Great race from my side, didn't expect third place with such a grid. Second time at Bathurst after the GT3 race. Didn't know this track before entering simracing, but really love this track.
Qualified P5, but didn't had the best start, but was lucky in T1, the 3 cars in front of me pushed wide (Leonardo, Toni and someone else) and i could easily overtake them due to a better exit, so moved towards P4.
First uphill section with cold tires, so i couldn't go full throttle.
I was expecting a challenge from Leonardo but he retired early so had Pete & Birger chasing me hard
Leonardo was watching for a move i think, in T5/6. He went to soon on the throttle and banged against the wall, facing the wrong direction and needed to wait until all cars where passed.
For the first 10min i followed Pete, every lap i gave Pete 1.5sec in the uphill section but closed that down in the downhill and on the straights. Slightly Toni was catching us but when he was at 1sec, i made a move on Pete. Using the speed of the Mustang i placed myself next to Pete on Mountain Straight going in to Griffins bent and made the overtake (i think Pete backed off
).
Afterwards i pulled slightly away from Pete and Toni on the straights. And surprisingly i remained my gap of 7sec towards P2 (Geoff), until i saw him at the exit of Hell Corner on the opposite side from the racing line
. Gap was 3sec but couldn't close it down.
Congrats Massimo and Geoff!!!
Fun but tough race in the Mustang. Great on the bottom half of the track but really sketchy over the mountain, needed to be very restrained otherwise it will bite you.
Indeed, but from Suzuka onwards i'm mastering the car. Even at the second crest of Conrad Straight i had trouble to remain straight
.
Nice to see some bigger grids to, hope this continues for whatever comes next.
Indeed, happy to see 10+ grids. if this remains it will also attract more people towards SROUK (from the league post from 3sector forum)
My little brother is also again more intrested in simracing "F1 game". But i forced him to download RRE
, raced together in some Rookie servers, but for now he is still racing with a controller. So he is now looking for a race wheel and peddals. After that i hope he will join us.