First off, I had some issues I would like to hear if anyone else were having. The black tyre marks on the tarmac were fine during off- and on-line practice but as soon as we turn to qualifying and race, most of them disappeared - I had a patch at the start and finish of them, but the entire middle sections were missing. I've seen it occasionally in the past, but it appears to be more consistent lately - it happened on our two recent races at Goodwood too. The other issue is that my race replays are screwed up. That of the race itself jumps from the garage to roughly mid-race, missing the entire beginning. Hot lap replay makes GTL crash. Anyone else have this ?
The track; I've never liked it, but think I'm starting to hate it, especially its most notorious feature; that confounded Corkscrew. It's always hit or miss - or in my case very consistently miss..
The Car; with 'Vanishing Point' among my favorite car movies, it just had to be the Challenger.
Set my fastest times with in offline practice, but could almost surely have matched them with some of the other cars, if I had practiced more with them.
The race; had done some 1:46.2 laps and a single, 1:45.9 kamikaze lap offline, but sadly couldn't do them consistently, so 1:46.4 was the best I could manage in qual. Only good enough for 5th, but got a decent start, passing a car in front - only to be upstaged a T1 by two cars, but they collided and spun, so I retained 4th. Chased after Lobo first, and Postal later, when he rejoined after an off. He slowly edged away though, especially as I started to make smaller and bigger mistakes on my worn tyres. Gap to car behind kept increasing throughout the race, as long as I didn't make mistakes myself, so wasn't threatened from behind. Got my 4th upgraded to 3rd, courtesy of Clive's untimely exit.
Grats to Lobo & Postal; welcome to the new and new-old faces, commiserations to Clive, who seemed to have the race in his bag, and to Bill; very sorry to hear that your
PC troubles continues
Edit: Clive, you should probably have stayed in the race, despite not running towards the end - I'm pretty sure you would have scored some points that way.
Cheers,
Erling