Talkin' about my race, I noticed that lights turned off kinda faster than usual at start and most of the grid didn't have the reflexes to sprint in the right way (as you can see from Power's stats - still big thanks for that, buddy), so that I already had a gap from both cars in front and behind me after few seconds. While I was still realizing that, I noticed that Laf kinda slowed down to avoid some contact on the straight and, thanks to my higher pace, I decided to flank my car to his so that I can try the overtake at Turn 1. But I needed few metres more so I just focused on that and when I was happy about the result, my smile turned right after in a wtf moment when I noticed I totally missed the brake point. I completely smashed my spacebar (yeah, I brake with that key), but it was too late to prevent my wide turn, and when I tried to stay on road then I smashed the top side of the innocent Laf (big sorry for that >.<) for a big damage, while other cars overtook us easily.
"Perfect - I thought - I think I can't start my race worse than th..." and then it came turn 2. In which I basically got what I gave few seconds earlier. Tuero went too strong and he hit all Kid, Silva and me for another no-sense strike. By that point I was 15th I guess and with 88% left of engine. My destiny started to take form in this race.
What comforted me was that, as I said, a lot of people messed up these first turns, even strong opponents like Whippe or Jurge who gently kissed the rear of Tinjo and Mike Nike for example, so nothing was lost yet.
I started my personal desperate comeback by overtaking the first cars I had in front of me which were Tuero, Kid, Badoer and Augusto, then I spent a couple of laps behind Laf despite being a bit faster than him. When I was still realizing in which sector of the track I should've made the maneuvre, Azev and Jurgen, who were close to us as well, got stuck on the U Turn right before the final straight involving partly Laf and helping me to gain quickly some positions considering that I passed Jurgie and Laf during that chaos and Azevedo at Turn 1 of the following lap.
I was incredibly 8th and with no really competitors behind me, since Laf got sent offroad by Augusto and Azev had some fights with Jurgen in a F1 Full Contact race (their laps 6-7 are so fun
). So, I could've focused on reaching Silva (oh, his first 3 laps were amazing, overtaking a lot of cars at the same time with nonchalance and perfect direction lines, hats off clap clap) and Wurz who were battling for 6th place. The Portuguese looked kinda fragil by that point of the race, making small mistakes often, so that I got close to him kinda faster than expected. And then U Turn again. Silva got stuck just like the former Jonas did, and when I was about to overtake him, he decided to go wide horizontally and he hit me. -10%, 0 mph at the start of the straight and 78% of engine. At lap 10. Perfect!Entering in some rage mode, I decided to not pit cause it was still too early for 2 pits strategy, so I just tried to run at my best in order to get rid of Silva and Badoer that took advantage of the collision for getting closer to us. And I succeeded. Oh, during these laps I also overtook Jormelion at Turn 1 after he got off the pitlane, but suddenly I decided to give him space at Turn 3 cause a fight would've been useless for both of us.
"It's lap 16, I'll go to the box by the end of this lap and I'll finally have 100% of engine, thanks god. Wait, you know what? I'll try to stop by hitting the tyres at the end of the pitlane, I think it can work". Guess what happened? Yeah. I got stuck there and I lost 3 seconds. Fancy, isn't it? No big deal tho, SIlva and Badoer were still behind me (but significantly closer) and only MaxTre and Augusto gained some positions thanks to my pit, cars that I passed in not more than a couple of laps (my personal best overtaking maneuvre, that one to Augusto at lap 18) in order to get my 7th place again.
Wurz was 7 seconds distant now, so I set my target for this second stint: close this gap and fight after my 2nd stop.
I drove few consistent laps (T, dynamic charts maybe?
) and with a cool undercut + excellent pit I achieved my goal; Wurz was only 1.5s far now. Oh in the meanwhile both of us gained a position by overtaking Magnam on track after he decided to go for 1 pit but changing it after he got passed by both me and Wurz, nice one Croatian guy haha 
.Third and last stint was a nerves war (in fact both of us made few mistakes from time to time), the distance between me and Wurz decreased and increased and then decreased again from 0.6s to 1.5s, basically close but not enough for overtakes. Then something happened. Ayrton got in our way as a lapped car, and he started to race with us like nothing wrong was happening, keepin on making dirty turns and touching us (more Wurz than me tbh). Lap 47 and first part of 48 are really hilarious to watch, I also had to avoid a kamikaze attempt in there, lol.
And yeah, after this inconvenient I was finally behind that cyan rear of the shitalian's car since the gap was just by a couple of decimals. I started to put some pressure, but at the same time I realized Tinjo was coming for our arses and lap us (thing that I hate to "concede" - ndr) which meant basically one lap less for taking that prestigious 5th place. Few laps like that, pressuring and getting pressured, til the thriller lap 52. T is really close to us, I decide it may be the right moment to let him pass so that I can have some draft on the opposite straight since we are entering in the turn right before the U in the end, but I notice that Wurz brakes in a wrong way and goes slightly off, so I still keep some pace, and I finally overtake him while giving some space to T in the middle of the road. Basically he overtook both of us in something that can be considered as a nice show moment for the business. Now it was just a matter of keeping the position on the assault on Turn 1. The most critical moment of the entire race was coming, but I made it! The remaining 2 laps were ordinary administration from that moment til the end (even tho for some moments I randomly thought that T would've given us back that second and half for getting unlapped and finishing the race with full laps, but nah
)My strong comeback finished. In the most controversial race ever. I was exhasuted but happy, it was funny after all.
Poor Wurz, always kissing my ass :*
Although, before I start making stupid mistakes, the first laps were pure awesomeness! Great fights!