and suffered a spin or two of my own
I think we all did. I know at one point I was thinking, "I'm sure lucky others, like you, Bob, and Tim, are having as many bad laps as I am."
Gutted for Greg and Baab,
Thanks for the sympathy. The way qualifying went, it looked like an excellent opportunity for a Team Baarf 1,2 finish. I was content to follow Bob until at least late in the race. My biggest concern was doing everything I could to not wreck Bob. Once he made a mistake, my other thought kicked into overdrive, "open as big a gap as possible on as many drivers as possible."
pretty sure an MS80 should have been closer to Greg's pace or at least faster than I was peddling!
You were surprising slow. That was another reason I pressed hard the first ten laps. I didn't want to give you a chance to learn the track before I was gone. Same thing applied to Axel, Clive, and Tom.
This does appear to be a track where I have some strength. I drove a lot of laps here in the M8F when the track was released. I held the fastest time here for a while until Urban decided to better it. For curiosity's sake and since my M8F time was almost 3 years old, I decided to try to improve it. I have the top time again with room left for improvement. I improved my M7 time too after the race with more room for improvement.
I was able to challenge somebody much better than me in the 67s, which surprised me at the time. And had I not been sick, which I hadn't yet realized, I likely would have challenged Bob, Rob, and Iestyn throughout the Works race held here. This has to be one of my better tracks.
Eventually, I'll check to see if there's much difference between the M7, MS80, BT26, and 49B here. I suspect they're all very close with BT26 being fastest.
Even with the lousy ending, it was a lot of fun.
From checking the replay it looks like 6 of us disappeared at once.
That's a shame, otherwise I recommend to Axel we try this one in the GTs. This track may be fine for the 67s? I don't remember problems with the Works race nor do I remember if it was run at 60fps. oAo seemed to be fine here but that was run at 36fps.
Take care guys and thanks for letting me race with you.