next stint, i went for the box last night after lap 9, just fuel and some small repairs. the track was cooling down on and on so the elise was sliding more and more. and here i faced a major problem of cold tires, which appears below 60 degree celcius. if you enter a curve, the front tires will heat up and within the curve the grip on the front increases so the car tends to snap steer towards inside of the curve. this renders the car into a very sensitive vehicle. my lap times are about 8:10, placed on position 12 and without any major troubles to hold this position. at lap 12 i was overlapping the first car, the stock elise, and 1 lap later i overlapped the slowest porsches and the m3. at the end of lap 9, it was time again for the pit. fuel, new front tires (they were at 21 and 20, quite impossible to stay out for another stint). i decided to keep the rears for at least one stint because the night will cool down the track more and more and so there would be no other tire left than the softs and i have to manage the car on those cold tires.