Nice battle with Tom indeed. We had same pace in qualifying and in the beginning of the race.

I was surprised to see the engine fading away so quickly and i had to do something after 10-15 laps.

I start to upshift and downshift earlier but still 1 percent of engine damage and i was still in danger.

So i saw that most of the time the engine is sufering from shifting so i put on the automatic clutch and now the wear was around 0.5 per lap and i had no problem to finish the race.

On the pit stop i lost around 15 seconds because i start the engine too early and the refueling stop.

Fortunately after the pit stop i was driving with Nilski's pace and i was able to be just in front of him after he went of the pit.