Thanks again for letting me join yesterdays series starter races just for once. 👍
Even though I'm not a huge fan of Mount Panorama I've enjoyed the races quite much. The (Barra)Cuda is a car I've never driven before and probably wouldn't have done neither in the future. But I have to say it's quite a good drive and tuning allowed exterminated the 3-gear limiter issue on fast tracks which most muscle cars have.
I used the suspension settings of
@Sick Cylinder's tune but changed brake settings to 3/2 and the LSD to 8/6/12. Maybe I was lacking some speed due to this conservative LSD setting but the car was very stable most of the time. After trying the usual gearbox adaption setting (final gear to 5500, max speed to 180 km/h, gear ratios at 0/25/50/75/100 %, final gear to 3200) I decided to go back to the standard gearbox as that felt quite good too.
The skill level in this club is pretty high at the front and I was quite surprised that
@tarnheld could keep up with those alien guys fighting for the win. Seems you've improved quite a lot meanwhile and made the next step.
But all other racers from the midfield to the end of the pack showed great consitency as well.
After dropping back to the end of the field due to braking too late and running-off at "The Dipper" I managed to do consistent lap times of 2:24-2:26 for most of the race. My luck was
@richroo,
@Sutsagrd and
@pretend racer were involved in some incidents which allowed me to pass them easily.
For many laps I had
@IfAndOr chasing
@Sick Cylinder within sight. I tried my best and could slightly catch up but when doing small faults the gap increased to the original level again. These two guys showed such a permanent performance that my hopes of a fault of them was desperate. 👍 On the other hand I had
@richroo in his Mini behind me for most of the race appearing sometimes more, sometimes less big in my rear view mirror. Especially at "The Esses" he gained a lot of time as this was my worst section.
At the penultimate lap suddenly
@tarnheld appeared right in front of me at "Quarry" - he must have had crashed hard I guess. I was overtaking him on the way to "The Cutting" but spun right at that corner which caused him to crash into me.
While we were kind of stuck there
@richroo was the laughing third and gained 2 positions.
@tarnheld was staying behind me gentlemanly but since I was holding him up with my spun I decided to slow down and let him pass. I guess that way I reduced my negative influence on the championship points.
Anyways, I wish you guys a lot of fun during the championship and hope to see you on track again whenever that will be.
Cheers!