Race ended badly for ORA, seems like we always have something going against us. From the start we were demoted to just 2 drivers, one of which (myself) whose first GTPES race was Tsukuba. We had a very good middle part of the race, we kept in the top 3 for majority of the time until I had to do a driver change cause of fatigue and planning but my teammate
@Pubs16 got involved in very bad connection issues, causing us to drop to 5th. Everything is ok though, I am still proud of our performance and we'll come back stronger.
Yes sadly! Am so annoyed at my connection performance for that last driver change as many would have seen. I would have to say my best luck for the whole season regarding my dreaded joining time and luck. My 2nd stint was no lost time getting back in from
@Brutaka's first stint, then the 3rd this was just terrible resorting to resetting my router and then suffering TWO DC's once I finally got in, got about 6 laps in the final minutes of the last hour. Aside from all that absolutely I'm still so happy looking back before the last hour.
I made a mostly very consistent first stint, getting in the lead even for the first time, unfortunately only due to
@mustafur's DC early in his first stint though, just running out my own laps and pushing towards the ends before each pit stop for the first 3 hours as I could see I would close into everyone leading in GT300. Apologies for running into a driver in Lightning Speed around the 2 hour mark, great racing close by but I had got caught by some slightly earlier braking. Also to
@Whitetail for our little bingle, following the incident with the RRR GTR I tried finishing my stint with light damage but lost it under the bridge into the wall. A late call to change over to
@Brutaka 20mins early as I was just near the pits, it was a slight delay for him to get onto track. You ran a great stint mate, kept us in 3rd before handing it back over allowing me to have a couple hours sleep lol. We were hanging in there! Looking close for a podium by the time it started raining at the end of my stint. Again Brutaka holding our position quite well, aside having to suffer a lap in lhm mode you hung there as long as you could dude. For only your 2nd big race dude you've done awesome considering our situations. I just dropped the ball at the end though. Would have loved to have seen how we could've played out had I been able to join back no problems for the final hour, in the few laps I was able to do I managed 2:09s and my most enjoyable wet laps in any race so it would've been a fun finish with everyone.
Huge congratulations to Lightning Speed Motorsport, yet again a flawless race for you guys, you just keep it all together so well and that's how it pays off. The Endurance Experience team, guys absolute kudos to you achieving 2nd in a completely unexpected entry, holding an also perfect race and your results show. Unfortunate for
@JonoStan96 and his RaceOnOz team but you boys still made the podium so a huge relief to still grab that considering your troubles, I'm sure, but a closer shot missed at a race win again I will not argue with that.
I'm now finally all rested up from this big night lol, had to go to my Pop's 65th pretty much after the race on 2 hours sleep. So now I'm kicking back day off from work watching the coverage to watch our the GT500 race also. Huge thanks to the commentary team, it gets better every race, and it's just so awesome to watch, I can't get enough of this series lol. And lastly as always thank you
@AJ,
@Peelster1 and
@littleregret265 for providing us the foundations to be able to do all and enjoy all this, we're pretty damn lucky here on GTPlanet.
will be fun.
