Thank you HP for organizing this epic race.
My first 4 hour stint, and I was having slight fatigue towards the end with a numb-butt as well. Whole race was quite calm and I was driving at 90% and picking off those who were overcame by damage one by one. Only got overtaken by HP and towards race end, McFizzle.
My ZR1 Corvette is far off the pace of the faster GTRs. Lap times averaging in the mid 8:20s. Started at 5th, moved up to pole after Kurt got DC'ed and HP reacted violently to the news by crashing himself.
Stayed in the lead from lap 8 until 22, when my Vette decided she doesn't want to win this all-GTR race (the other Vette of KREASER was DC'ed earlier), so she went frolicking in the grass at Eschbach and heavy damage followed. I lost concentration and as a result, Fizz which was 15 secs behind took over the lead and owns the race.
Lesson : A single damage can lose one the race

. Stay focused.
Race Snapshots below
60 pictures LONG POST !
26 laps. Nurb 24h. Daytime. No weather.
404HP, 1100Kg.
Fastest lap : Kurt (8:14)
Finish time : GTP_mcfizzle (3h 46m)
Note :
After viewing a few hours of replay footage, I got nauseaus and almost threw up. Due to the other cars are not animating smoothly (camera view jumping left-right) because of the network lag. As such I will have to cut short the snapshots for my well-being. Apologies.
Kreaser jumped the race start and bumps Knukken. Wheel damage to both.
Mr_Paincake slipped on the accel and bumped Rosen while lining up. Damage to both cars. At this point 4 cars shows damage, I assume this can be brought up to the stewarts and the race restarted ?
Lining up to order.
A runthrough of the armchair drivers crazy enough to spend a weekend sitting 4 hours in front a a TV set... harhar
Pole position Kurt (wurks race organizer)
2. Knukken from Norway (CRAP member). It's snowing there btw.
3. GTP_mcfizzle
4. Kreaser. Bravely brings a Corvette to a GTR fight. (CRAP member)
5. BobZ in the other Corvette ZR1. (CRAP member)
6. DavidB (CRAP member)
7. Cobani. Slightly off his usual pace. Conservative tune maybe.
8. Rosenludaren from Sweden.
9. CRAP Bossman HeathenPride (HP). Messed up his qualifying by crashing, probably to make the race more interesting as he got bored leading every race. Har.
10. MrPainCake. As he shall demonstrate soon...
11. Completing the field is ANFD, real life long range tourer. 4 hours is nothing! 👍
Race start. Kurt leads the front pack through the GP Circuit.
After a gap comes the 2nd pack. HP got stuck behind a damaged Rosen. ANFD waiting to pounce from behind...
Pain gets knocked into the sand from a 3-way fight through Dunlop-Kehre. Oh the Pain... heavy damage since the starting grid. It's gonna be long lap.
ANFD's slow-and-steady strategy scores his first victim, Pain.
Aremberg. Kurt holds a comfortable pace in front. Closely trailed by Knuk and Fizz.
Kreaser holding 4th from Bob and David.
HP up to 8th.
Not forgetting Cobani chasing David's 6th spot.
Rosen at 9th spot. Struggling with damage. Pain having a ball as well.
David spun into the Karussell. Cobani wandered a bit too close and Heavy Damage to both.
HP makes easy work of david's damage.
Rosen getting the hang of seeing how well the GTR drives on grass with damaged shock absorbers. ANFD picks off another car.
MrPainCake enjoying some. Getting devoured by a damaged R35 Godzilla.
How far Kurt is ahead before Lap 1 is done. Half the field suffer from car damage.
David first of the early pitters to emerge to do Lap 2. Hopefully less incident as the field thins out.
Cobani decided to skip Lap 1 pitting to repair engine damage. Now having to man-handle the car, not going too well.
HP moves up another notch! Takes Cobani.
ANFD eventually moves up to midfield and swapping a few positions. Was looking fine until lap 20 when PSN booted him, what a waste of consistent driving.
Kreaser driving like a man possessed chasing Knukken! His car keep doing these slides throughout the race. I suspect my console is not getting his data correctly. [Lag]
Knukken drops to 4th by lap 3. Kreaser just done his fastest lap of 8:18 with FULL DAMAGE.
[I seriously think this game's network code has some issues updating car data. If you can confirm please Kreaser, I see your car running full damage for Lap 2 after bumping into a lot of things, yet it done a flying lap. Either the game has issues or your driving is EPIC!]
Knukken slips and suffered more setback. Kreaser holding 3rd behind Fizz and Kurt.
BobZ passes Knuk for 4th spot.
HP is next up to 5th. Knukken is mustering up a lot of patience right now.
Kreaser ended up with some knocks and the Vette shows it's true twitchiness. Bob moves up to 3rd.
Kreaser struggling with the heavy damage Corvette, holding up Cobani and Knukken close behind. The Vette jumping around the track. [Lag]
David Cobani spun at Karussell. A very close Knukken had no time to avoid. Heavy Damage !
[Thanks David for catching this, must be the orange paint
]
ANFD easily picks off a limping Cobani.
HP slipstreams Bob and moves up to 3rd behind Fizz and Kurt.
Lap 4. First of the scheduled pit stops.
Kurt leading with no worries in the world. 30 sec gap by lap 3.
Knuk, David and Kreaser met up again for a bash...
Kreaser losing the Vette, again.
Fizz had 2 full donuts before the final straight.
As HP took advantage and moves up to 2nd behind Kurt.
Pain had enough of himself and parked aside for the remaining 22 laps.
Bob sneak past a damaged Fizz up into 3rd.
Kreaser car limp directionlessly into walls as his console was disconnected by the game on Lap 7.
Kurt's car suffered the same fate on Lap 8. GT5 Disconnect Service. Losing the lead to HP.
HP's reaction to losing Kurt was to suddenly veer into a wall. Damage.
Bob took over the lead from HP. Lap 8 to 22. With Fizz close behind.
..and he fell asleep with 5 laps to go. Went wall riding and damaged the car.
McFizzle slides past Bob for an easy win.
Despite the skirmishes and knocks, Fizz rides home with the checkered flag. Congratulations!
Thanks for reading. See you next time.