If anyone wondered about my bizarre behaviour: At my 2nd pitstop my crew chief never showed up. And although I must've been more or less in the right spot, nothing happened. I could quit, I could go around the buildings but that would have likely ended in a Wrong Way DQ so I decided to go round the track with 0.7 laps of fuel. I coasted a lot, short shifted by a mile, but I don't think I would have made it without a little pushing by Dan. Thanks mate, and that was funny.
Don't worry, I kept out of the way and if there had been as much of a hint of an incident threatening to happen, I'd ESC'ed in a flash.

Not much to say about the race otherwise. Everyone seemed to be in a league of their own with very little interaction. Not sure I'm a fan of multi class races to be honest.

One thingy that will shock Geoff and Daz: After some laps, I started to -wait for it- like the Escort. 

Grats to podium and the survivors. 

I made a pact with....someone.
#666 please.

Sorry for buggering of so quickly after the race but I had been beginning to feel unwell from the heat halfway the second race and when I reached for a drink I dropped the glass and my floor, including the pedals, was all glass and Coca-Cola. I needed to sort that out asap after the race. All fine now.

Not pleased with my races. I really should do better with cars such as these. What's a misspent youth worth if you can't even imitate real life with hot hatches in the 80's on a sim rig, aye. Or were all of you yobbo's too?  

Right now I barely remember a thing about the races except that in race 1 Tony literally dropped out of the sky on top of my poor Renault. I was giggling for at least two laps after that.

Congratulations to the podia and judging from the results I think they put a turbo into Clive rather than a pacemaker.

It's May, 20th and we're already hitting 27°C again. Insane.
Nevertheless this year I'm going to try to soldier on. Morituri te salutant 

Quite the uneventful evening for me. But that's a good thing. 

I don't know the protocol but I think race 1 deserved a restart. 6 or 7 cars went off or got blocked in T1 without any clear culprit(s). Should we use chat for that?
Once the dust settled I was in a bit of no man's land chasing nocatu and while I got a bit closer I'd have needed a hundred more laps to catch up. At least I managed a half decent setup for a new car which is very, very rare.

The Beemer was great fun but with all those aliens nowadays the only battle I had was with Geoff in a lower league car. He got past but I almost had him back on the line, 0.139 seconds was the difference. Ironically during practice I thought my setup was a horror but it went well and judging from Dimitar's video it might even have been better than average. One of these days I'm going to learn this stuff, lol.

There are actually a lot more tracks which you don't like where I thrashed you 
I once almost lapped you at Goodwood of all places.

This would be an easy list to make if I could post mental images. Lacking that opportunity as well as a memory for names and years, I came up with this:

Targa Florio

Circuit de la Sarthe (must have Porsche curves, must NOT have Mulsanne chicanes)
Spa-Franchorchamps (version with bus stop on the left)
Nordschleife (also VLN)
Monaco

Nemuno Žiedas
Circuit du Mas du Clos
Laguna Seca
Zandvoort
Knockhill
Bridgehampton
Lime Rock Park
Watkins Glen (NO Inner Loop)
Willow Springs
Hidden Valley
österreichring (absolutely NOT the A1-Ring)
Oran Park Raceway

Both you and Dimitar are most welcome additions to this league, no doubt, and I haven't the slighest notion something like this was with intent on Dimitar's part but as anyone here can vouch on behalf of Bob, neither would he ever do anything like that intentionally. You guys are really, really fast while some of us, at least some of the time, have no chance of battling for the victory but we still want to have an enjoyable race if only between us backmarkers. There IS room for both parties, but it does require a slight adaptation from the ultra fast guys. Just a little. I tend to agree on the waiting part but only because I'm off the opinion that this particular type of incident shouldn't happen in the first place.

Anyway, I'll back out of the discussion now and hope that Tony steps in to tell us all how we should behave 

As for my race, despite having found a genuine JohnW^TM setup, the car's behaviour was a shambles. I had no idea what it was going to do in any corner and those two tightest right handers followed by a dip I had to take as I was driving in a pedestrian part of town. No pace, no control, so I let everyone pass, regardless of whether they were lapping or in the same lap. Combat would have ended in tears for sure. On the one hand it was a shame because I so do like monsters, but that doesn't mean I can drive them (with one notable exception the mention of which will make people like Geoff or Daz sigh: "here we go again"  ). Still, I somehow made it to the finish so there's that. Congrats to everyone for managing these lunatics especially Dan with that insane Porker.

Sorry, Dimitar, but it's ALWAYS the responsibility of the overtaking or lapping car to avoid incidents. You were at lightning speed and Bob was considerably slower and fresh out of the pits so you could/should expect him -or any non-alien for that matter- to brake way earlier than you're able too. Like I said some time ago, us mortals are slower for a reason and the aliens should take that into account. There are no trophies or money prizes to win here. (Note that I'm speaking for myself here, I do not represent SROUK).

I hope you reconsider, Bob. If you don't, I wish you all the best too. We had some great battles back in the day. I for one would miss you.

I'm quite pleased with tonight's race. All went well. First I found a setup in my Cadwell folder which turned out to be very tolerable. Apparently we raced here last year -zero recollection- and either I got a gift setup or it was one of my very rare succesful creations. Qualification went well too. The first three didn't count anyway as that's the Unattainable Alien League and amongst humans only nocatu was in front of me which offered the possibility of a fun full race battle. I dropped a few places at the start but that didn't bother me. Staying on the track was going to be far more important. I always keep some extra distance and tolerance in the first lap anyway and once again that paid off as Dan and -alas- nocatu had a bit of a tiff. A bit later I managed to squeeze past Mike Harley which put me in fourth, which, again, I considered First of the Humans. The gap with the Aliens grew so fast that Dimitar could even afford a few hiccups -confirmed in another enjoyable video which is most appreciated- without having to worry too much about me. Behind me the gap grew to some 20 seconds so I could consolidate quite early. Finally a race in 2020 I didn't mess up in one way or another!

Congratulations to the podium. How on earth you guys manage it, I'll never know, let alone be capable of.

@Hristo! I'm sure you didn't realize it but you parked your car plonk in the middle of the opposite side of the track after you finished. At least 4 cars, myself included, had to avert it with a last second swerve.

@Dan, I agree with you. It's implicitly clear anyway that it's very appreciated. Not having a 'Thank you' button assigned I started saying 'Hi' to those I passed because there were so many "Thank you's" I started to feel like an ungrateful bastard when not saying anything.

Thank you, I'll have a go on the morrow.

I would appreciate that very much, thank you. Setup's been an uphill battle for a decade.

If I may ask, how did you do that? I found the problem insolvable with the ensuing predictable consequences (Not that I was much better in the Elan though....  ).

Congrats for taking that spastic little ferret not only to the finish but in a more than reasonable position.

It's the standard 26R, Daz