Oil change gives your car 5% more torque at all RPM, and thus 5% more max power on the setting screen.
Oil change lasts 200km (8 laps at Nord, about 1:10)
Between 200-300km, Oil change deteriorates linearly, removing the 5% boost.
At 300km, all effects of Oil change have ended (12 laps at Nord, about 1:45)
So everyone had 4-5 laps with no oil at the end, causing some interesting speed differences.
And as stated above, when you exit the race early you effectively reset all the racing you've done, as for whatever reason GT6 doesn't count it. Same happens when you DC.
Science aside, huge thanks to the WRS team for running this, and being ever so kind as to nudge the start time by an hour so guys in the southern hemisphere could come play as well. When I first saw the series back at the start of the year I was gutted I couldn't come do it because it looked amazing, so it was fantastic to actually be able to get in on the action for Brackets 2 and 3 when it restarted.
I can only be apologetic for being salty so often, but I'm only happy when I've run a clean race without stupid mistakes and through the series I made a whole lot of stupid mistakes. To me the result isn't as important as how it came about, and how I feel I drove to achieve that. I haven't been so annoyed with my efforts since the early GTPES, so that's a solid tick of approval for how challenging and competitive the series has been.
Huge congrats to PASM, 5zigen, McSqueegy, Windfire and Alfa-avanti for your Room A Race and Bracket wins (I have no idea what happened at Spa after my internet exploded so sorry if anyone got a win there and I missed it)
Again huge thanks to the WRS team, Kevin for his tireless work, PASM, Patrick and Gravitron for hosting and no doubt working away behind the scenes, looking forward to the next special event as racing is where the fun is at.