Clive and me were in hot pursuit as we followed you guys into Wurth. The smoke was dense and I was convinced I would collect one of you. The replay shows that I had a very, very lucky escape. Thought I might actually win this one! But a mistake by me, also at Wurth, left me crawling out of the kitty litter and Postal took the lead. Never had a hope of catching him after that and the remainder of my race left me trying to fend off Clive's huge motor. I only kept second place due to Clive's mishaps under braking. Great racing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Monaco next which is one of my least favourite circuits so I don't expect to do so well there.
I confess that I had no time to do any preparation for this race, although I knew the track ( except for that last chicane!! which caught me out on the very first lap!!) and only selected the beefy Commodore as a car that I thought was my least favourite thus far and would be no great waste. Real Life is proving to be very time consuming lately and my GPL racing has suffered because of commitments so I am getting my sim racing fix here when I can.
As it turned out, I think I am beginning to understand the handling of the GTL motors and I was pleased with my pace in qually.
The race was great fun with the thundering Commodore against the screaming Mini of Tony, I don't think Tony knows how close he came to being steamrollered on a couple of occasions when my car started to lose directional control under braking
The contest between the brute force of my car and the nimble Mini was magic. I really had to attack those corners to keep the mini within range for a lunge down the straight and that ruddy last chicane proved a real headache as I tried to carry speed through there without bouncing over the kerbs or running wide onto the gravel.
It was the brakes that proved my undoing in this race. Am I right in thinking that the braking is something that the game "adjusts" if they get hot or badly worn?? Maybe it was just my heavy left foot or downshifting too early?
On another positive I managed to use more of my tyres in this race...I got to about 50% used which still means I am not pushing hard enough I guess.
Grats to Tony and Postal and I could send Mabel and Arnold over to see Erling and help with the tuning of that Nissan.......if he feels he can cope with them