Some great races I was in tonight!
Race1: DNS - KZ2 clan match
Race2: 6th
Race3: 1st
Race4: DNS - Start time confusion
Race5: 3rd
Race2: Running S1 tires was definantly not the way to go...being 10kph slower at the apex of every corner just saw me fall backwards. Was a lot of fun though. Had a good race with the french guy for the first 2 laps. Fell into the clutches of ripping silk and joeninety on lap3. Had a good battle keeping joe behind me, until lap5 where I thought I ran him wide. I kept going with ripping silk to battle it out through the last sector but pulled up at the line and reversed down the main straight to give joe his place back.
Race3: This went a lot better than I had hoped for. Cracked my first 1:53.xx in this race outside of a draft. Spent a lot of my time about 2 seconds down on Stonemonkey until about lap 5, I appeared to be faster in the essess while he was faster over the last half of the circuit. I made a mistake on lap 5, and it stretched out to 3.3 seconds.
He then made a mistake a lap later, bringing it down to about 1.7 seconds. Lap 8 we both went off at Degner and he ended up about 2.4 seconds ahead where I thought it was all over. Pushing harder still I had the gap down to about 2 seconds on the last lap, it was tenths here and there, watching every split time as I rolled through it.
Lap 9 I think Stone made some mistake through the chicane as I came out of it closer, and some guy in a skyline who was many laps down decided to pick up Stone's draft, which in turn gave me a draft. I was .5 of a second down over the line on lap 10 and on Stone's tailpipe going into turn2.
I was much more stable through the essess and Stone appeared to be struggling, almost losing it heading up through Dunlop, where i tapped him, he regained control and we set off again. Coming out of the chicane I had a better drive and with his draft, pulled along side into Spoon, outbraked him on the inside but too deep he took a tighter line, I lined him up down the back straight and passed him into and through 130r. Kept it tidy through the chicane, took it slow and steady to roll home 1st.
Race5: Started well, from 6th into 3rd by the 2nd corner. Following Stone and Vrrm. 1st lap chicane was a bit messy, I ended up being caught out by Vrrm's braking and tapping him, he ran deep into the chicane as I waited for him on the outside, he appeared to wait for me on the inside, so I thought quickly as stone was getting away and took the place.
Lap 2 into the chicane, i was too deep, ran across the inside grass and slid into the middle of the track, vrrm hit me, so i pulled over and slipped between him and Devie. through the essess I was a bit messy and probably caught Devie off guard a bit. Devie ended up tapping me into the dirt at the bottom of Dunlop curve, he didn't stop so I assumed it was a lag tap and carried on, nearly collecting Joeninety when I rejoined the track.
I started to put the hammer down and two laps later I was past Joeninety as he took a wider line through Dunlop and let me past. Chasing Devie and Vrrm who were having a great battle up ahead, I put in my fastest lap I've ever done in the Vette, a 1:53.913. Lap 6 I had caught them coming out of Spoon, drafted them down the back straight, as Devie went past Vrrm into 130r, I took it easy, but they both opened the door for me and I went past both of them with a late braking dive into the chicane. Was too keen to get away from them as I slid coming out of the chicane, and we went 3 wide down the straight. Vrrm with the biggest balls took 2nd place with me and Devie going side by side into turn 1, I guess I turned in too tightly and was tapped by Devie and pushed into the dirt.
Getting out of the dirt, I figured I could catch them both with a few laps left, provided they kept battling it out. Devie though, decided it would be best for him just to get past Vrrm and leave it at that...which he did.
From what I could see, Vrrm tried to hold on but ended up making a mistake too many putting me in striking distance. Lap 8 and I had caught up coming out of Degner 2. Was thinking about a pass into spoon, but thought best of it. Then drafting him down the back straight, I was alongside but as I came to the bridge I thought I would guarantee my 3rd place by letting him roll through 130r. I positioned myself through the chicane, pulled alongside down the front straight and nailed him into the braking zone of turn1, my favourite place on the track to pass. I put a bit of distance between myself and him through the essess and rolled on to take 3rd overall.
As per usual, I had a lot of fun, its always great racing with you guys!
Can I suggest we change the start times? It seems that we have a lot of failure to connect now that we are at an obscure time to avoid randoms. Every race that connected tonight had a random overseas host. So I was just thinking if we run at the usual xx.00, xx.30 etc we will get more consistent connections by using randoms as our hosts. Personally I would rather better connections and bigger fields of MNR's with Randoms than the sometimes split races with one or two other MNR's and failing to connect 3 or 4 times. Thoughts?
internet service, so I am unable to play online or update for that matter ( still with spec 2 from the disc that I bought bundled with a PS3 ).
