First of all I wanna say that it was a great race with some hot battles and I had great fun until the very end, the top3 was in battle until the last laps and it shows the competition we have this season, but not only the podium, except few cases we could see awesome battling in the mid pack throughout the whole race and the final positions were totally unpredictable. From exception to the Audi drivers that "destroyed" everyone all cars seemed well balanced, maybe very little advantages here and there but overall they seemed pretty good in my eyes. Maybe the major problem were the NSX's that despite the update for this track they seemed to be overpowered in the long straights, we'll have to see how it goes in the 2nd pre-season race and adjust if needed before the official season starts, maybe it was just a Daytona problem for the NSX's.
I've seen some parts of the replay and the Audi car is not "sooooo" unbalanced as some guys were saying, yeah maybe a bit and perhaps we could remove some bhp before the 2nd pre-season race, truth is the car is fast and in the right hands it's able to do damage but in terms of top speed it is close to Z4 and SLS. The GT-R is few Km/h down but has other advantages. I'll still take a better look at other cars but I think the major problem in this race was the NSX's as I mentioned earlier.
After the race there was a huge debate about the Audi specs considering the times they were pulling from everybody else, the gap was huge and checking the times everyone else was pretty close except TNR_Pfeffer702 and TNR_5zigen.
Before I said anything about the car and the specs I had to check their laps and this is my conclusion: Both TNR guys are good and it seems that they know the Audi car like the palm of their hands, they also know how to tame the beast (the R8) which is not easy but they take everything out of it and together with a good setup that's key.
Together with this there was a few things that I noticed that both of them did in the race and I don't consider it right as everybody else was doing the right way, I took some photos when I watched the replay just in case.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/attachments/20150112_024457-jpg.288945/
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/attachments/20150112_030129-jpg.288947/
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/attachments/20150112_030828-jpg.288948/
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/attachments/20150112_031043-jpg.288949/
These were taken in different laps and I remember seeing that in sector 4 they were gapping almost a second in comparison to all the others when doing this. I'm not saying that they did this the entire race but I saw too many times. I'll take a better look when I have the time for it and if needed. Despite this I wanna congratulate them for the awesome race and they were the fastest ones on track for sure even on other sectors.
Anyway sorry for my long post and to finish this up, I also wanna say that I was bit dissapointed with the live broadcast, I was really looking forward to it but they missed too much from the race. Just an example, 5~10minutes to end the race and 2nd to 5th place were pretty close and they had absolutely no idea about it.