Sorry but not gonna make this one as I'm away for work from the 26th June till the 15th July. 

I was lying a distant 4th or 3rd ?  not sure cos I daren't take my eyes off the road to look.
Steven was giving chase so I stepped up the pace a little and he then faded (I think he may have had  a "moment")
Kruger was way ahead of me , I was starting to get that "lonesome feeling " and thinking about my pit in ( what was the ruddy pit window ? sod,  I forgot it again)

Then entering the downhill esses,  I had a ginormous and uncontrolable sneeze ! I tell you this was the sneeze of the century , Krakatua was nothing on this baby, the house shook to the foundations , the cat ran for cover , the neighbours came out to see what all the commotion was about, convinced that Aliens had landed  !

When I had recovered my composure  , I noticed I was stationary , my Coop minus its Left front , the dashboard,  wheel and screen all covered in dripping snot 

Not the best way to end a race but certainly different 

How was it for you



 

I decided to pit hoping to pass you that way, but then blew it by having a "moment".

Another 4th by attrition for me. I didn't drive very consistently: 3/4 spins and a "technical problem": my screen suddenly faded out to black, but I could hear my engine was still running. Slammed on the anchors, and then realised it was probably the screen saver kicking in for no very good reason  . Tapped the keyboard and sure enough, there was my Cooper parked on the tarmac. I adopted a "one tap per lap" strategy to stop it happening again  .

Still more fun than iRacing (perhaps that because I "know" how to drive a GPL car), but I hope to be able to drive the Skip Barber car within a week, so that may change.

Hmmm!  well it was all working so well until............
I knew that qually would not see me in pole position, not with Hristo in a Brab ( or anything else come to that) and Ken in a Lotus ( brave man ) and Brendan the Cooper specialist Oh! and Kruger.
So I settled for some laps on race fuel to see just how fast I could go and was amazed to be showing 3rd !! but knew it would not last, it never does!!!
 ....But it did ...just!!!lol
Brendan had technical probs and unfortunately missed the start..hard luck Brendan :O ..So I was behind the Lotus of Ken and Hristo was doing the gentleman thing after his faux pas in starting qually a tad early (tsk! tsk!). Got a good start and was still half expecting Kruger to come around me on T1 but as I crested the rise going in to T2 I had a small gap.
There was no way I was going to keep up with Ken's Lotus, but if I could keep time gap to a minimum then maybe just maybe the pitstops would play into my hands. After a few laps I could still see Ken, so he was not pulling that much of a gap in front and a healthy 3 sec gap back to Kruger which was stretching tenth by tenth. Hristo appeared on Prib and soon passed Kruger and began closing...ah well only to be expected I suppose!  lol.
Then, I inadvertantly dropped 2 gears at the top of the hill and crashed into second gear when the engine thought it should have been third!!! the whizzy bits did not like this sudden change in their routine and in protest they went on a go slow!!! Pottered around for a few more laps wondering if it was worth doing the next 30 odd laps at a snails pace just in case everyone else crashed or blew their brains out.
In the end frustration got the better of me and I rammed the armco at the top of the hill to put myself out of my misery!!!
Disappointed not to have done a lot better, as it seems I had the pace about right . Grats to the finishers  and commiserations to Brendan for his CTD ( what happened to Burt??) .
Slime Crock next....oh whoopy doo :O((
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I like it too.

My car choice last night was mainly just to add some variety to my recent GPL driving and to enjoy the lovely Lotus engine wav file that Ducwolf posted at RSC a few weeks ago. I felt really comfortable in the Ferrari last week in the Masters and it is actually a much easier car to get around Road Atlanta, but I'm always up for a challenge.

I couldn't quite get a nice rythm going in the early part of qually but with others taking the slower cars I was still on pole with Hristo offering to start at the back.

Anyway then I got myself in a right knot. I realised my profiler wasn't running and so GPLWait wouldn't work. I left to start it up and in the process accidently started rFactor. Now that takes about 5 mins to load at the best of times so I was frantically typing ctrl-alt-del and managed to kill it before the splash screen got going.

Then when I got back on the server the FF was totally different, it was much lighter and I couldn't drive it. I had to leave again and sort it all out. My global settings and GPL settings had got all mixed up somehow!!!

Anyway after all that I did manage to make the race start but not exactly in a calm frame of mind.

I just never felt comfortable and ran wide when Hristo caught me. After that I was lucky that my potential main rivals struck trouble and I was able to drive conservatively home to second.

Personally I liked Atlanta , I could develop a nice rythm there . The big shock was finding out just how much off the pace I was . where the heck do I get those extra 5 secs from ?

Ok I'm not greedy just gimme  3 seconds , please , I promise to be good (for the next  race at least)   


 

Well, that's just like having a sex in the dark

I prefer to see the "curves" and know exactly where I'm going