Mixed fortune in yesterday's race at High Plains Raceway with the 911 RSR.
It didn't start well due to Lorenzo's malfunctioning peripheral (Don't worry Lorenzo, this is the sort of online race incident that happens from time to time). This unfortunately finished his race and almost mine. Happy with the prompt recovery and, although I landed last, it gave me a great opportunity to climb my way back to fight for 3rd place... I think I had a good chance of unsettling Fabri (the hesitation at the turn 8 hairpin was possibly proof of it) but, instead, the impatience on the attack (lesson for the future) delivered the inevitable punishment by the unforgiving 911 RSR... That error settled the race in 5th position behind Mark J (without his usual pace due to lack of practice on this track!). I think I had a chance to catch him up, was reducing the gap from 6secs to 4secs and even down to 2.7secs at one point... Then, due to tiredness or lack of concentration in general, I made a few smaller mistakes that saw Mark's gap growing again and I settled to wait for a potential mistake on his side to recover the 4th position... And goddess fortune delivered (for me, not for Mark
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Congratulation to Maxime for a great race to 2nd although, as he says, the uncacheable Tim makes it very difficult for us, mere mortals, to even conceive getting close to 1st position (I suggest 5 tons ballast should be added to his 911 car... although even with this he would find a way of drifting the car to win the race!!). Congrats to the podium and looking forward to next week's race at Thomson Road (I need to learn this track!).
Enjoy!
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