I took the Lister to see if it would be competitive here, and it is, some what
. It is sooooo different in comparisson to GTR1. In GTR1 it was a car you can throw around till eternity, but now it was a twisty little *bleep*
.
I couldn't get a PB in qually, so I had to be happy with 2nd. But my big payment to the marshalls paid off, and they put me on the 1st gridposition
(great bug
).
The first few laps LeH was driving away from me slowly, but after that I was gaining on him, and really putting the pressure on. He made some small mistake, but the acceleration of the Lambo made up for that. At some point we were going side by side through T1, and both keeping the throttle on. That was really cool
, but again, the Lambo pulled away before the poor little Lister could.
Shortly after that, LeH lost it and spun, donating 1st place.
At that point the hunter got hunted, as I had Pablo and Matjaz behind me
.
Pablo was quicker than me, but he was chased by Matjaz closely, so he was also under pressure. When Pablo got held up, Matjaz overtook him, but a few moments later, he spun in his favourit corner and Pablo was alone on the hunt.
I could keep a gap for a few laps, but after that he was in my rear like mad. I had to push hard to keep a good exitspeed. After overtaking some backmarkers, I got another gap.
8 Minutes before the end, I got the message: "Tyres worn"
. So I had to keep a 2s lead, for 8 minutes on worn fronts. But to make matters worst, 4 minutes later, I got that same message again, and my rears were also shot
. In every race I've taken soft fronts and medium rears. I know the Lister as a tyre friendly car, so I thought that that car and track combo would go hand in hand, but no such luck. Guess others also had that problem. At that point I was at Pablo's mercy, as he was much faster at that point.
He did a great overtaking move in the last corners, 3 laps before the end, and I saw him drive away after that.
Thanks to all the people who were lapped for good fair driving. No strange manouvres through my front windshield (which got very dirty towards the end, hardly saw a thing
).
Now for the negative things. As we have many new drivers, we can lose a few who can't read the bloody rules, and violate the rules every time. Maybe ban them for a race of they keep breaking the rules?