Quali:This time I didn't really practised much for the race and got a set from Exodus 2 days ago.
Tweaked it a bit here and there and was able to do 1:24.36 in the afternoon in front of the TDC.
In the qualyfication I did 0.2s slower and the 4th place was OK.
Race:My plan was to stay out as long as possible but all went wrong

I passed Biaggi in T1 (woohoo 3rd) and was passed again by him (hm 4th again), I tried to pass him again and run wide in lap 2 and then GreyBull also passed me there (oh no 5th).
Then I was kind of stuck behind GreyBull and Dadge made lots of pressure from behind. He passed me but I counterattacked and passed again. But GreyBull was still right in front of me and I thought he will slow me down and the next time I try to pass him, Dadge will also maybe pass me if it went wrong, so I switched my pit strategy to an early stop and pitted in lap 5.
I came out right behind PM Hasse but could pass him quickly, then in lap 8 I could see Dadge coming out of the pits and thought "oh no not again" but he was in front by 7 tenth of a second at the 1st split.
At the end of the lap when he passed Deano and Franky who pitted in front of him I was on his back again but I tried to not attack him this time, as I know you loose more overall time then you gain.
I kept an eye on my and his tires and mine were looking way better so I thought "stay in your rythem and don't push your tires to hard Bernd". But in lap 14 I somehow mis-shifted and my clutch went red (Oh no). I tried to drive more carefull for the next couple of laps to get the red colour back to orange. During that Dadge was away by a bit over 2 seconds.
Then I saw Jouman standing in the pits in lap 16 and wondered if he will get new tires or something as it took so long.
In the next laps I could hold the distance to Dadge and thought "hopefully he will loose some time when he closes up with P1LOT and Exodus" and he did in lap 26 after we both passed 3j (in the pits) I was only ~1 second away but soon after that both T7R guys in front of him pitted.
Then I started to calculate and asked myself to much questions (starting to think about the racing itself is a bad thing while racing but sometimes it happens

). I wondered if 3j got new tires as his tires looked as good as mine and then I made one little mistake after another. Breaked a bit to late here, slided there and 3j was coming closer and closer.
To not risk anything (as 3j is often not knowing any friend or foe when he wants to pass

) I opend the door and let him through. I thought I can catch up and use the draft to maybe also pass Biaggi who was about to pit during that lap, instead of loosing time while fighting with Three Jump.
But unlucky for me Biaggi came out of the pits right in front of me and drove between me and three jump. Then on the straights in this lap he got slipstream from 3j (that was my plan

) and I couldn't catch up again.
In the end I was only 0.75 seconds behind. And I found it funny that we three (3j,Biaggi and me) all got a 1:24.91 fastest lap. A 4th place is better then nothing and so I say it was a good race but I have to work on these little mistakes that have cost me again the podium.