Had no idea what to write about before thoroughly checking the replay. More to follow. Admins do read this please. Very peculiar problem, I have no idea what happened.
Quali went very well... position wise, had no clean lap or traffic free one but was happy with grid spot albeit a bit disappointed knowing the potential (am still rusty so it felt good to be at relative front of the grid
).
Fell asleep at the start, then got a traditional nudge on lap one so I fell back to P12 or something, climbed back to 10th, then it all went
very bisare @ 2047 s of the replay, when I fell back from 12th to 21st (in an instant
, was still 12th). My position changed later on without making any passes at all - as in on clean track position changed. In reality still running 12th the whole time all the way to the pits. Lap 17 states I did a 3:41.698 lap time. Weird.
Raced on with no idea what's going on but had a hunch (pits came and went) I'm in 10 th or so. Which I was. Server thought otherwise so I was in constant danger of being blackflagged while actually racing for position (when I made the below passes).
Made "unlapping myself" (or so the game thought) passes on nsfast (3230s of the replay for 9th) and Craske at 4073s for 8th.
Later on Freq caught me, I let him by, then he immediately made a kack @T1 (his last lap I believe, for a moment I thought race is over, lol) so I unlapped myself and finished on same lap. For real, server probably considered I went from +1 to +2 and then back to +1 lap down.
I love Silverstone. Apart for the nudge (which was a no biggie, racing accident, I was a bit slow on apex to begin with so no wonder it happened) problem and 6 positions loss on the first lap I had a great race, lots of action not to mention plenty of additional food for thoughts whilst racing.
Was a bit frustrating following 6 cars knowing and seeing how much better race pace I had (was aiming for 6th or so
) and was really enjoying throwing GT around through last sector. Loved it even, made 3 passes for position in that left hander that comes after right hander under the bridge.
It was a good challenge, my last race was on the 9th of March 2008. Tarzan happy. Thanks for racing guys and congrats to winners, was a blast.