I ran my malware and AV scans after the debacle and it found a bot hiding in the Lut files I had installed in last few days, so recommend you guys do same if you installed any. (Also installed pro tyres latest version so could have been part of that).
I've just checked all my LUT files (2x AC installs and the archive which goes back about 5 years now) nothing here - If you haven't already done so it might be worth a full system scan with Malwarebytes or something equally competent, either a dodgy file was temporarily in the download (unlikely as it's on google drive, the individual files are small and so are scanned server side before download), or something else you have may have infected that file.
Or you're running McAffee or course and there was nothing wrong with that file to start with
Another thing I thought I'd mention as I seem to remember one of your crashes being due to a dead battery in the remotes - I only put batteries in my remotes when I'm actually going to use them. If they aren't on to start with then you won't get any warnings splashing up and destroying what you're doing.
On to my race:
I don't know where that lap came from in qually - when I was doing my performance check of the Alfa Vs the Escort last weekend I knew the Escort had the better potential lap (it was showing a very high 2:19 but average laps were around 2:20.8 with a best of 20.5 Vs the far more consistent and easier 2:20.3 I got out of the Alfa) but to knock a further half a second out of that time blew me away
Darren was kind enough to leave me plenty of racing room at the start
- this removed my biggest worry of getting caught in second place or having to fight for the lead on cold tires. My setup here required pressures that were so low (to handle the heat/pressure generated through excess drifting
) that it takes 3 laps to get up to pressure, and car is even more Evil than normal during this phase - as can be clearly seen in lap 1 on the replay!
After I got up to pressure I was able to steadily pull away from Adam, and then crawl slightly slower away from Darren once he gained 2nd.
I chose to pit just over half race distance and found myself exiting just behind Adam's Alfa - I caught him again just as my tires were coming upto pressure so pounced on the first slight mistake he made, Adam was kind enough to yield the next corner to me (he knew I had fresh rubber and a bucket of pace at that point) rather than risking contact or a mistake.
From then on it was a very enjoyable slide to the flag, with the bonus of 2 high 19's thrown in once on lower fuel near the end
I'm not aware of any proper incidents from what I've seen in the replay (Not done the pitstops yet, I'm waiting on the code for 3DsimEd3 to create a pitlane cam and save myself some hassle) but don't expect you lot to be naughty anyway.
If there's interest I can upload my Alfa setup from Luccaring - It'll obviously need tweaking for Sugo and Goodwood but might help anyone struggling for pace in the Alfa. Conversely it might make you worse as well
