Grats to JPS for his first podium and to Jose for his first win.
Had a nightmare in P1 and Q2, three freezes. Was lucky to be able to come back every time, despite having to restart PC twice and server being nearly full. Must be some software causing this, after installing P&Gv2 I get freezes at every event, mostly one and 3 last night. Same on old and new rig, so... Hope it's not going to get worse. I remember having the last freeze when Busi joined at the end of Q2 and saw Carl Hart was also thrown out. Several GT1s started at the back which tells of the trouble.
Might be nice to import r2p rule where GT1s can overtake GT2s in the pace lap to avoid 1st lap confusion. It
was present last night, can't complain though, as I gained lost of places 'cause of it.
Race was difficult but I'll repeat, rainy race is an opportunity to me as I can count on some aliens making a mistake. That's not meant to include discos - bad luck Freq - even if I did gain a podium this way.
I started with hard wets and it was ok as long as I was careful and maintained a resonable pace, not fighting the track and risking an off. I did get one, consequence of a momentary lapse of reason, err, concentration.
Had a kiss with the wall before the high chicane but car seemed ok, so I only lost 6 seconds.
Pitted 25 minutes to go and found a GT2 car in my stall, how much of a chance was it.
Had to make another lap, was good to have a big gap behind. Took soft wets and thought to increase my pace due to more grip and less fuel. Boy, what a shot in the dark that was. Fronts were ok, but rears started to overheat, and were having less and less grip, rear end was comming around at every bend. Had to put brake ballance to front a lot and downshift before turning, direct opposite from before where I used downhift as a help to turn in.
Gap to 5th Lazlow was comming down until I settled a bit and cooled my rears under 140'C. Then Freq discoed and I was 3rd, undeserved I must say, but my fear increased greatly after remembering Picnic's talking about having a burst of tyre at Anderstorp due to overheating. Decreased my pace even more, keeping torque down - I was going through the high chicane in 4th gear now, while I did it in 2nd in the first stint.
Ended well for me, totaly undeserved from my pace. Rain is an opportunity, see?
TT
P.S. Apart from having freezes (which were the same on my old rig as on the new one) I'm very satisfied with my new PC. I put resolution on monitors max (1440x900), AA on 8 I think (or was it auto?
), V-sync on, everything on max except shadows which I left on medium, having read about it influencing discos - is this a guess or a fact? I never got FPS under 60, not even on start, with the rain and dark and lights on. Great stuff, I might say.
