Sorry to hear about your friend Erling.
As for Geoffers, I can thoroughly recommend retirement. But, if you think that it will allow you more time to "play" GTL......think again. These days I wonder how I actually found time to go to work!!! and I certainly cannot get in more simracing practice
The races last night were great fun, but Ziu was simply a distant memory after around 30 seconds!! In the past I have tried to master the Porker and failed miserably, but from somewhere I conjured up a setup that ( sort of) worked. Well when I say "worked", it did not try to kill me at the first corner and was OK provided that I was gentle on the gas out of corners.
I deliberately chose the Porsche for this track as it does not have too many corners
hoping to use up the drives and save cars I am more confident about driving for other circuits.
But in both races that Porsche was simply waiting for me to get confident, and then when I pushed just a little too hard on the gas it instantly stuffed me into the nearest barrier.
I lost places in both races when the Porsche curse took me out. In race 1 (we will ignore the start to preserve some dignity), I was fending off Bob in his Nissan for many laps before a tank slapper out of Ascari got rapidly uncontrollable and I said "Hello" to Mr Armco.
Race 2 I was enjoying chasing down Fulvio in his Commodore and the Porsche got me again
Still very enjoyable and some great racing.