Grats to whoever survived the race and took the flag.
Some very strange stuff in that race for me
First of all my keyboard ignored my instruction to post "messages", so I dipped out just before quali to sort that. When I returned I had no gear shift?!! every control wanted to be button B6, so sorted that ( dodgy/sticky microswitch on steering wheel paddles).
Qually was weird as I did not seem able to stop the car??? ( discovered in the first few laps of the race that I had zero brakes
) Well I suppose it makes you faster??
I was trailing Matt and Geoff by about 10 secs after a few early incidents dropped Dan and others back behind me. Dominick was showing as 14 secs behind and the Screen went to desktop, but sound kept running as I was on a straight section. Frantic clicking of mouse and keyboard and the track re appeared, but after 3-4 secs of desktop Dominick was now just 4 secs behind???!!
Up the hill and I came across Geoff facing the wrong way in just the wrong place
swerved past him and hit a straw bale that some careless farmer had left in the middle of the track...triple somersault and twist later I was doing a Geoff. No-one coming so swung the Merc around and set off again. Matt was by now about 20+ secs ahead, and I was somehow in 2nd??
Then Dominick vanished from behind to be replaced by Rog, I was able to slowly ease away from Rog...then he went into pits and Matt left the race... I was sitting in 1st place. That was not in the script that I read.
At the two major braking zones I was using all the gears to slow the car and basically hitting the bales 99% of the time just to get around the 2 hairpins, quite how the car was still driveable I have no idea. My race plan was to go to lap 16 and do a splash and dash for the last 7 laps and all was looking good. Geoffers and Rog had pitted and I had 77secs lead over Bob when I swung into the pit lane.
Rolled up to Arnold and up popped the pitboard.................but my keyboard refused to work and I could not enter or adjust anything
I might have to invest in a new wheel and wash the keyboard in a bucket of strong detergent!!!