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I'm gonna write my race report fast while I have everything clear in my head.
Qualifying was interesting, after practicing yesterday a little with jonszter I knew he was going to be quick. However, I managed to set the fastest time after a few attempts. Really nice to see so many people too showing up 👍
At the start I got very surprised in a good way. It seemed everyone on the grid was on the correct position according to the time in qualifying 👍 Got an okay start, but noticed just a few seconds after the start that it was lagging heavily for me at least. Seems I wasn't alone though. In some parts of the track like in the turn before the tunnel it felt like 5 frames per second 👎 I have only experienced lag like that once before in an online race I drove for fun. In the start, when I noticed the lag, I first thought "Oh crap.. this will be impossible". I'm quite sensitive to lag, it makes me a little insecure. That was the case especially in sector 2 in the turn before the tunnel where I began hesitating on when to give full throttle or not because of the heavy lag. Well, I have been lucky so far when it comes to connection stuff, I guess it was my turn today in way..
Anyway... I got really nervous on the first lap because of the lag, made a mistake and jonzster and R35 passed me. I thought that I had to deal with it and began getting used to it and began turning and braking a little earlier than normal to compensate, it helped. However, then jonzster and R35 had already gotten a few seconds lead. I turned to "plan B" which meant an early pit stop to mediums. I had originally thought to do it on lap 10-11 but went in on lap 8 instead I think. After switching to mediums I was shocked to notice that I couldn't even get under 1'50, in my last practice yesterday I had managed a 1'47.3xx on mediums.
The most exciting part of the race for me was when R35 and jonszter made their pit stops... It seems you did on the same lap? It got a bit chaotic in the first turn, was surprised to see R35 ahead of jonzster, I got the inside and passed a bunch of cars and began chasing R35. However I had already used the best of my tyres... And jonzster began catching up from behind eventually and he passed. Sebastian was chasing me too... At this stage my front tyres were completely worn out, and on lap 19 I made a mistake before the tunnel and fell down to 5th. Haigis was approaching too... I tried to defend but with the front tyres on <10% it was not possible, good work from haigis 👍
All in all a great race despite the lag I think. Very eventful and great to see so many cars!
And nice win R35 👍
Qualifying was interesting, after practicing yesterday a little with jonszter I knew he was going to be quick. However, I managed to set the fastest time after a few attempts. Really nice to see so many people too showing up 👍
At the start I got very surprised in a good way. It seemed everyone on the grid was on the correct position according to the time in qualifying 👍 Got an okay start, but noticed just a few seconds after the start that it was lagging heavily for me at least. Seems I wasn't alone though. In some parts of the track like in the turn before the tunnel it felt like 5 frames per second 👎 I have only experienced lag like that once before in an online race I drove for fun. In the start, when I noticed the lag, I first thought "Oh crap.. this will be impossible". I'm quite sensitive to lag, it makes me a little insecure. That was the case especially in sector 2 in the turn before the tunnel where I began hesitating on when to give full throttle or not because of the heavy lag. Well, I have been lucky so far when it comes to connection stuff, I guess it was my turn today in way..
Anyway... I got really nervous on the first lap because of the lag, made a mistake and jonzster and R35 passed me. I thought that I had to deal with it and began getting used to it and began turning and braking a little earlier than normal to compensate, it helped. However, then jonzster and R35 had already gotten a few seconds lead. I turned to "plan B" which meant an early pit stop to mediums. I had originally thought to do it on lap 10-11 but went in on lap 8 instead I think. After switching to mediums I was shocked to notice that I couldn't even get under 1'50, in my last practice yesterday I had managed a 1'47.3xx on mediums.
The most exciting part of the race for me was when R35 and jonszter made their pit stops... It seems you did on the same lap? It got a bit chaotic in the first turn, was surprised to see R35 ahead of jonzster, I got the inside and passed a bunch of cars and began chasing R35. However I had already used the best of my tyres... And jonzster began catching up from behind eventually and he passed. Sebastian was chasing me too... At this stage my front tyres were completely worn out, and on lap 19 I made a mistake before the tunnel and fell down to 5th. Haigis was approaching too... I tried to defend but with the front tyres on <10% it was not possible, good work from haigis 👍
All in all a great race despite the lag I think. Very eventful and great to see so many cars!
And nice win R35 👍
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I tried to pass R35 in the chaos after his pit stop, in addition he was on cold tyres, if I had passed him, but couldn't make it. Then I knew that 1st place would be hard and when I saw that you gained those places back that you lost and began chasing me I knew that 2nd place was going to be hard too 
It was, like, many small lags each second that made the frame rate feel like it stuttered.. Anyway, it seems rare to experience (for me at least) let's hope no one will lag or have anymore connection issues in the future:tup:
I was looking forward to having you as teammate, but I know you wouldn't back out like this if you didn't have any other choice.. It feels extra bad since you're doing such a big work with bringing everyone together for racing like this.. But you will join the last races at least then? Will MPOWER be my new teammate?
