Race 7 & 8 F4 Summer Challenge

Free practice
I already knew the track and the car, so the free practice sessions were just a “warm-up”. The difficulty with this track is not to be fast, but to be consistently. The track is very narrow, which makes it difficult to overtake, but it also has almost no run-off areas, which means that a mistake mostly means the end of the race.
That’s why it was crucial for me to find a rhythm in the free practice sessions and to be fast long-term instead of pushing for hot laps.

Qualifying
Qualifying went almost perfectly. I was able to show what I could do on my first fast lap and provisionally secure pole position.
Unfortunately, I was held up by a slower car on my last fast lap, which forced me to abort my last push lap. Unfortunately, another driver was able to push on this last lap and take pole away from me by 0.05 seconds. So I started the race from 2nd place – the main thing was front row.

Race 1
The first race was characterised by exciting duels for victory and dramatic incidents of other riders, but I was able to stay out of them. I had to fight until the last lap, but I managed to finish the race in the lead and win the first race.

Race 2
I started race 2 from 10th place and had a lot to play for. I managed to fight my way up to 6th place on the first lap, but then I got too impatient in the battle for 4th place. I tried to do too much too quickly and touched the car in front of me, which caused damage to my front wing.

This put me at a disadvantage both on the straights and in the corners and I had to fight hard to keep my places. After an exhausting race, I still managed to bring the car home in 5th place.