Race Report - Pre-Season at Nürburgring GP/F, seen from a BMW V12 LMR cockpit.
MY LAP COUNT MIGHT BE EQUIVOCATED. MY DUMBNESS MADE ME FORGET TO SAVE THE REPLAY.
First lap, I tried to help in the pace lap formation and it seemed to work. I placed myself at last LMP grid spot since I had started in the back of the grid. The 2nd lap start was a bit messy for LMP racers, there seemed to have a doubt about where to accelerate. This might require some discussion later. But it went well after all, there were no incidents, Ronin kept the lead.
LAP 3: spartyfan95 clipped the sand at the second turn after Schumacher's S [right turn] and hit me in the process. It was PURELY AN ACCIDENT, absolutely no blame upon him or me. This gave lovealotbear the second place he did not want to lose anymore!
In the upcoming laps, I gave real fight to lovealotbear, these were very pleasant laps.
LAP 9, the one I must apologize about: We reached GTC traffic for the first time. I do not remember if I was in front or behind lovealot. I know that I went through Schumacher's S behind 3 GTC cars, stood behind them in the left turn, used an outer line to overtake 2 of them at the right turn [I HOPE THIS MANOUEVER WAS NOT RECKLESS, IT SEEMED ALRIGHT]. Then, there was gogatrs. Coming out of this corner, my car balanced a bit, and trying to control it I ended up ramming gogatrs, but not hard. After this, I accelerated, took the right side in that fast turn before the chicane, and thought "Hey, I will go as close to the right as I can so I make sure I won't hit gogatrs." Do you think that worked? IT DID NOT, I say. I went to the right too much, clipped grass, lost control and crossed the track, taking gogatrs to the sand with me. I am very sorry, that was a reckless manouever. - THANKS FOR OTHER GTC RACERS FOR SLOWING DOWN SO GOGATRS WOULD GATHER AGAIN, that made me feel less bad eheheheh
Me and lovealotbear had more and more close laps, with some overtakes [I tried to be as fair as I could be] and I got a pretty good overtake before the chicane just when we were going to pits, what gave me some lead. This lead I soon managed to lose again, what is unfortunate.
LAP 17: Someone from GT clipped the sand in Schumacher's S. When trying to regain car's control, I came at full speed and wasn't able to avoid the accident. Again, purely an accident. It was a orange 458, I was so fast I missed the name lol
After that, another time checking lovealot taillights [THEY WORK VERY WELL, SIR!]. At lap 22 I was having some REAL CLOSE braking... I could breath your exhaust gas ahahah. Once it seemed to me that I hit your back, because sometimes online it happens that you hit someone but does NOT feel it. If that happened, sorry.
At lap 24 and 25 I revealed my super powers, made mistakes and finished happy with my third place!
IN SHORT TERMS: First time with such traffic experience, I will surely improve this. Summing it all out, it was an awesome race. Thank you, racers.
Regards,