Grats Sam, another demonstration drive!!!
As this was a fun drive I exchanged my usual fundoshi for a bouffant hair style and a pair of scissors
and cranked up the Ferrari for a first ever outing.
Starting from the default setup, I jumped upon Nicky's server that was running just prior to the "fun race" and the Glutbuckets started tweaking things.
I quite quickly found that the Ferrari is does not handle like a Wazamobile and that Arnold's delicate adjustments with his 4kg hammer had not improved things much!! I took his hammer away and told him to use more sophisticated and scientific methods.. so he went to the back of the pits and returned with a 2 mtr scaffold pole and set about the suspension settings.
The result was a setup that "worked" in so far as it would accelerate more or less in a straight line and would allow me to at least control a slide, something that was to prove invaluable later
The fun race was great with a full grid and lots of swapping of positions on the first few laps and I just managed to hang on to the leading group whilst I got used to the Glutbucket's novel setup.
As the race went on a few cars ran wide until about mid-way when I think a lot of us experienced some very bad warpage. At times all cars would vanish from the track and prib for several seconds and one had to just hope that they were still going as fast and in the same direction as when last seen until they re-materialised
One such warp occurred as a I was following Fulvio towards Big Bend when he re-appeared I was almost up his exhaust pipes and although I registered no contact I think warp punted him off... sry Fulvio as that was shaping up to be a good scrap. Nicky was next up the road in 3rd place and eventually he made a mistake and took the "extra" wide line through the Loop.. not recommended as the snow was very deep out there.
Mr Whitwell was next ( new name to me, are we to see more of this gentleman in UKGPL??) who was in 2nd spot and appeared to be recovering from a "moment" when I caught him. It was about this point that the limitations of the setup showed themselves in overheated tyres which provoked even more sideways action at every corner and lost me some time meaning that I had to settle for 3rd...still not too bad for an apprentice hairdresser??