Awesome racing with PR for almost the entire race. The gap stayed from 0.5 to 1.5s from about lap 4 until the end and you never made a major mistake - and in the wet conditions making braking difficult to judge when following another car I wasn't going to make any silly late dive. Very enjoyable, and well deserved to finish ahead of me. Congrats to Rui too, I think PR and I fighting made it easier but good win.
These cars are definitely more touchy than GTL cars, I'm really slow at settling into races and getting a rhythm but in GTL a heavy right foot is dealt with by a little opposite lock, but once the back started to go slightly I had to get right off the gas and wait for the car to settle. After slightly outdragging Rui from the lights I lost the lead exiting T1 as I had to lift, dropped to 3rd, then a ragged couple of laps saw me lose touch with PR and Rui and then get passed by TT and Jos, then get them both back at the Old Hairpin. Was a relief (but disappointing) when TT had to quit, as I finally settled down and stopped over-driving. Closed up to the top 2 pretty quickly and then hit the wall of spray and a severe lack of errors from the top 2.
Apart from the flakey starting laps only disappointment was to mess up all my best laps, was up at the second split 0.33 one lap and 0.4 another but both times messed up the penultimate hairpin, annoyed to miss out on a sub 2:00.0 which was possibly on. Race winning pace but not race winning driving.
Sorry to hear there were so many internet/game issues and race ending crashes, and bad luck with the controller issue Paul, you can beat us next time out.
