Thank you for your pov video Richard, and thank you John for the pictures! 👍
Sadly I forgot to broadcast to Youtube AND also forgot to save the race replays ...
A brief account of my experience. Races 1 and 3 have no history because I got pole and with a clean start off the line all I had to do is manage the lead. Also helped that they were short races. So, the most memorable races for me were the second, longer races, with a random grid.
In the "Seven" race I started from last row and tried to carefully gain positions. I remember hitting a difficult spot, at about half the race, when I met two players battling it out on track (
beachboy66 in 4th and and
half_sourly in front of him, 3rd), very close to each other. All I could do was to add some extra pressure to
beachboy66 and wait for an oportunity. And it presented itself close to the end of the 7th minut of the race when they both touched and - I think - got off track, but I got to sneak past and got from 5th to 3rd (you can see those positions instantly changing at 33:55 of Richard's video). With 7 minutes to race I did my best to catch up with Richard out in front but it was a tall order and my gains were marginal so when I got to him (penultimate lap) I knew I would not be able to pass unless Rich made a mistake. And apparently this was my lucky race because that's exactly what happened, Richard clipped the very tall kerb entering the start/finish straight, his car got unbalanced and while regaining composure he lost speed so I was able to pass (you can see it at 38:28 in Richard's video). After that it was the last lap,
xeronima was way out in front (and being very fast) so all I had to do was keep my focus to not lose that position again and just take the car safely to the flag. Amazing race, one of the best I have made in many years of playing, this 2nd place was the highlight of my participation yesterday.
The 300 SP race I have to say was a less than stellar race for me, but anyway it was also fun to do a back to front effort (not as from the back as before though, I started somewhere in the middle of the grid). Because these cars are faster and harder to drive it was much more difficult to gain positions while at the same time keeping out of trouble. I had noticed both
xeronima and
gu1tar3rich started further back than me (with xero handicapped by a severe penalty), but that this time the front of the race was being led at a very fast pace by
Simba2009Lora, closely followed by
IfandOr. So, I did my best to get back into striking distance and, after following
IfandOr for a while I did manage to claim 2nd position from him, still 3 seconds adrift from the race leader
Simba2009Lora (at about 1:20:00 in Richard's video, meaning with 5 minutes left of racing). So, I had to try ...
... and so I did, but as with Richard in the Seven race, my only hope against
Simba2009Lora was that he would make a mistake under pressure. And well ... he didn't, it was my turn to let my eagerness take over. I think apart from us only Paul (following us) knows this, but, coming to the last corner of the last lap, I tried to get side by side (stupid move I know) and in the end shunted him into the grass. So I had to wait for him to regain the track and in the end not only I didn't win, but also lost 2nd place for Paul. Oh well ...
Nevertheless, and despite this
ending, it was again a race that I had great fun doing. Time flies when you're having fun and that surely happened yesterday.
. Cars like this or Radical is a mystery for me. I set AI 100/100 and I am 2 seconds per lap faster with 620 and 2 seconds slower with 300. Maybe I need much more practice with 300 
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but corner 1 is definitely to be made flat out 
