Grats to the podium places.
Having used most of the proper cars, I was also being forced into a corner about car choice with far too many Minis with their front wheel drive
I would happily have swapped all of my Minis for a Boss Mustang drive, but Tony was in a mean mood and insisted that I squeeze into a buzz box!!
I have finally upgraded my overloaded XP box for a 4.2Ghz, 16Gb Ram 8Gb 1080 video card and Windows 10. Very happy with all of it except the last item!!!!
The graphics are awesome and everything in GTL runs very quickly. Previously GTL took at least 3 minutes to load, now it is almost instantaneous
Having invested in such hi-tech hardware I expected to be proportionately quicker on track, but there must be a setting in Win 10 needs adjusting because that did not work for some reason??
So, I had to actually do some practice laps with a Mini and opted for the 1275s. I tried the setup that I used at Oulton, but either I had forgotten how to drive it or, more likely, Windows 10 did not recognise the settings. Built a new setup that got more and more radical until I managed a 1:55 lap which felt quick, until Geoffers showed up on the server last night
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The race went much as I expected, with Erling running away out front, Eiffel following and Geoffers hurling his Mini after them. Misnomis was the only car out of position early on in his Escort 1600. Fulvio did a great job in holding him back for the first laps, but eventually the extra power got the Escort past and closing on my boot lid!!
I tried to make things as difficult as possible for Misnomis to pass by maxing out the corners, but I had no answer to his extra speed on the straights and he eventually cruised past. For a few laps I tried to smash his brake lights through the tight bits, but it was a losing battle.
With around 10 laps to go my HUD was telling me that I was all alone with Mis and Geoffers around 12 secs ahead and the next car behind was 25+ seconds back. Between myself and the next car behind HUD indicated that Ziu was there, but was a DNF...but he was not dropping down the order. I started watching my mirrors and began catching glimpses of a car that was clearly NOT 25 secs behind and keeping pace with me??
I figured that the server had dropped Ziu and actually he was still running. He was in a different class, so not a direct threat other than overall standings. I was not going to catch the cars in front unless they made a big mistake, so I decided to manage the gap and aim to finish first and not make any mistakes that would allow Ziu through.
Almost screwed that plan on the final laps, when I was watching Ziu in the mirror instead of my braking points and ran wide. That allowed Ziu to get much too close and I had to push hard on the last lap to maintain my place.
As I crossed the line I realised that I still had enough fuel for another 12 laps!! Talk about handicapping yourself???
Then Win 10 interrupted post race chat by freezing GTL and the PC completely??!! I had to switch off power and reboot which is not what I expected from a new PC. I am having the same issues in GPL and I suspect that it is linked to the G25 software that was reluctant to install and setup.
I have had a BSOD and a "Watchdog Violation" message, which indicates some sort of major conflict somewhere.
Anyone with any ideas or advice???
