Much annoyance, but I have to be in London start of next week, So I will miss this  

Had two separate updates of W10 before joining and I assume a third one downloading (executed after I left the game and shut down the computer)
during the race.  Looks like Microsoft has nothing under control anymore either or the first two updates could not be installed  

A big freezer of about a minute in lap three let me loose all rhythm. Tried to go on but was nearly a lap down, so I quit.

My race was ruined by a Norton popup telling me I hadn't installed the extensions to Microsoft's Edge browser. There is a good reason for that. I seldom use it!

Thought I could ignore it but it affected my frame rate making the car undriveable so I had to pull over and cancel the pop up. Todays job is to find a way to disable the bloody pop ups.

Tony, do you not put Norton into silent mode when racing?

I also use Iobit Gamebooster which shuts down any non essential stuff running in the background.


Both happy & disappointed with the Suzuka race, happy with the pace I got out of the Mercedes but disappointed that I messed up a race I could possibly have won. For once I made a decent start & held off Daz & Erling into T1, gradually eased away from Daz in the opening laps but was a bit worried that if he could keep up that pace throughout the race without pitting then I had no chance of making up the lost time in the pits. However after the opening laps the gap started to grow at a faster pace, so I assumed that Daz was having to slow down to save fuel.

I pitted on lap 15 with over 20s lead for fuel only, when I rejoined Daz was over 20s ahead, it seemed like it could be close at the end. 2 laps later the gap was 16s & I was lapping around 3-4s faster so it looked like I would catch Daz well before the end. But no, I ran a little wide at 130R got up on the kerb & the car got away from me & spun across the road into the barriers. I didn't lose too much time rejoining but the left front tyre was flat so I had to make a 2nd pitstop for tyres. Just got out of the pits ahead of Fulvio & Erling still in 2nd place but with zero chance of catching Daz. Still had to push on to open the gap to Fulvio & Erling, although with new tyres I was comfortably faster, even had time to roll the car when I took too much kerb at Degner 2, fortunately coming to rest facing the right way & only losing 5-6s!  

Congrats to Daz on the win & to Erling in 3rd.  

Don't forget that we have a new series starting next Monday (02 Oct).

Tough race; the Holden wasn't the obvious choice, but given I had a surplus of drives in it, I figured it best to use one of them.  Surprised to be only 0.7 sec behind Daz in qual - maybe he hadn't practiced, or maybe the Holden wasn't half bad on Suzuka after all.

Good start; not good enough to jump the aliens, but enough to keep the chasing pack at bay.  Couldn't shake Clive over the first 5-6 laps.  Not far behind him, I noticed Fulvio lurking, no doubt waiting for our tyres to go off. No question he would be a problem later.   Clive started dropping back, and as expected was replaced by Fulvio.  I did my stop at L13, being passed by Clive who went longer, and I exited some 5 secs behind Fulvio, who had apparently already stopped, and not changed tyres.  On fresh rubber I could hunt him down, eventually getting past at the end of the pit straight, fairly late in the race. He had a massive advantage in the curves, and slipped past again when I left the door too open in the S'es.  Race coming to an end, so put in an all-out attack. At the end of the penultimate lap, he lost the rear in the chicane and spun.  Couldn't avoid hitting him.  Waited, but as the spin wasn't my fault, I didn't let him back in front.  Made very sure to keep all doors tightly closed on the final lap, thus hanging on to 3rd.

Grats to Daz & Geoffers & thanks to Fulvio for some exiting laps