After the problems in the first two races what could possibly go wrong with this race??
I had played with this XJS monster offline and after starting with times around the 2:27 gradually chipped away until I did a PB under 2:20.
So, I was hoping to give a better account of myself in the final race, if only for my own satisfaction.
I noticed a lot of chat about cars and problems as we all joined the server. Something about a conflict between the #12 and #44 cars?
So I loaded up the #12 XJS and selected the uber alien setup that I had carefully built. Blasted out onto the circuit and went up through the gears...only to discover that I had 2 x 3rd gears and no 4th!!! This was a problem I had about a week ago. Back then, I had time to totally rebuild the setup by painstakingly copying across all of my parameters to modify the default and regain 4 different ratios, but with only a few mins and a qualifying session to complete it was impossible.
I started the race with a car that was very unstable under braking and a long way from the comfortable smooth car that I thought I would have.
Apologies again for getting in the way of other drivers until I finally wrecked the car against the wall at the end of the back straight and putting us all out of my misery
I never expected to win any silverware in these races against the aliens, but I had hoped to at least put up a reasonable fight
I did enjoy the challenge of these races and hope that we can do it all again soon ( ish ), just as soon as I seek and destroy my computer gremlins!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL