That was quite a horrible experience. Was very evenly matched with Yeratel, but after a couple of laps with changing lead, I go into Curva Grande as always in practice and the car reacts to my lifting like it's kicked in the back and turns violently to the inside. That was stop #1 for repairs.
It turns out though, that either the conditions in the race are completely different than in practice and offer nowhere near the amount of grip as even when it started raining in qualifying, or the physics of my car simply changed (I wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened in GT6). I can suddenly not even break into the 51's anymore and the car is trying to kill me every time I go through Curva Grande, allowing only just 230km/h instead of 240 as usual, and that's when I manage to hold it on track. It's almost like driving on ice. Since I don't think I forgot how to drive from one lap to the next, I can only suspect something fishy happened in the game.
Then Daiba loses it in Parabolica directly in front of me, his car fishtailing out of the corner and, of course, catching me trying to squeeze by. Stop #2 for repairs.
A little later Furi simply runs into me in the middle of Curva Grande like I wasn't there, and pushes me off into the barrier. Stop #3. I think I was dead last at that point, except for Randy. I was more than a lap down on Camikaze then, and he was 4th or 5th at that point.
The only thing left to do was trying to drive steady and make up some positions which is what happened. Ended up 5th, but I can only hope that will be a dropped score.