Grats to Tim and Uli and all finishers.
When I saw that Tim was using the Brab BT24, in which he set his 2:57 lap last time we raced here, I was expecting some stellar times
My original intention had been to take the MS80 to see if it could beat my old record.
I couldn't get it to drive as nicely though on the limit - it was much safer, but that safety took the edge off.
I think it may also be the added width of the car, I'm pretty certain that the MS10 is quicker than the 80 at Monaco for that exact reason!
My race went very well, I think my race fastest lap is quicker than my old race FL in the Brab - but I did run into some unusual mechanical difficulties from lap 5 or 6 which forced me to take it more steadily.
I'd tweaked the old race setup (that always had less downforce than the the qually setup to ensure I could reach T2 first) to try to increase my lap times while not loosing me too much time down the straight on lap 1.
This evidently worked, but the age of my wheel and the severity of the steering work required here actually caused my G25's encoder to get lost.
Somewhere around lap 6 I ran slightly too tight to the inside of a fast corner, one I know not to intentionally drop a wheel off of. And I put a wheel in the dirt, this always causes a massive feedback spike and normally causes an accident but I managed to save it.
On the next straight I realised my wheel was no longer centered on the straights and was about 10 or 12 degrees off to the left. This was throwing me a bit in the fast left/right sections so I backed off a bit thinking I'd damaged the suspension.
After the race I checked GPLRA, apparently I managed the entire race with no damage. So I fired GPL back up, yup, wheel was still off centre.
After quiting and unplugging/re-plugging the wheel it suddenly center normally again!
Very annoying as my intention had been to take the record for race Fl. I possibly had the car to do it but was let down by my own wheel!
Thanks to the backmarkers for spotting me and giving room, good work on the odd car choices some (especially Axel!) and well done to the finishers.
That was hard, but a bloody good challenge as always