That was a very tough race, really feel like ive driven it for real
Got a CTD in qually and had to start again. Think it is a lobby issue as had the same earlier today in a different online race and never normally suffer them.
Had great fights all race long with picnic, Darren and Jan, always a handful of seconds dividing us all on track.
My stop went perfect from my side again, but once again the stupid AI put a little fuel in even though its set to 0 litres in my setup
Came out the pits and i found myself 13 seconds behind Picnic even though it was down to a few before we both stopped on same lap.
I then set about chasing Picnic and Darren down, thinking Darren still had to make a stop, but he had done a crafty early one.
Then as i came through sector 2 in the uphill section i saw Darren and Picnic had had a coming together, but i felt a bit gutted (but also pleased
) as i was closing the pair of them down at 1-3 secs a lap and with still a good 20 odd mins left so was shaping up for a titanic 3-way end of race scrap. After that i had an anti-climax end of race, with team mate TT about 30 seconds up the road and the nearest behind me by 22 seconds so just coasted around to the end.
Finished 5th behind TT's 4th. Did a solid job but a lot of effort for the scant reward of 5th after 80mins hard graft
I find it a bit de-moralising that i cant get a sniff of a podium when there is 3 aliens always up front.
But i even finished 35 secs down on TT, so obviously still not got this track cracked setup wise
GT1 guys were all great at lapping, though H@9000 is still way to hesitant to pass and i kept losing time hanging off racing line expecting him to go through only for him to sit back behind me. Gentlemanly i know, but would rather you nipped through a bit more aggressively to save us both time
Congrats to the uber fast guys on the respective class podiums.