As i feared and expected, i had an awful race here.
I know this is mentioned countless times but my car was so 'completely' different to my offline practise it was ridiculous !
Only the evening before i was pumping in regular low-mid 1:09's with two different setups, one soft, one stiffer. But last night, those same setups felt awful. I had horrid understeer, really poor brakes and slow acceleration
Had a terrible qually as i wasted so many flying laps trying to get the damn car to stop at T1
To compound my misery, the fuel calc was so badly wrong in the race that i was carrying the equivalent of an endurance race fuel load in a tight little track. I still had 66 litres sloshing about onboard after 25 minutes
which would explain why the car felt fat, lazy and understeering
Not sure if i missed a post, but i thought the srouk mods were supposed to make us aware of any faults with tracks like this ?...or was it a bit of handy insider info for TS employees only?
I finished the race with 38litres onboard and i had only fueled for allegedly 45mins in the garage menu
Race was a case of damage limitation for me as just didnt have the speed in the car to catch the guys in front. I kept a steady pace of 1:11's and picked off one or two cars early on but had to just try and keep station behind 8th and 9th for majority of race with DG doing likewise behind me. Two errors at T1 as the car refused to stop in time, allowed DG to scamper past and i grumbled all the way to the finish line in frustration.
A quick note to the backmarker who tried to race me when i lapped him, your being lapped for a reason! It means the guy lapping is faster so dont try and outbrake him down the inside at T1. If i hadnt taken avoiding action i would have been t-boned off the track with only 2 laps remaining. I believe the same culprit nerfed Pops too?
A race to forget for me. It gave me the hump for the rest of the evening !