That went pretty well. I qualified P9 and finished P2.
I decided to hop into the first GT1 slot at 2PM, and i was in the same lobby as
@bliprunner, and it was nice to race against blip for the first time (iirc).
Qualifying never went well because i cut across raidillon a bit too much which gave me a 0.5 second penalty, which ruined my lap, plus i accidentally short shifted after the penalty zone as well. So i ended up qualifying down in P9.
The race went much better tho. During the first couple of laps, i gained a couple of positions and i was now in P4. Then later in the race P3 binned it while battling with P2, and then a couple of laps later P2 ended up binning it as well. During the last 3 laps, Bliprunner was slightly closing the gap each lap once he broke free from traffic, and that made the last couple of laps a little bit nervy because i didn't want to make a small mistake and allow Blip to close in even more.
I knew i maybe could've pushed a little bit harder and looking back at the replay confirmed that, because the people around me were braking slightly later for some of the corners and carrying a little bit more speed through Eau Rouge and Raidillon, but during the race i didn't want to risk anything since i was in P2.