I had a wet race where I pitted both cars just before the rain started, but it didn't start for another lap and so the wets that I put on both cars were a quarter worn before they were competitive, and what's worse is that I should have put intermediates on. The track was truly wet for two laps, and was only wet enough for intermediate tyres the rest of the time. It was such a stuff-up that I gave up until the drivers complained about their tyres and I switched them to dries. Maybe I could have switched them to dries at the right time, but I was so devastated by how badly I'd screwed up the strategy. We were on for a podium, or points at least and it would have put us in a better position in the championship. Who knows what the rest of the season could have been like.
After looking at the screenshots, I think that Cape Town might have been worse than Beijing.
Then I had a race much later in the season where I got to put my reserve driver into one of the cars for the actual race. I have Sergio Arbeloa, who I used to watch win all the time in the European Racing Series. He qualified 12th and Johnny Navarro was 18th. My weather forecast said that it was going to be wet two laps in, so I had both drivers start on intermediate tyres. The first two laps were tough, especially as Arbeloa fell straight to the back with Johnny, but then the rain hit and we sliced through the field until we were 4th and 5th for a moment and then started falling back late in the race. The track dried up, but I kept running Johnny because he was better on tyre wear and it was going to rain in the last two laps. I pitted Arbeloa because he wanted to be on dry tyres, while Johnny would have been 17th if he pitted or something. It didn't end too badly. We finished 12th and 13th. Not bad at all.
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