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Ok, forget what I said earlier, THIS was the best, hardest and most stressful race I’ve done in a long time.
Always a bad sign when I get a low number board - #3 this round - I do better as an underdog. Sure enough I could only manage P12. Clean laps, just not fast.
Started on hards and had one of those lap 1s where everything opens up. I was P4 by the banked downhill right-hander! Someone ahead gets a penalty and I’m P3 down the straight. Of course no way I could hope to hold it against faster drivers on mediums. Just tried to survive until my planned stop on lap 10. Very slow laps but everyone from P4 down was battling (quite dirtily) so I was able to keep up.
Pitted from P7 or P8 on lap 10 to get my mediums. Big shock as I saw I only had 15.4 laps of fuel left! Corvette is a thirsty beast. Decided not to top-up and short-shift for a few laps instead.
Came out in clean air and banged in the quick laps. The undercut worked beautifully, after all the stops I was a clear P4 with a 7 sec gap behind.
Managed to keep it clean and tidy to the end even though the P5 GTR was catching me at nearly a second a lap.
Pretty low points so I won’t be overtaking @OJBrit today. Still can’t figure out this whole scoring and seeding system, my DR hasn’t dropped since the first couple of rounds but the points available are much less.
Please PD, let us plebs have some more of these long races like the glory boys in GT1.
Always a bad sign when I get a low number board - #3 this round - I do better as an underdog. Sure enough I could only manage P12. Clean laps, just not fast.
Started on hards and had one of those lap 1s where everything opens up. I was P4 by the banked downhill right-hander! Someone ahead gets a penalty and I’m P3 down the straight. Of course no way I could hope to hold it against faster drivers on mediums. Just tried to survive until my planned stop on lap 10. Very slow laps but everyone from P4 down was battling (quite dirtily) so I was able to keep up.
Pitted from P7 or P8 on lap 10 to get my mediums. Big shock as I saw I only had 15.4 laps of fuel left! Corvette is a thirsty beast. Decided not to top-up and short-shift for a few laps instead.
Came out in clean air and banged in the quick laps. The undercut worked beautifully, after all the stops I was a clear P4 with a 7 sec gap behind.
Managed to keep it clean and tidy to the end even though the P5 GTR was catching me at nearly a second a lap.
Pretty low points so I won’t be overtaking @OJBrit today. Still can’t figure out this whole scoring and seeding system, my DR hasn’t dropped since the first couple of rounds but the points available are much less.
Please PD, let us plebs have some more of these long races like the glory boys in GT1.
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