Fabulous result indeed, Iestyn!
I can't hardly believe that I survived let alone cop a P4 finish. And if I'd avoided being lapped, it could have been P3 as Uli had a serious off at one point and then ran his petrol tank dry on the last lap.
Grats to Robert on a fine win! Great job. Fresh underwear already being couriered over to you, Bobbie.
A fine run, too, for Uli who, apparently, is very rusty with the GP67's. Pity about that fuel situation. Another couple of litres would have brought you home.
Great job by Andreas to nail down P3. Well done.
A strange, strange race for me. Nothing quite like it in my experience. When I first joined the server, I found misty skies.
Ah! The new 'wet patch' from Lee200. I left the server and un-ticked the box. (Or at least I think I did; to tell the truth, I don't remember if it was invoked or not) I re-joined the server to find...misty skies. Hmmm... I left the server again, went to the file folder holding the patch and deleted it. Joining the server yet again, no change. I knew something was terribly wrong as qualifying times for the front end of the grid indicated no lack of adhesion. Was I the only one with limited traction? I cut a lap late in the session and managed a 48. This was against a 33 I'd managed earlier in the day. Going to be a long, long race...
But it was cool. I enjoyed the slippey conditions and just plugged along in the low 3:50's bracket. There were many, many fallers early on that promoted me up the leaderboard at a great old rate. To come home P4 has to be regarded as a complete fluke.
The only real bit of drama came when Robert came up to lap me. I was ready to cede the right side of the roadway to him when suddenly and to my horror, he blasted by on my left going what seemed to be about 400 mph.
Sorry for that, RF. I shuffled over to the right and had Izzy rip by a moment later. PHEW! That could have been trés, trés mal. I've already got my fresh undies on.
After the race, I attempted to reproduce the conditions that had me stuck in the 'wet' mode. Nope. The patch functioned properly when invoked and not when the tick box was left empty.
C'est la guerre.