That was great fun early on and very boring towards the end, but a good return to GTR2 for me, since the last time I drove was Interlagos!
Practised offline from 7pm to get the gear ratios and general feel right on the Saleen, and made a dry setup. Then jumped into the server and tweaked it to see what tyres I could run in the wet. It seemed quite difficult to chose, as often the hard wets were too hot and other times too cold. It seemed a real lottery.
Spent all of Q2 running full fuel and seeing how hard wets coped over a few laps and was pleasently surprised to be getting faster and faster as the track dried. So then stuck soft wets on and managed to get pole.
The warm up had me convinced to run hard wets, as my rears were running in the 90's. As the race started, the conditions were the same, so hards all round. Only they were staying cold! For the first 10 laps or so they were very under temp, but the grip wasn't so bad so I stayed out. Then the rain eased and suddenly they were running hot!
Then we realised the cock up on the distance over TS and prepared for 60 laps instead....so I wondered how far I could go on these wets....they were destroyed by about lap 35 and my team even tried to auto-pit me, turning on the blue pit icon! Finally pitted on lap 41 and took some fuel and new hard wets and then cruised to the finish. Lost concentration a lot at the end and hit the wall 2 or 3 times losing 12 seconds or so.....but no big deal.
Congrats to the podium peeps. Nice recovery from Baracus and a great return from pablo....ain't seen you around in ages
