Best weekend I had in quite a while. Practice really paid off and I had some brilliant saves where I would've normally crashed. The only thing that didn't happen was Adam and Tony taking each other out, but there were some close calls, especially with the Aston. Just a bit more ahead and I could've snuck through.
With the M5, I had nothing for the duo, but I clung to Brock despite how I struggled with the last corner. Favorite moment was going for the pass at the hairpin on the last lap. Think I scared him like with me at Motegi. That or he was diamoning the corner, something that I usually do there.
Next week, back to our regular programming, me racing with the other humans.
Me? scared?!
jk. But tbh, I had basically given up (out of utter frustration) completely at the point when you had passed me...c'mon, I'm not that easy of a lay! lol
On a more serious note, I think my realistic expectations of catching Tony & Adam faded quite early in the race, as by the time I had gotten around you they had already pulled out a bit of a gap which put me in a tough position. I felt my only option at that point (as Adam really seemed to be in a hurry) was to push as much as possible to try and close up to where I was safely in their draft (not getting a unexpected tow here and there only to misjudge my braking point). Unfortunately in the process, I was driving a bit dodgy on the whole (probably from the usual aggravation of prior races) and braking way too late which ended up taking too much out of my tires early on (trying to make up the precious tenths I needed to get back into the draft). This early push and over indulgence of the tires when braking, unsuprisingly turned into a bit of an avalanche affect as the race progressed.
I think my recent unability to put together a clean racing weekend, let alone even a legitmate race for the win (I haven't even gotten a single win yet) is really starting to wear on me. I continue to manage to put myself in a comprimised starting position for the final race time and time again, by either making some completly numpty decisions (stupid stuff that often doesn't relate directly to driving) early in the first 2 crucial heat races, or just by general bad luck (DC's, getting taken out, etc.)/small things that time and time again seem to largely play against me in the bigger picture.
I probably sound like a big baby at this point...but it's almost become comical as to how my weekend will unravel next. My luck seems to be about as good as Schumacher's or Jeff Gorden's atm (if I perform well then something else will let me down, if I perform poorly then everything else will go smoothly and there's nothing to blame but myself)...regardless it seems I can't have a weekend without one or the other going wrong
Seems like its a pretty consistant trend that I've had in a lot of GT5 series races though.
This weekend it all started off by exiting the first races qualy session way early and not being able to get back in (since we were doing qualy in race mode)...which was a total brain fart on my part
I don't like to go too far into the if's/but's/could've's...but the knockdown affect this mistake had, not only affected what happened at the start of my race (starting in the mid pack mayhem/bumper cars), but also what would transpire later in that race (getting collected in an accident in front of me), as well as affecting my mind set/aggressiveness (and what I needed to do) in the following race to secure a legit starting position for the final race.
It was funny because I thought I had finally caught a little break when you had your little moment and almost collected Adam in race 2...but all this did was allow Tony to catch back up to our draft pack.
Can't say I was suprised though
Anyway, enough of my usual moaning (at least I'm dramatic
lmao). Now hopefully I can just get at least a win in before the season is over. See ya guys next weekend!
