Great racing Saturday night! Congrats to Garage on his win(s)
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I've always use automatic when I've raced, but the car was so dang slow, I ended up switching to manual when we started to qualify. Needless to say, I didn't qualify too well and it took me some time to get used to using a couple extra buttons on the DS3. I lost too much time in the first race, but eventually got the hang of it and finished mid pack.
Race 2 was very exciting, with about 5 of us racing for the lead hard for the first 10 laps or so. Getting used to manual and racing with those who put down fast laps in practice and in the first race really helped me. Eventually Garage, Bionic, and I broke away from the pack and had a great battle for quite a few laps. Unfortunately, I nailed the chicane and lost a bunch of time. While trying to chase them back down, it seemed hopeless. Without the draft, I started to drift back. I did start to close back in when Garage and Bionic began battling hard for the lead and racing side by side. Unfortunately, that's when I hit the damn chicane again, ending any chance at victory
. I did catch up to Bionic when he got into the chicane with 2 to go, and we had a good battle to the finish. But he got a good run coming off the roundabout on the last lap and slipped ahead of me. I tried to push it into the final chicane, but found myself hitting it one final time in my desperation to catch and pass him.
Congrats once again to Garage on his "unofficial" win in race 1 and official win in race 2. And great (what should be the official) win in the 1st race by...crap, who finished 2nd? Was it Wins?? Sorry that I can't remember.