Great to see such a lot of interest in the Can Ams, who would have guessed
I missed race 1 because of wheel calibration issues but watched over Singion's shoulder via his excellent Live Stream. Thanks for that Singion it is about time that GPL had something like this. The nearest we had before was GPLtv which was a line of coloured dots on a simple map of the circuit
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Race 2
First of all an apology and explanation/excuse for the start line chaos. I did not save a replay, but I suspect that it was my car that started the crashfest
When the flag dropped my frame rate simply plummeted to around 25fps and my car ( along with those around me ) moved in a series of jerky spasms. By the time
my screen returned to a reasonable frame rate I was spinning onto the grass and then got hit again.
Eventually I regained the tarmac, and was travelling in the right direction. TBH I did consider waiting, and if it had been a League race I would have, but I figured
a) if I waited then my car parked at T1 would be yet another problem
and
b) It was a fun race and no League positions were at stake.
I had no idea how many cars were ahead or behind me, or what position I was in, for the first laps as my pribluda had a brain meltdown and only reagianed sanity somewhere around Lap 3?
On cold tyres I find these crazy beasts a real handful and I was very close to exiting the track at high speed on a couple of occasions. Gradually I found my rhythm and discovered that I was in 4th? place. I passed a Porsche down the long straight with the greater top speed of the Shadow and began to close in on the leaders.
Then Jonny vanished and after a few laps I was leading, without passing anyone
. Carlos was quick in his Mclaren and the Porsche of lalb(?) was fast through the corners and they closed up. The Shadow has great power, but useless in the corners and I was defending for many laps, until the chasing cars made small mistakes and left me for a quiet last few laps to the flag.
Thanks to all who joined in and we hope to see you again.
