Was struggling to keep the tyres alive during qually, so my best lap was messed up as I couldn't make the last hairpin on two dark red left tyres
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Had a good start and was able to challenge nfsw, but the grunt of the Nissan helped him stay ahead.
Spent the first quarter of the race chasing Georg. Same cars, so hard to benefit in areas. I think I overtook him in the end due to a small mistake.
Was surpsised to see the gap forward to be as little as it was. They drove off so fast in the first few laps, I thought it was going to be embarassing finishing over a minute behind at that rate.
Got close to nfsw, which was exactly the place I didn't want to be. His ping was fluctuating and very high most of the race. Jittering and rubber banding all the time. Desperatly wanted to get past, as it was getting on my nerves.
When I finally got past, I was slowly gaining on Maikel. With hindsight, because he had new airbrakes mounted to his car. But because we were battling, nfsw gained on us again. And my nerves wouldn't take all that lagging, so I decided to pit 1 lap earlier
. Georg followed behind me in the pits, and he got out closer than when he came in, but I think he rejoined the track and ended up in a battle for position, which gave me some breathing space.
When Maikel did his stop, I was looking to see where he rejoined, but I didn't see him. So I thought my stop must have really sucked. But it looks like he is wearing his crew out
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Few laps later nfsw had his stop and came out of the pits 5 seconds ahead. My tyres were already up to temp and I was able to close the gap. At that point his ping was fine, <50ms,s o I thought, this should be fun. And we had some fun laps, power vs handling...until a few laps later when his ping went back to 200+. It was so hard to try and overtake and battle with the rubber banding. At one point I was behind him on the straight, and his car slowed down like he lifted off, only to rocket forward again and to be 50m infront of me.
With 2 laps to go, the same thing happened, car slowed down on the straight, I pull to the right to overtake...and his car just disappeared. When it reappeared, I saw that it crashed. I have no idea how it looked like from his end, but I saved my replay, and it looked like a large lag spike.
Had some fun battles, just a bit of mixed feelings about the end.
EDIT: Thanks for the replay Maikel and great result MJ. When you were behind me you were hard to get rid off
. Shame you spun it, as I think you would have been able to stay with us.
