GlockPants
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Two attempts today.
First slot USA:
GT2
B/S Lobby - Door #2
I botched qualifying. Picked up a barrier penalty on my first flying lap, which ruined the second. Started P12. Flipped my tire strat, 5H/9S. Got me up to P5 to finish.
I knew I could do better.
Second slot:
B/S Lobby - Door #9
Much better qualifying this time, I even set a PB during the practice session with a 1:54.588 which is currently P350 on the leader board. Unfortunately I didn't have quite the same pace, but I still managed to start P3.
Race started ok, I picked up a couple early penalties the first few laps so I wasn't gaining on the leaders as much as I'd like. But P1 was getting sloppy defending, which eventually caused an incident with P2 causing them to make a mistake and I easily passed. It was my turn to frustrate P1. By Lap 8 I was in attack range and made a move in the esses between the two hairpin turns. That didn't go well, I'll submit video for others to review after this post. But after the incident, P3 and P4 get by both of us. I pit early to build a gap between myself and the person that I got involved with. I didn't want him to try to retaliate again.
Tire strat went 8S/6H, no fuel savings and kept things clean from then on. Finished P3 for better points than the previous race.
I probably would have won were it not for my issue on Lap 8.
Submitted for Steward Review. My "incident"
I will admit some fault here, my pass didn't have the oomph needed to get by on the first attempt and then I understeered the GT-R off into the dirt. When they rejoined the track they bumped me off into the dirt, which I didn't have any issue with. I was going to concede the place to him as at this point, he was ahead and we could have carried on. But then the GT-R intentionally goes out of their way to ram me which ruined both our positions.
First video was me, in the Porsche.
Second video is from the GT-R.
After their retaliation, I just carried on with the race. I wasn't going to do the fair thing and risk them doing more dumb things.
First slot USA:
GT2
B/S Lobby - Door #2
I botched qualifying. Picked up a barrier penalty on my first flying lap, which ruined the second. Started P12. Flipped my tire strat, 5H/9S. Got me up to P5 to finish.
I knew I could do better.
Second slot:
B/S Lobby - Door #9
Much better qualifying this time, I even set a PB during the practice session with a 1:54.588 which is currently P350 on the leader board. Unfortunately I didn't have quite the same pace, but I still managed to start P3.
Race started ok, I picked up a couple early penalties the first few laps so I wasn't gaining on the leaders as much as I'd like. But P1 was getting sloppy defending, which eventually caused an incident with P2 causing them to make a mistake and I easily passed. It was my turn to frustrate P1. By Lap 8 I was in attack range and made a move in the esses between the two hairpin turns. That didn't go well, I'll submit video for others to review after this post. But after the incident, P3 and P4 get by both of us. I pit early to build a gap between myself and the person that I got involved with. I didn't want him to try to retaliate again.
Tire strat went 8S/6H, no fuel savings and kept things clean from then on. Finished P3 for better points than the previous race.
I probably would have won were it not for my issue on Lap 8.
Submitted for Steward Review. My "incident"
I will admit some fault here, my pass didn't have the oomph needed to get by on the first attempt and then I understeered the GT-R off into the dirt. When they rejoined the track they bumped me off into the dirt, which I didn't have any issue with. I was going to concede the place to him as at this point, he was ahead and we could have carried on. But then the GT-R intentionally goes out of their way to ram me which ruined both our positions.
First video was me, in the Porsche.
Second video is from the GT-R.
After their retaliation, I just carried on with the race. I wasn't going to do the fair thing and risk them doing more dumb things.