Galicia Indoor Series took place in Ponteareas on the weekend of 10/11 November . The track was indoor carpet and the layout was kind of a copy of the last ETS in Italy. I've raced on carpet actually just once and even there aren't any tracks for practicing indoor I decided to go into the race a try my best and since I had the time for practice on Saturday I believed it would not be be that bad.
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Qualifying
Since this was the first time I went to this event I was placed in a random heat and I must say that I didn´t get much luck. Although all drivers respect me in the heat and I must say "Thank You", there were drivers that I had to overtake for almost 10 laps in a 5 minutes heat and making my best 5 minutes time was not an easy task. In the end I qualified 4th. My team mate Helder Silva with his T4 was the pace man and TQ'ed 3 out of the 4 rounds and ended up with 1st spot for A-main.
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Finals
In the first A-main Helder Silva domination continued and it looked like he was going to bring home the title, but from domination to the most unlucky driver is just a small step and he ended up with 2 DNF in the last mains. I had a hard work from 4th place on the grid, but my car was really great and let me drive it at the limit, just a weird feeling on the brakes that i cannot manage to solve by the ESC setup and have to adapt myself into it. In the end I got tied in points with 1st place, but the main I won was a bit slower.
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Final results:
1. Javier Hidalgo 2. Jorge Simoes - XRAY T4
3. Damian Garcia 4. Fran Mino - XRAY T3 2012
5. Pablo Fernandez 6. Helder Silva - XRAY T4
7. Jorge Parga - XRAY T4
8. Naito Chafer
9. Alberto Malga 10. Inaki Otero - XRAY T3 2012
