Well for me it turned out to be the race that could possibly have been. Quite hard for me to get a good clean lap in the 5 you get for qualifying, when i was finally on a cracker i would oversteer out of a corner and lose all the time I gained plus some GST.
Red red red, i was waiting for someone to go when the timer hits zero even though we wait till 10s, just some advise for future drivers, if you do jump the start unintentionally please do not reverse back into your position as it could cause a crash, remember penalties are off so your car won't go invisible when you reverse, just pull over to the left or right side, which ever is safest depending on the track, I had a good laugh at it and I appreciate the fact that you also penalised yourself for jumping the start.
Had an amazing battle with Jol, maggot, and red for the first few laps, once Oni caught up my race was dealt a massive blow, heading into turn 1 i noticed Oni was braking very late, i originally turned in but when seeing his car closing quickly i turned left to allow him the corner, sadly Oni chose to try turn around me at the same time as he thought i was turning in, meaning he hit me fair and square in the right rear tyre doing about 150km/h, i only received right rear damage but the tyre was at such an extreme angle the car was sliding everywhere forcing me to pit. I was lucky that Oni had to pit at the same time so for the 25 laps i got out of my mediums we had a fantastic race.
Put hards on for my next stint, got up to second position, now Rota and I have a history of managing to find damage when we are racing close and last night it happened again, the only time for the 75 laps my car was sideways heading into turn 1 and i made contact with the inside tyre wall, i chose to drive on with the damage which ultimately cost me a good result. My last stop was for mediums with around 23 to go, i filled the tank and with the fresh mediums i was going to push myself till the finish, by this time my feet started to randomly cramp and my focus was fading which caused quite a few spins and loose moments around the circuit. Once i realised i was a lap in front of red (4th in tier) i decided to just slow it down and punched out constant 1:34's to make the finish without losing my 7th overall position.
Overall i was quite happy with my speed for the race, a few errors of my own doing combined with one unfortunate incident really decided my fate.
Memorable moments?
1) 15-20 lap battle with Oni
2) Honking my horn to everyone in pit lane
3) The amazing 4 turn over and under moves with Rod
4) Once again getting damage being around rota (not his fault)
5) The last time i overtook Rota was when he was lagging across the road and i was quite literally $hitting bricks, but managed to avoid anything.
Quite unfortunate for Cac and Rota to have those issues, seriously Cac that's some of the worst lag i've seen for ages, doing doughies in the sand? Waahhooo.
Not looking forward to next week at Trial Mountain in this understeering sherman tank of a car but at the same time also looking forward to the challenge of mastering it.
Congrats to Jol, an impressive drive considering you were taken out by Cac's lag, Oni mate top drive to get P2 overall and first in class considering how far behind we were, velly mate i checked your one lap pace and it was impressive! Congrats on winning your class!
Bring on the Mount!
I think you are some sort of a magician or something...lol...well done mate.
