I wonder if anyone can help, I have a problem watching my replays, after a few minutes I regularly have a CTD and have to reload the game. I think it started popping up after I joined a few races via VROC, I suspect some file may be corrupted. Any idea of something I could try anyone? Reinstall for the replays is obviously out of question
Thanks guys.
As for my race, rather disappointing of course. I had a few tenths in my pocket on the brabbys and quite a few more on the BRMs which I put to good use snatching pole. But that was all the good that came out of this race, as after the start, by making sure I was giving all the room to Joe on the inside at turn 1, I found myself off the line at turn 2. It is a sort of double apex turn, and in that position you need to be dead slow to make it round it, if it surprises you when suddenly you reach the second part you have already run out of road. Well, I had done precisely that mistake in a practice race trying to pull a pass on Al, and I
thought I was going dead slow at the start of the real race. Not quite enough obviously..
So hit the brakes in haste, spun, gravel, dead last from pole. Dont you just hate when it happens..
The low attendance, a couple of helpful guys at the back (thank you!), a couple of people spinning and a slide too many from Clive allowed me in fourth place by lap 4 or 5, reeling in fast on Al and Bob who were a few secs away. Joe was out of reach, but a podium still possible. But passing is not as easy as it looks like around here, as if you dont want to dive in one of the slow corners of sector 1, you need to put in the pass at turn 1 after the S/F straight, which includes a rather faithful close chase of the guy ahead through the flat out chicane, hoping you can gauge his sliding or confidence lifting to perfection. Unfortunately, that turned out to be an academic problem for me, as things panned out. I had had a lucky escape, hitting the inside at the fast left hander of S3 (the cursed Villeneuve bend, by the way), which had sent me around the trees on the outside, but in a couple of laps Al was already in sight again. Too much in sight at one point, as I turned in after the braking point of S3 just to stare straight into his big grin while he was waiting for me in his motionless car precisely on my trajectory. I suspect I must have seen something anomalous in the corner of my eye while braking for that corner, as my braking point was very marginal and I would have run wide anyway and maybe even kissed the barriers. Instead it was collision full on. No ones fault of course Al, actually it was avoidable had I been on a normal line for that bend!
Getting going again, I immediately realised the car was totally rubbished, not really straight on the straights, and very little collaborative in anything that went left. The right handed bits were not too bad, if a bit twitchy here and there. I seriously considered quitting, as plodding around with a broken charriot for half a race is really not my thing, but after a couple of laps of adjustments I realised I could keep up with Clive who was a few seconds behind, and with Al a few seconds ahead, so decided to soldier on, hoping in a mistake from the ones ahead which never came, but also taking my fourth finish in a row in the process. Which doesnt sound like a lot, but it is not bad at all considering I amassed no more than 10 mins racing in the first 3 races I did with pro rules
Grats to SuperJoe and the quick podium. I would add grats to all finishers, but there were 5 of us! Not everyone is a fan of this track I can see, although I really liked it from the start, theres not an uninteresting corner, good racing possible but not too easy, really nice sweeping last section. Good choice whoever decided to introduce it at UKGPL.
Suppose that next round will be all about who explodes the last
See you there guys, thanks for the racing.