Slot 1: Got blue screen before the lobby finished loading...
Slot 2: Qualified 5th, finished 2nd after taking advantage of 3 cars in front dying at various points in the race. With 245 points from the Suzuka round, even winning this race wouldn't have changed anything, as the win was only worth 239 points.
Slot 3: Qualified 5th again, and just like the previous slot opted to start on Mediums, hoping to not waste the Softs fighting with those in front of me. Unfortunately I got mobbed on the opening few laps as I was just trying to keep my car pointed in the right direction while I waited for the Mediums to come up to temperature. I also went off track at T1 on Lap 2 but managed to avoid the tire walls and keep it pointing straight, and ultimately fell down to P9 before eventually making my way up to my final finishing position of P4.
Slot 4: Qualified P2 before falling back to 4th after the 2 directly behind me got past because they started on Softs. While the leader built up over a 10s lead, 2nd and 3rd could never really seem to build a gap to me, and were never more than 4s ahead. Eventually the leader spun in the 2nd half of the race, as did one of the other players in front of me, and I jumped back up to P2. In spite of now having the tire advantage, it took me 3 laps to set up a pass on the new leader because of the dirty air, but I got him to outbrake himself at the chicane to give me the lead and the eventual win. It was only worth 233, so once again it changed nothing in the standings.
Slot 5: I qualified P2 again, and this time elected to start on the Softs. The polesitter binned it again very early in the race, and I was able to grow my lead out to over 5s before pitting. While I was faster than P2 on the Softs, they slowly closed the gap down lap by lap on the Mediums (aided by a couple mistakes from me at T3). I was able to grab another win by a rather narrow margin for this race, coming home less than 2s ahead of P2 and less than 5s ahead of P3. This time the win was actually worth something meaningful, netting me 255 points, improving on my previous result by 10 points, but I figured I could do better...
Slot 6: Had my worst qualifying of the evening and started P6. Since I was mid field, I decided to start on the Mediums again, then promptly followed the car directly in front of me (also on Mediums) off the track at T8 and into a spin, my first time doing that all day. Surprisingly I lost only 2-3 spots, but I spent the rest of the first stint mired in 7th-8th place. During the pit stops, someone came out of the pits and jumped onto the racing line directly in front of me, causing me to run into them and giving me a 2s penalty along with wing damage, causing me to lose another spot and get stuck behind a slower car that hadn't pitted yet. In spite of this I eventually made my way past both of them and one other to make my way up to P4 for 246 points, with
@D_Dragline being the next car up the road, but more than 10s ahead. Being only 1 point better than my previous score, it was an easy decision to go yet again.
Slot 7: Right after my worst qualifying performance, I had my best one (in terms of lap time) and lined up P3, less than a tenth off pole. Starting on Softs, I inherited P2 almost immediately when they ran wide at T1 after the start, then took the lead when the leader did the same thing on Lap 2! I kept the lead for the rest of the race to bag my 3rd win of the day by 20s and take 279 points. Now I was sure I couldn't do any better in the points so I called it a day.
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