2023-11-05 Class A Pro #14 Phoenix Raceway

Sorry Petr. With cars behind and on a higher line at the same speed I didn’t want to risk to go up in front of them. And then you came (for me) out of nowhere and I made an even worse decision. My car wasn’t turning enough. My bad.

I hope atleast you didn’t had a meatball afterwards.

Aber das fasst sehr gut mein Jahr zusammen. Dafür braucht man echt nicht trainieren

A race to forget... 2 accidents and a magnet for me.

In the first accident a lot of things happen besides that more than one doesn't know how to use the brakes, Eric and I couldn't do anything even though it was going to be a low speed accident with little damage but it wasn't like that because from behind they didn't see it or they didn't react in time. 3 minutes of repair under green flag even so the first few laps the leaders took time off me but when the wear came I was lapping the same or faster.

2nd accident I see that the car is going with 2 laps on the tyres, there comes a time when I think he has the car under control and continues forward but the frame of the windscreen covers it and when I least expect it I eat it.

Schade, hätte das gerne unter grün zu Ende gefahren. Dann wäre es wohl hinter Jakub und Dani für mich spannend geworden.

Sorry an Manuel für den kleinen Klapps auf den Po. Hast es ja dann später mit der dive bomb ausgeglichen

War nett, viele enge fights...

@ Dani

Mitte des Rennes wollte ich eigentlich gar nicht fighten. Das Diven hat mich dann aber getriggert

Quote from Thomas Nolden

Aber das fasst sehr gut mein Jahr zusammen. Dafür braucht man echt nicht trainieren

das ist echt krass, nolden... jedes rennen.... nicht normal...

rennen war ganz gut für mich. pace war ok und dann ein wenig YF glück.

sorry roland für die verwirrung bei meinem green pit. ich hab da grad gesehen, dass ich keine lap mehr schaffe. sorry.

I don't know why I can't drive more then one lap at this track in this league.... I did two full distance races this weekend without any issues. Tonight I drove it smooth in the dogleg without any weird steering inputs or clipping the apron or whatever, but it just snapped...

Sorry for those involved, but I truly have no clue what to do differently....

Rough race, carrying 1 minute of optional damage into the long green run.
I feel the 2 stop strategy was a good call, if not somewhat risky.
Not sure if it was good enough to fight Jacub, but nothing seemed to be good enough for that today.

Well done on a very dominant performance. I was for sure thinking you would make two pitstops with the pace you put down on the first stint. But you didn't.

We met on two incidents José, bad luck... Don't think others behind us could do that much on the lap 2 incident. Just an ugly point to have that happen.
I see some people fearing the inside of the dogleg, but I fear the regular part of it more early on. I have had my car snap like Jeroen's did, tho that happened while being a bit lower down.

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Schade, hätte das gerne unter grün zu Ende gefahren. Dann wäre es wohl hinter Jakub und Dani für mich spannend geworden.

Sorry an Manuel für den kleinen Klapps auf den Po. Hast es ja dann später mit der dive bomb ausgeglichen

War nett, viele enge fights...

@ Dani

Mitte des Rennes wollte ich eigentlich gar nicht fighten. Das Diven hat mich dann aber getriggert

ja wäre auch gern unter grün zu Ende gefahren. Die caution kam mega ungünstig.

Ja dachte ich muss da es da jetzt probieren. Hab dir aber versucht immer schön Luft zu lassen. War aber schönes racing.

Leider mein ersten stint total verhauen. War loose as hell mit 79/58 Reifenwerte

Danach BB erhöht und langsamer gemacht und siehe da es ging besser. P6 am Ende ist mehr als ein blaues Auge für mich.

funfact: kaum gibts ein wenig spannung mit cautions habe ich ein gutes finish

Ohne Q ins Rennen, da ich noch F1 geschaut hatte. War auch egal, wenn man eh nicht klar kommt. Ging dann doch besser als erwartet, hing nur im spanisch-tschechischen Pulk fest und es dauerte etwas, eh man sich da durch gekämpft hat.

Die 2-Stop-Strategie war ansich schon ok, nur dass ich den Rückstand von 4-5s als Bürde nicht mehr los wurde.

Und dann kam die letzte YF auch noch im beschissensten Zeitpunkt. War knapp 2L zurück und WA hat mir halt nur eine zurück gegeben, LD gabs dann zwar, aber nicht für mich. Ergo mit Jesus um den 16.Platz gefightet, mit dem besseren Ende für mich.

Again a very good race yesterday. I felt super good during the practice with my long run pace. I didn't know how I would do in qualifying, but lucky for me, I was able to make a decent lap, which was enough for the second place behind Daniel. After the green flag, I dropped down in the order a little bit, but we had a quick caution. After the restart I lined up behind Daniel. I saw that we were pulling away from the guys behind us. I tried to manage the tires best as I can in the early laps. Then I noticed that Daniel was starting to struggle a bit with the tires, so I was able to take the lead in the race. It's a shame that it didn't go under the green until the end. I noticed that quite a few guys chose a different strategy. It would be interesting. In the final run to the finish, I felt very good with my pace. I was able to built some gap to Carsten behind me. For some reason I do well on this oval with these cars.

Very happy with my fourth win of the season in the Class A Pro Series. A dream season for me so far. Only four races are remaining. I look forward to it. We'll see how the race in Atlanta turns out.

Hello everyone! I don't use to talk here but I want to start doing so just to get to know each other a little better.

I don't know what problems there were in recent weeks but I hope they have been solved.

My race in Phoenix was good, starting without qualifying and having very clean and funny fights. I enjoyed it a lot.

I know I'm not the fastest driver, but I try to do my best, both fighting in the race and letting the leaders pass.

I'm looking forward to the next race. Greetings to all. Happy week!

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