Well that was fun.
I had done some practice on my faster system, and the frame rate was 70-80 ish
so was not happy when I had to do this race on my ancient core2Duo box, which was showing 42 FPS in the pits
The car had been handling really well on the faster tyres but I decided to try the Vintage as they seemed to wear
a lot slower, 1st practice lap last night had been all over the place and had to neuter the setup for max rear grip
to get round the track at all. Wasted ages in the pits fiddling with my arrow keys that were not mapped as expected
so just took the defaults and filled up with fuel and changed all tyres using the same vintage ones, Even though they were all green and only 1/4 worn
the rear was becoming out of control in the fast sections, so swapping the tyres was probably a good idea anyway.
Had one major spin and some damage while distracted reading Roger's cat's messages
but car was still handling
fine so off we went. Start went well, could have passed Clive off the line, but there was not enough room for a safe pass, so sat behind
and caught and lost him in the various sections as I was faster in some places and he in others
it looked like his setup was more front grippy than my safe full hard front, full soft rear setup, and he kindly demonstrated
this by getting sideways into a wall of the little town
I guess he took damage as he never got close after that.
managed to keep MC and Geoff far enough behind, and was pulling away a bit up to the finish.
I was faster in the Aston, but less likely to finish so went with the nice little Ferri, don't think I could have matched Erling's
pace anyway, so 2nd was as good as I was likely to get so am well pleased with the result.