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Great racing today guys!
I just want to point something out to a few of you. Patience is a virtue when it comes to online racing. I live by it and really enjoy racing with people that live by that rule too. As you can see by the finish of the race, I almost stole that win from the two people that were battling the most for it, simply because I chose to sit back and stay out of the fight until I needed to be there. I wasn't in 3rd for most of the race because I couldn't keep up, I chose to stay there. If it wasn't for a bump in the last corner, I would have won that race even though my plan was quite different.
So can we all agree to have a little more patience? Passing each other back and forth multiple times during the race might be fun, but it doesn't help with tire wear and certainly could end up getting someone in trouble, like taking them out of the race. 👍
Agreed that you should have some patience, but not as much as you are talking about. If we sit back and go round following each other, making a pass every 5 laps to be quite honest I would rather just have a 2 lap sprint race. I know that, if I would have sat back it would have been me and you following NEPALII (who was going for it like me) and the race would have only been decided on the final few laps. Well I don't want to wait until the last few laps, I want to push to try and pull away (which is quite hard under the GT5 slipstream) but most importantly try and make one of you to make a mistake.
For example, NEPALII was driving a quite defensive line into the fast 95 mph right hander. I moved my car out of his slipstream to his left, and he got spooked by it, braked too late and hit the barrier quite hard. If I had left a larger gap, I could have pulled away so much he would have been out of my slipstream. It's alright if one of us sits back but if say, all 3 of us did that during that race well frankly I would get bored.
I had tapped you and NEPALII quite a few times into the second corner when I was on the inside, and that was unintentional. I always tried to brake to make the middle of the corner and if you was on the outside well sorry you might get a tap.
Thanks to everyone who turned up today. I'm just watching the replay now. If you want to report an incident, please PM me.
GT5 Servers are down on Tuesday, so do people want practice on Wednesday or Thursday (Thursday is a maybe for me)?
EDIT: One last thing. At Monza: Rain fixed or not fixed?
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