I must apologise for the carnage at the end of the straight on Lap 1.
I think I was running in 3rd spot behind Gareth and Tris as we hit the braking zone for the blind flick through the hedges and......my screen went black!!!!
I thought I had suffered a disco and was frantically hitting the escape key. Then suddenly the screen came back to life and my car was against the greenery ,but surrounded by other cars ...oops!!
The car had all 4 wheels and the engine was still running so I quietly slipped away from the scene of the accident.
Sorry to anyone who suffered from that, but I had a similar blackout in a GT race at Spa before Christmas and I am wondering WTF is going on. Al did mention that he had experienced something similar when he was running Windows XP and switched to Windows7.
Does anyone else have any thoughts?
After my recovery Tris and Gareth were long gone and although I managed to get myself up to 3rd place I could not close the gap. So I had a lonely race with only the occasional backmarker to pass. In the last few laps my brain was in meltdown and I made several mistakes, but fortunately none of them caused any lasting damage and the car got me to the finish and a podium.
I enjoyed the race but would have enjoyed it even more if it involved some more racing alongside other cars rather than watching prib each lap to see if the gap had changed.
Thanks to Axel for organising and grats to Tris and Gareth for their performance.