Niagara's Weekly What I saw Column
20241006 Edition:
A little late publishing my column this week. Work asking a lot out of me this week and it'll be the same next two weeks.
@Worst_Driver - Awesome that you were able to take a pic of your real car with the same backdrop of a scape that is in the game.
@radliffracing ,
@Mac1032763 - Happy you and yours are safe after the week you've had. Your Snail community was thinking of you guys.
Smaller than typical grid in D1 last Sunday with only 6 drivers but still an enjoyable evening. Looks like D2 had 9. Snail Spec Racing does not require pit-stops in their races but that didn't stop some drivers from heading into them anyhow.
Combo#1:
I don't think we managed to get through the 1st lap in either race without our group being split up. I saw
@DublDee lose his grip early in C1R1.
But I also saw get his position back shortly afterwards with a 2 for 1 pass when
@Dragonwhisky and
@Kgffy also lost their grip.
In C1R2, lap 6, I was giving chase to
@Kgffy . For a driver that uses a controller, he catches his car quite well when in trouble, (he did so in Combo 3 a lot this week). But on this occasion, the battle was lost and rather than hitting the concrete tunnel wall, he opted for the pits.
The story of Combo #1 was as usual,
@Worst_Driver and
@Nicktune battling for the checkered flag. They both put up crazy lap times in this one. I lapped it quite a bit with
@Oshawa-Joe during the week and it paid off with two 3rd place finishes.
Combo#2:
A group shot of our small grid in Combo#2.
@DublDee got caught looking at Mount Fugi and missed his T1 braking point.
This led to some additional difficulties and ultimately he decided to head into the pits.
Where he joined
@Kgffy .
Combo#3:
This combo was voted off at the end of the night ending a run of 3 or 4 weeks for this Honda NSX GT500.
After a rare slip off track,
@Nicktune recovered and made his way back into the action but periodically got stuck behind slower traffic.
Small grid but great grid.
I hit the wall really hard mid way into C3R2. I got back on track for another lap or two and then for no reason, the paddles on my rig stopped working. As I was trying to get it working again, I hit the pause button, which then got auto-pilot engaged to get back on the track. I didn't want to be in anybody's way so I decided to leave the track. Thankfully it seems fine now.
Wishing my fellow Canucks a Happy Thanksgiving. Because of our holiday weekend, my status is set to probable for this Sunday.
Thanks for your patience.
See you at the Car-Show.
