For all those that spun at St Mary's, here is my real life version, luckily I escaped, but I still can't see what I did wrong.
https://youtu.be/e9bKbsaTVPEYou jammie bugger! Soo close to removing your nose!
What's that in? Looks vaguely Elise'y?
If so my moneys on not enough throttle over the bump given it's MR, therefore not as much weight over the rear as you had possibly on previous laps.
Big congrats to Max on his pole lap, my car was suffering as the server was lower grip in practice and qually compared to my server laps before the race.
Luckily the race itself seemed to be hotter/grippier so my car came back to me (0.3 secs faster in the race
), as I got lucky on the start and Matteo then hassled Max for a bit it was relatively easy to pull a small gap and manage it. I actually think the car felt nicer in R1 than it had when practicing so I had a ball
Race 2 went well, I had masses of fun battling up through the pack - with Max generally snapping at my heels and harrasing me.
I had to laugh on lap 2 or 3 when I caught Matteo and Fabri as they both got caught out by the driver in front having some sort of moment in T1 (I think I tapped Matteo as a result - sorry), we then all split like the parting of the red sea around who-ever the other car was.
Once clear I looked right to see Matteo - as expected - and then the blue car of Alexy on his right through the windows. Bugger! I knew 2 wide through Fordwater was possible, but 3 would be daft.
Being daft I decided to play chicken and see if any one else lifted first.... They didn't, so I ended up grass tracking around the outside of the corner, perfectly positioned to see Matteo also run out of track ( I guess I had been on the bit he needed to take the corner without lifting ) and go for a massive drift just in front of me
I got clear of both after the incident at the Chicane, which I hadn't seen clearly at the time - and found myself in an epic battle with Max until I eventually caught back up with Fabri. My first passing attempt failed and put me back in Max's hands, I got lucky on my second as Fabri made a mistake just as I caught him - which pretty much forced him to let me through..
After that I reckoned I had about an 80% chance of catching Kai, as I was gaining at a rate of about a second a lap - passing would of course be another issue.... Then he braked too hard while turning into the Chicane and ended up nose first in the wall, giving me a free kick into 1st.
Those races were an absolute hoot in these cars, a shame that Matteo seemed down on his normal pace last night - although the weird bump into the Chicane didn't help our traditional battle.
Matteo - I'd much rather you used the reporting function than just quit. It does work when people use it. UKGPL is living proof of how effective the system can be when implemented and used properly. To be fair the incident in the chicane is weird rather than dodgy anyway, the only real big problem is that Alexy effectively performed a bump and run when he didn't then wait for you to recover..
