I thought I had a sniff at a GT2 win with the small size of the field but when the race started wet I figured I was screwed since my offline testing had failed to find a working tyre combination. Luckily the rain was a lot heavier than I expected and along with an extra click of rear wing (1/7 - madness), soft wets on the front and hard wets on the rear worked pretty well.
Things didn't start well when I completely failed to see a GT1 barelling down the inside into Dunlop and got thumped off. Rejoined and then fell off all by myself in the second Ford chicane whilst trying to talk to FreQ on TeamSpeak. Lost nearly a minute digging myself out of the kitty litter and thought that would put me completely out of contention, but kept plugging away knowing that there was still a chance of a podium if a few other GT2s fell off.
If there's one thing I really dislike in a multiclass racing, it's letting faster class cars go by, only to have them fall off repeatedly in front of me, costing me yet more time as they pass again and again.
Tyres held up fairly well as the rain kept falling, and even after it stopped the track was so wet that I could go for well over an hour before they were overheating so badly I had to stop. By then my fuel was getting low in any case, so I pitted and gambled on hard wet fronts and intermediate rears, and filled the tank hoping to avoid taking any more fuel next time.
The strange tyre mix worked well for 5 laps until the rain started falling again; I spun in Ford 2 again, lucking not ending up in the gravel, and realised that I was now in need of full wets on the rear, and had to do a tippy-toe full lap back to the pits. Went back to my original selection of hard wet rears and soft wet fronts (and a splash of fuel, 'just in case' - wasted) and all was good again, despite a slightly overheating left rear in the faster sections. I'm not at all sure at what point I passed Andy for the GT2 lead - some time after the first stop I think - but by the end I had a big lead in class.
I've always found the 360 GTC to be too 'snappish' but at La Sarthe, the stock setup with very minimal tweaks (basically just diff, wings, ride height) was a peach.
CTD at the end of qualy :'(
We were hoping you'd get back in in time - why do these things always happen with too little time to rejoin?
Nooooo !! :'( lost connection when i went to leave my pitbox
Dont believe it, i was loving that.
We couldn't work out where you'd gone - I didn't notice a "MJ has left" message, I went to check on the standings and you just weren't there.
Thought he DQ'd after the race?
Silly sod was driving the wrong way up the pits after the chequered flag.
Results now corrected. That's why the rules say
Drivers should not drive the wrong way round the circuit after they finish, or engage in other activity likely to lead to an in-game DQ.
Otherwise poor old muggins here has to manually work out the race time and correct the results.