[Donnchadh MacGarry]

Hello, these are my two setups from yesterdays race at Paul Ricard. Big thanks to Simon Speth for sending me his own setup, i didn't end up using it in a race, but it gave me some ideas how to improve mine.

I wasn't going to do Sundays race as I was a bit off pace and didn't want to put the practice in to get a better setup as I hate Paul Ricard. I didn't care that would have cost me a chance at winning the championship, I do this for fun and that track for me is just mind-numbingly the antithesis of fun. However I decided to do the race when you put this setup, as I was immediately a second better with it and could get in the 1:50.XXX with softs. This meant I could compete up top at least to have some enjoyment on that track, major thanks for that.

As Simon just said, I reckon this will be a good setup to initially try for Spa since it has good top speed. I think it will be more important to maximise that for sectors 1 and 3 rather then adding downforce for sector 2. Maybe having more downforce won't have too much of a negative effect in qualifying, but in the races I think its best to have low downforce for high topspeed as it makes overtaking and defending on the long straights much easier. This is partially influenced by my experience at Spa with the Williams FW31 F1 car, that was raced a few months ago on SRS, which also was an hour race. I ran with a relatively medium downforce setting in that race, there was only one race a week for that series. I qualified 4th I think, but was in a huge lap 1 crash at the start of the race which sent me to the back of the grid as I needed to teleport to the pit for major repairs. I managed to make my way back up the grid but once I got back into the top ten, it became impossible for me to ovetake a certain driver on a much lower downforce setup than mine. While I could catch up to that driver in sector 2 (who I out qualified by a good bit from my memory), it was never enough to get close to make an overtake. Then on the straights they just further re-extended their lead as their topspeed was better than mine even when I was slipstreaming. The process would happen over and over again each lap and I ended up making a mistake and spinning out, as I was pushing so much to try and make something happen in the sections that is harder to overtake on.