Everyone says Monaco is always a nightmare of a race but my nightmare started even before the race. In short i ended up in hospital in lots of pain (I'm ok now but looking like surgery in the near future) and worried i wasn't going to be able to race last night but i happily was able to run anyway on a heap of painkillers so here's my story for the race.
Qualifying on pole at a place like Monaco is an amazing feeling and to do it by nearly 4 tenths despite only running some quick laps an hour prior just made it so much better (lap will be included). I put balls to the wall on that lap so i hope you guys enjoy watching
The race however was anything but amazing. Starting 1st the aim was to launch off the line and get into turn 1 first which i did however it looked chaotic in the mid-field. Ended up leading the first 16 laps until the safety car came and i presume lag was involved when my delta time went from 4 tenths in the green to 3 seconds in the red and with everyone lagged back by a few seconds i got an instant penalty which forced me to give up the lead a lap later to serve a drive through.
Lap 28 was my get out of jail free card when the second safety car came out. Ended up putting super softs on and all was good until lag once again caught me out when Nigel's Mercedes lag back into mine and completely took the front wing off just before the restart and having to pit again along with @JonoStan96 who i presume had the same issue. And the rest was a bit of a mystery how i managed to make up so much time in so little time. After everybody else pitted again i resumed the lead again but soon after @razor4797 caught up relatively quickly and after clipping the wall at tabac he ended up getting past easily. After that @its-benny-racer was setting fastest laps of the race and in no time was right on my gearbox. However unlike the battle with razor i ended up battling with Benny for several laps until he got a better run out of the final corner and once alongside i just let him go knowing holding him up any further could result in him making a rash move and being on the receiving end of things.
Jono at this stage was 30 seconds back so i backed off the pace and intended on cruising to an easy 3rd place until lap 74 when i clipped the wall at Tabac again and spun 180 degrees facing the wrong way. I thought if i reversed backwards i might get disqualified so i did a crappy flick spin which ended up resulting in a red front end plate which i had to drive with for the last 5 laps.
In the end i was happy with 3rd especially with all the crap that happened with the lag. Congrats to Benny for the win and for a well driven race. And also to Razor for finishing second. I'll also apologise to you razor because i had turned notifications off during the race so i didn't know about our incident until this morning.
Congrats also to @JonoStan96 @LITTLEBLACKO942 @Hatfield @Knuckles and finally @Jurassic Mark for all finishing such a tough event. I will hopefully see you guys at Catalunya next week.
Pole Lap
Last edited: May 12, 2017