Today was a strange day for me.
Like a teenager, I came on the server shy and hesitant. The first time at Nordschleife, first time in race online...
I had ever a fear of this track, also in GPL (but I admit that I was much more little), never learnt completly, too complex, too dangerous, too green...
In AC just touched it maybe 3 or 4 times; why need to learn a track with 77 corners when I have a lot of normal tracks?
But today I couldn't escape from my fears. I did 4 days of full immersion to learn the layout, and at last I did a clean lap. 8.28
Hum, could be a decent lap? I opened the Stracker, and looking the ChrisR laptime: I'm a hopeless noob!
But the 'ring is the 'Ring, so I decided anyway to partecipate, is the last race of the championship, and this legendary track need my respect. So I decide to face my fears.
I qualify in 7th position, wow, I say, not bad for me! Just only 20 second from the first!
Start! Luckly I mantained my position really close from... I don't remember, Mark? Anyway I started to enter in tunnel vision (really bad choice) and indeed I did a easy mistake: I did a "S" in 4th instead 3rd.
The german ARMCO in pure Krupp steel destroyed all two right side suspensions. And this at first lap.
Sadness and depression started to pervade my soul. But at last I tought "I decided to partecipate at ring, and I want to finish the race"
So I did all the race with the steering well on left, and at last lap I did an overtake too!
My maximium speed was around 231 km/H, 5th gear was really useless!
I finished the race 11th, at least, not bad for me
Thank for the championship guys, was the my first online championship, and was really funny and an incredible experiece! I hope that this will follow to other historical champ, with other cars and tracks!
Merry Christmas to all, cya at Kyalami