Grats to Erling on a commanding drive and some great lap times and to all those who finished.
Something different for me, never really done oval racing before and I had been practising right hand corners all last month!!.
I had downloaded the track before the weekend, but other than fire it up to make sure it worked and run one sighting lap in the Aston, I had done no practice...I figured there were not any corner sequences to learn
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When I joined the server last night I simply pumped the tyres up to max pressure, stiffened the springs and dropped the dampers a notch. Set the final drive to the lowest number , 30 laps of fuel and rolled out for some practice laps.
1st lap out was a little tentative on cold tyres and watching for faster cars, but second lap just stood on the gas and let the car go. At T1 on lap 2 I lifted about 5% and quickly realised that I need not have bothered, so lap 3 I screwed the accelerator to the floor for the whole lap. "Something wrong here" I thought. There are cars 5 seconds a lap faster than me and I am not lifting anywhere. I tried dropping the final drive a notch to push the top end revs closer to maximum but the car was slower.
I quit and checked the game settings ( don't know why??) rejoined and tried again. Still 5 secs slower!! It was not until Jose joined in the only other Aston and we found ourselves circulating together, that I realised the Aston was probably NOT the best car for this race lol!
I needed to get a race long tow from one of those D type fellas if I was going to score points here.
The start went well but I was having to lift in the corners to avoid rear ending a gaggle of Mercs and D types ahead. But at least I was getting the slipstream benefit
After a few laps Eifel came blasting past in his D type after some early excursion and I hooked up behind him hoping to get towed all the way to the front. But basically I got scared by some of the moves ahead and dropped back just a fraction too far, losing the draught.
I think that after lap 2 the only time I lifted my right foot was to avoid Hayman?? and Flash?? who had tangled on the exit of T2. By the end of the race I almost had cramp in my right foot!! I had to back off in the last few laps to save fuel, but by then the race was over.
Maybe I should have downloaded all of the tracks for this series and done some planning re cars and circuits.
