On to season 2! We were pretty ticked to have lost ground in the R&D battle, but I suppose it was sort of merited by all the cars we ruined as rookies. Of course, I'm confident the game isn't built to connect those dots, but it works out in a way that's not totally unreasonable.
Well THERE's a finish! First human podium of the career. I felt (and still feel) slightly guilty that we didn't turn up the difficulty even more than we did, because that's just too easy. But a huge sign of encouragement for me in my second season. Brett only finished 9th, but did secure fast lap, so a great day for him too.
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Ferrari got the strategy decently right this time around; Schumacher and Gasly were the ones handed a handicap of hard tyres on this day.
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It looks like it may have made a difference on this day for Brett because of that fact. He outqualified me and ran right on my tail for the first half dozen laps before a slight spin moved him down and out of the points. Before you ask, no, it wasn't my fault; just a lonely spin, probably at the hairpin if I had to guess. He went for the undercut at this point, and was able to work himself back up past Tsunoda, Bottas and Gasly, and up to Sainz and Schumacher (who was developing a bit of a train after his switch to hards.
I, meanwhile, had been able to hang with one of the Mercedes throughout the first stint, and was able to get them both along with Norris, running second for a lap or two. Norris got by me, but he was unable to get more than a second or two ahead of me. Meanwhile, the hard-shod Mercedes helped me build a bit of a gap to the cars running behind me, and after things sorted themselves out behind me Perez continued to battle Hamilton for 4th, slowing themselves down enough that I was able to maintain the gap until the very end.
Hell of a day.
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