thought race 1 was excellent fun.
Had great battles throughout with Goldtop, Lazlow and a pair of 'never give up' AI drivers. Fought between 5th and 9th the whole race despite getting suspension damage on lap 1. Alas with two laps remaining whilst sitting a hard earned 5th and with finally a few second gap back to GT, my car got extremely understeery...tyres probably worn out? and i just couldnt get any decent lines through the corners, running very wide and GT got by, rapidly followed by the two AI and Lazlow, demoting me to 9th
GT then had an incident at Eau rouge and i limped home to get 8th, which actually felt poor reward for so much hard racing !
As usual wasnt intending to do race 2 to keep the peace, but thought will do what ive done before for 2nd event, keep going until an incident happens then leave. Nearly ended on the s/f line ! For some reason my G25 gets crossed up under ffb for race 2 and when the light went green and i floored it, i went hard turn right towards the wall
Everyone behind must have thought whats that idiot doing
Got all out of sync going up eau rouge, lost a few places but chased Lazlow (again!) hard for a few laps until a dithering AI car made me slam the anchors on and speared into a concrete wall...d'oh!, end of.
Am clearly missing a caterham setup or driving trick as couldnt get near the top 5 on track, even a 2:32 qual lap only put me 8th
Couldnt seem to dial out enough understeer despite trying the normal tricks.
Cant we change the format of these races? Dont see why we need 20min qual session then two 20min races.
If qual was reduced to 10 mins it would mean i could probably make both races, but even then i'd rather it was one race 30-40mins long. And i think the AI should stay in, they do add to the occasion filling the grids out and making it feel a proper race and some of them drive very well and aggressively, albeit some are dumb-as....but hey, no dumber than some humans have raced here
...and yes i include myself in that!
Now imagine how cool these Evo GT's would be racing here at Spa.............................