Ciao Tutti!
Well, I know you've all been dying to know how I've been getting on since I last posted, so I'll indulge you! Racing Gr.4 has been a mixed bag. I only tend to do the circuit's I know for now and, to be honest, it has been a mixed bag. I had annoyingly became THAT guy that ultimately got so frustrated at his lack of talent, he logged off whenever the inevitable happened and he was facing the. I don't like THAT guy, so I've banned myself from doing it, telling myself every lap is learning even if I'm last.
So, having banned myself from logging off, it become a mixed back of running around at the the back, and finishing where I started (which I was chuffed with). Then, once glorious day at Spa, I got a podium from a hard-fought, and thoroughly exhilarating battle to the line between 3rd-6th, I got lucky and, having just jumped up to 5th on the last lap, due to a mistake from the poor chap in front, 3/4th decided to overshoot the final chicane leaving a door wide enough for my Vantage V8 to nip through!
There has been little such success since but every day and every lap is education. That said....I just had ago at La Mans 24hr Gr.2 event. wow. what a bunch of donkeys that was. Probably just the crowd I was racing with but my word. I've never had such a rubbish time.
Having started well, qualifying 9th and jumping up to 7th from the start, the race was non-stop action from the first chicane. Hunting down 4/5/6th I could see up in front an absolute ding-doing going on with each car smacking into the side of the other. Biding my time, and waiting for the inevitable moment they all collected each other into gravel I sat back and whiled away the miles fending off the attack from behind, from a decent driver intent on making my work, hard.
Managing to slip up into 6th, taking the place from a one, we were having a good ol' fashioned slobber knocker, right up until he decided to not brake at the first hairpin and smack me off into the gravel. Fighting my way back up to that nutbag of 3 car pack again, and putting in a decent race for my talent (or lack there of), imagine my horror when at the hard left hander before the second hairpin, some utter cretin did it again and launched me into the barrier. Try to rush back to the track only, as it was the second to last lap, had me frustratedly doing donuts and, only due to time-penalties and random cars in the gravel and DNFs meant I managed to finish 1 place down on my starting position
I've read some horror stories on online racing, but honestly myself not had one till this afternoon. I don't get what drives people to simply ram people off the road. I get it could have been an honest mistake, but given I sat behind this donkey for most of the race, watching him and the other two cars around him bash into each other like some sort of destruction derby, leaves me to think it was all intentional. They should impose bans on people that dick about like that, Im in this for the racing and the fun, whether Im any good or not - I give it ago, even if I am making up numbers round the back. It's certainly not any fun when you get launched off the track. don't even get me started on the penalites! goodness me.
Not cool! can anyone suggest any other type of race where I can avoid this type of thing or is the Online daily racing the only thing?
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