Well, it was good to actually make it as far as the grid / take part in an event without gpl crashing to desktop.
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I did have a crash in the qually session, then for some reason - it dawned on me that it may have occurred just after a Brabham had joined. Then remembered Rouen testing, where everything seemed ok for a few sessions until Billy turned up in his Brabham... hmm...
I then had another thought & removed the TvO Brabham update for the Santa vs. Elves event. From subsequently examining all the 65 races since - seems I'd been having issues since that but had not noticed the pattern. Well - too early to say for sure, but hopefully that's my 65 gremlins sorted out...
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Had a spin round this new track the other day; setups seem a bit sparse! That lack of dog-leg on the straight caught me out the 1st time round!
Tried out 3rd party Mosport & Zandvoort setups. Zandvoort was 7 seconds better for me. Was happy enough with a 1:55.79 after a couple of laps at that point; but unfortunately only a handful of laps on gplrank to compare it with.
On the pre-event practice server, was pleased to shave 2 seconds off that.
In the qually session, it was plain to see how far off the pace I still was, despite taking another second off.
From perching on a couple of shoulders, noticed I must have been under-geared in 5th, so I actually made a (rare) adjustment of a couple of clicks [which went the right way too!]. At least I was getting more than the previous ~154MPH on the straight.
Race was fun & it was good to see the 2x Hondas in front battling away for most of it. Unfortunately both machines/drivers were too quick for me; especially on the straight. However with a tow, I was at least getting near 165MPH; but was otherwise a sitting duck out there.
Towards the end, I think Bastian tried to make it more interesting by having a bit of a crash & losing some time allowing me to close up quite a bit - but I really could have done with him going further off track
Got it wrong through the polos a couple of times - luckily they seem to be made of marshmallow!
Congrats Walter on the win, but both those Ferraris were definitely flying [as were both Hondas unfortunately].
I could see the position behind me was changing somewhat, so hoped they would be keeping each other too busy
No worries on the shorter than expected event.
Cheers all, hopefully will make it to the event next time too.
Dave.