Quote from Clive Loynes.
"This win must be down to everyone saving their tokens for IMS in two weeks time, and Evil taking a day off. What he was up to in qually is a mystery"
I'm finally back in GPL world. Grats to Clive on the win and to all finishers at Silverstone.
Well, yes there was a cunning plan to collect my tokens to fund my end of season charge up the rankings. Some of you might have heard that I was taking a vacation on a remote clifftop in Cornwall, and that was what screwed my cunning plan
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The brochure said Wi-Fi available...and it was, but only if you were in a wooden shed in the corner of the caravan site. So, I had loaded up the GPL 55's at home and did a trial run wet and rainy day with my trusty lap top sat in the wi-fi shed.
Woohoo, joined Igor and got myself onto the server, I could use the Gordini on keyboard. All I had to do was get myself into the shed and log on to Igor before 9:30. No qualifying time, just sit on the back of the grid and wait for the pack to rush off. Then crawl across the S/F line and grab 10 tokens......simple
what could possibly go wrong??
Quite a lot !!! I discovered lol. At 9:15 my laptop just did not want to hook up to the free wi-fi. I fixed that by beating it with a large stick!
Finally connected to Igor and selected the race server.........now it won't accept the password!!!
More beating with a stick and my Gordini materialised in the pits
. Then it wasn't
Quit and rejoin.
Three attempts later I'm back in the pits and waiting for the start.
Then I am suddenly back on desktop!!
with 3 minutes until the start!!
Rejoin again, just in time, and quali is over .............race about to start...........OK here we go.............and I get a message "your bandwidth is insufficient to maintain the connection",
dumped back to desktop.
So, that is why I appeared and vanished several times. I did not pass go and did not collect 10 tokens thanks to Cornish wi-fi
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I might even have to do some serious chassis planning to see how I can work the rest of the season and be competitive.