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Track: Mosport (2012)

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (31 laps)

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit stops required: No

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Special Notes: None

Really sorry to miss this one - severe pain in lower back, both hips and left leg.

Unable to concentrate on thse beasts.

Will try to keep going whenever and as long as possible. Specialist appointment not until end of august  :P

Have fun guys.

Sorry to hear that Kurt. Hope you get fixed up soon.

After two big wall hits my car was undriveable so had to quit out.

I rolled the car onto Sterling Moss's head, bent the steering, no patience to get it fixed. I might finish one of these events......
Good version of the modern track except for the black surfaces, made the car really unstable.

The human mind is a curious thing, what on earth made me decide to reverse back onto the track ? Complete madness. Sincere apologies to Ziu. ruined your race. Sorry mate.
On a side note, finished the race (three laps behind the winner I have to admit) . Not too bad after a three months' absence.

cheers, Dan

Results and replay now posted.

Grats to Daz (who was too fast for me to catch) and to Ziu (who was on another planet with 1:19's!!) .

After Ziu's unfortunate meeting with Dan, there were a few laps where I was actually running in second place. But, I had lost my front splitter very early in the race and a few more impacts had not improved the handling at all ( perhaps I was not hitting the barriers hard enough??).
Finally failed to make the Moss turn, stalled the engine and watched as Ziu sailed past to take 2nd spot :-\

With a small grid and both Tony and Matt dropping out it was a lonely race, but I had finally built a setup and learned how to drive it to extract some decent times. If only I could keep all the bits on the car for the whole race I might have a shot at more podium places. ::)

I also noticed the "rough" black tarmac on a couple of corners and although it did make the car feel unstable, I felt that it made the track very realistic. Plus, I actually knew when I was getting close to the limit through those corners as the rear end would begin to twitch and threaten to step out, which it did on more than one occasion !!!

Just couldn't get the car to work here really, and consequently had no chance at all of getting anywhere near the laptimes Ziu was doing, or in fact any idea how he was doing them!

Some of the problems were being caused by that tarmac that the local travelling community had obviously been paid to lay, which was very far from flat and level! Car was bouncing all over it, and then flying off the road if I tried to get the throttle on. Eventually get into the 21s, with a full tank to replicate race pace, but held no aces in hand to change up how the race was likely to go.

Ziu got a better launch, and it became clear his pace was decent in the race as well as quali, he was pulling away easily by about at least a second per lap. I had already decided to go at a steady race pace, and not stop for fuel or tires, so did not go chasing very hard as I could not see the point.

However, a fistful of laps in, the gap suddenly came down, and I came across Dan and Ziu stranded in turn 1, and eased on by to take the lead. Ziu got away, and closed me down initially, but I could see in the mirror that he was missing the complete front bumper. I didn't think that would give him much chance to stay with me, too much laptime loss with damage like that, and so it proved eventually.

I still didn't pit, and that remained the goal, which I just about managed. The car was really bad by the end, but I made it home, to take a totally undeserved win. Dan confirmed how undeserved it was in his apologies to Ziu after the race. Unlucky Ziu, you had the pace here for sure, no way I could challenge those laptimes, left me in the dust!

Result (https://www.avonrise.co.uk/srou/kurts/_2022//29062022_Mosport)


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Thanks Kurt  :thumbup1: