnt really do much to get past him as he kept pulling away down the straights too lol so i came 5th i think then too or 6th i forget lol
Yea that spin was very weird and didnt make sense at the time. I had come out of the pits so cold tyres but I got a fair entry into 1 and as good an exit into 2 as I could. My gearing was also set mostly for this corner and so I was gaining on most other lotuses out of this corner. I felt the bump a little after the apex when I was already full throttle, on entry your car really didnt look so close. Quite likely was lag involved because it doesnt make sense any other way. You couldnt have gained so much moment after the apex to have a big enough impact to put me into a full spin. Thanks for waiting and was hard work keeping you back there for the rest of the race.
What tyres were you running Matthew for them to go off on lap 10? I was on meds and Guy was also on meds but the gtc didnt have an option to run softs as they are rubbish. With aero I also ran 0 2 because I was loosing speed mid corner and exit with the lower wing but guy ran 0 0. Pretty sure gx has more downforce so gets away with lower wings and also has better tyres then the gtc but it has a bit more power.