Jeez i must be the unluckiest sim racer known to man
Fired up the pc at 8.10 ready for the event only to find no internet or email
phoned ISP, who said yep their DNS servers had gone belly up and would take 20mins to fix roughly
So missed all praccy and most of qually...again. Turned up in a real tizz and fighting the clock to set a quick time only to outbrake myself on both my only flying laps...aaarrghh. :'(
Was doing 1:31's in qually spec on srouk server earlier so was confident of a high grid slot, but not to be.
Then warmup lap, i move to the side of car in front onto the pit exit and the surface is just like oiled ice !...car flicked left/right and into the wall, smashing my lights and giving me aero damage before a lap is done !
Dropped to back of grid for 2nd race in a row
Then fought my way back up through the grid to get to 6th within about 10minutes or so and seemingly flying with my decent (or so i thought) wet race setup sorted and closing on Brian in 5th. But then i got one of those corner exit power oversteers straight into the blinking wall
, lost about 12 secs or so and a place. Then a short while later i did the exact same thing and now my aero was severely mullered and rears were showing 20+ wear rate and rapidly turning to slicks despite no overheating temps
For last 10 mins or so i was just losing 1-3 secs a lap as car was a complete slippery hand full with those over worn rears.
Finished 7th i think, so not bad considering my traumas but should have been better based on my practise pace.
Gawd know how i can get a set of hard wets to survive 40mins.
Great win Dan and well done TT.