Well in round one of the Saturday practice session, I did some more laps in manual gear with no driving lines... I also made some laps with some front runners just to get used to cars in front and behind me.  I also began to run on soft tires and my lap times didn't go down nor up.  But this test was critical because it allowed me to get used to the tires.  I didn't pay much attention to lap times anymore, but on half fuel load, I did a lot of 1:31s to 1:32s.  I think this would be the race pace.