So we went to Le Mans for Round 5 of the Waterworld Sportscar Championship. A power-boost for the previously already quickest car on the straights meant that always fast guest-starter Gokartman was able to secure pole ahead of me & Yeratel, only 3/1000 separating us in 2nd and 3rd in qualifying. Thought I'd take it easy on the start and I did, until Panoz spun in front me and I juuust managed to scrape by with a small bump which luckily didn't cause me any damage. Unfortunately I had to back off, so I got overtaken by a couple of people and had to fight with a couple of Shelbys and Corvettes (which I couldn't even overtake out of the slipstream) for a while. It was a nice fight, but once I broke free after gokartman spun in sector 1, Yeratel and Lout had already put quite some space between us.
I then inched closer to them lap by lap, until I finally had them in my sights ... which is when it started to rain for the first time. On the way into the pits both Lout and me went off at Indianapolis as the car just wouldn't stop anymore on the wet surface. I was in contention then for a while, but my chances of winning went down the drain when during one of the downpours I came in to change to wets at about 60%, and apparently, just as the selection-screen came up I tapped the accelerator which the game interpreted as an "ok" ... and gave me another set of Sports Soft. So then I not only had to make another pitstop the next lap, I also had to go around in 100% wet conditions with those tyres. Must have lost about a minute there. The rest of the race was basically hoping to see Lout appear somewhere, but I never saw him again. Just before the end when the rain stopped, I wanted to change to SS-tyres again as early as possible, and the same thing happened again. Apparently the "take-over point" where the selection screen comes up, is right at the very point where you would accelerate out of the chicane at the pit-entrance again. So I accidentally tapped "ok" with the pedal again and went around the last laps on wets, because catching Lout was hopeless anyway. I knew I was 1 lap ahead of DK as I just had lapped him before, so I just coasted the last 2 laps on the wrong tyres.
So, an ok-result, but somehow it felt like it could have been even better.
ho bloody hum. The first time was not that bad as the circuit was not that greasy but the second time it rained the circuit got real greasy and I kept spinning out even at low revs and even in 4th gear.
