A couple of weeks ago when I was one of the six involved in the "Super pole", I thought it a waste of time. Sitting there twiddling my thumbs for 15 mins this time, watching the top 6 drivers not get near their previous times was not entertaining & did not enhance my enjoyment of the evening.
Luckily worse was to follow.
Joined the grid. Waited. The lights turn green & I eventually react & make a rubbishy slow get away. Yet I get black flagged?!!!
Was my pressing of the gas peddle so delayed that the marshals decided to punish me?
I drove round & completed my 1st lap, hoping the incorrect black flag would disappear. It didn't & I saw about 8 other drivers ducking into the pits
So I pitted at the end of the 2nd, thinking that it must have black flagged everyone. I stopped & hit enter very quickly... but then thought that I'd seen that it had awarded me 2 stop goes for the non-existent false start, but I couldn't be sure as I'd already hit enter. I left the pits & had no black flag on display, but then I saw Clive doing his 2nd pit stop....
As i approached the pits on the next lap, a couple of drivers showed as DQ on XD, obviously not realising they'd been generously gifted a stop/go. So i realised I couldn't take the chance & slammed on the anchors. Skidded into the wall opposite pit entry :'(, waited for a couple of cars to pass & entered the pits again. Managed to turn off all my tyre changing instructions etc, but guess what, I didn't have a 2nd stop/go & I'd just wasted my time pitting
I left the pits, 22 secs behind the next driver. That driver was Clive who had been 3 secs a lap quicker than me in practice & qually & the next driver was about 10 secs further up the road from him & I'm a few corners away from being lapped by the race leader.
So I quit out on what had been a dreadful evening at what is such a good track.
p.s. I checked the replay & unfortunately (on mine at least), it didn't show the start lights changing. Is that the same for all?