Thanks for the race, we'll pretend the rolling start really was 80kph and not 120 

Happy to stay on the track for 30mins - I think if the cars were running fixed setups & ballast it would've been much closer.

Laus has some evil corners. With the 2020 DTM cars I haven't yet completed more than two consecutive laps without binning it.

Congrats on the win, Frex, and Markus for the Championship!


You give me too much credit - during the last few laps I was in panic mode; I could barely drive the thing whilst watching the fuel numbers tick to zero, confused why I had under-fuelled the car. When I checked my setup after the race the estimator thingy said 14.8 laps - which turned out to be depressingly accurate. Tire wear wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I think they would've scraped another 3-4 laps.

Anyway - thanks for the great races, everyone, I hope to do some more.

Bugger.

It's the same story with the '92 Mercedes - the left side tires are glowing hot while the right side don't even break a sweat. That's just Zandvoort    it has three turns that absolutely torture the rubber and very few left-handers. Even if you drive conservatively (no tire squealing) the left side temps remain nuclear.

Here's a preview of Silverstone.

On reading the race reports I'd prefer the results to be adjusted and have Frex recorded as the winner.

After a trademark awful start I settled into third, but coming around the end of the first lap I followed Geoff wide into the sand. I think he wisely backed off the throttle while his tires cleaned up. I didn't, and so entered a sickeningly drawn out slide into the barriers. Thankfully I didn't wreck anyone.

By the time I got back on track everyone was out of sight so I just set out to salvage what I could. I tried being extra-gentle through the right-handers and squealing through the left-handers but mainly I just pushed. By the final laps my tires were three red and one orange and I was in third, stuck between Markus and Geoff. I was convinced one of my tires was going to explode, and every weird noise the car made (the '95 makes a lot of weird noises) sent a chill down my spine.

Don't know what happened at the end  - but the race was 'interesting' 

This car is like driving chewing gum 

It was your thread at the Sector 3 forums.

 

BUGGER!

Sorry I missed his one - I'd convinced myself it was this Sunday   

Anyway I've made a note of the dates so hopefully I'll be in the rest of the races.

Well that was a) Fun b) Disastrous c) Educational 

First 5 or 10 minutes I was going OK, then the tires started going off and my already understeery car became practically un-driveable. Going through the mouse-trap I realise now I was steering too much into the corner so I was basically attempting to 'snow-plow' my way through the corner. By the 20 minute mark my front-right was flashing red and I had just tipped the thing on it's roof so I pitted for fresh tires.

Many lessons learned, thanks for the race.