Decent race. Rediscovered my faith in the game after daily race shenanigans last night.
3rd round after 130 and 157 points so far. 12pm, the lunchbreak lobby (weird that there were no early morning races today before 11?)
Qualified 5th in the Vantage V12. Came out of the pits in a good position, but ended up just ahead of the only guy on the grid significantly quicker than me. Cost me a little time being wary of him, but happy nevertheless. Probably could have got Q3 with a decent lap.
Race was fun for the first stint. Started on RM. First lap I got the slightest of touches on one of the cars in front at the hairpin. Got a 2 second penalty for "forcing another driver off track". It was so slight and such slow speed that his car barely moved! I did try and move out of the way when I realised my car wasn't slowing down enough (full fuel load, my mistake entirely. Vid below, not sure how to embed)
Was 3rd after the first corner on lap two as three ahead crashed into each other (the McLaren livery car I hit did the same thing to two of them, but looked like he tried to dive down in between them to avoid them both tbf).
After my penalty, I was in 5th, having a good race with the driver in 6th. He tried a move at the hairpin, I undercut him to get it back, but two laps later he got me.
I pitted end of lap 9 for RS tyres. Settled into a groove knocking out quick laps. Once things settled down after L12/13 or So, I was 5th, and about 5 seconds ahead of the guy I'd been battling and further ahead of those who were previously a second behind when I pitted. Car in front was about 2 seconds ahead but had fresh softs on and pulled away relatively easily, so I was just racing on my own from lap 10 onwards. 5th place secured!
Lovely lovely greeeeeeen Aston Martin. Beautiful car to drive.
Probably might have nabbed 4th without the penalty, as I would have been ahead on track from the McLaren liveried 911, but tbh he prob would have got me on fresher tyres. So nothing to moan about really. Think the tactics were about right, doing 9RM 11RS. Don't think anything else would have made a blind bit of difference.
127 points, job done. Onto a 15 lap Suzuka sprint on Saturday.