Ugh, no more public rooms for me. I cannot deal with the random horrible drivers. I would rather have fewer good drivers than more drivers that can't hold a line or not wreck half the race.
My first time in the 450PP room in a long time, and wow!
I join in the
Clone Killers' RX-8. I wanted to practice with a FR. The course was Tsukuba.
First off, let me just say, that car was easy to drive, and wasn't too bad. I also thought the first two hairpins went very cleanly. Mind you, I quickly got to fourth by the first hairpin and second by the second, so I might've missed a bunch of mess behind me.
I held second for the rest of the lap behind Brewbie's Civic. Dabney's 22B was chomping at my heels.
Second lap, after the first hairpin, someone pits me. I'm basically out of the race at this point, and I was doing very well. I thought someone said it was Dabney.
After the race, Nabsport starts asking me, "Did I hit you? Someone said I pushed you into the pits."
At that point, I probably should've clued in that he wasn't very bright. I said that I thought it was Dabney getting back at me for lapping his Volvo. Nabsport went on to say that he was glad that Dabney had left. He didn't like you.
That would be strike two against his... intellect.
We start the next race at Grand Valley East - Reverse. The whole time, Nabsport is complaining that 8 laps is too long. That he falls asleep after 5. He says he likes "sprints". 8 laps at GVE-R is a sprint. No one has to pit.
I can't help but openly laugh at him. He comes across as someone... without the burden of age.
The race starts great for me. I get back up to second place very quickly. But, then I'm bumped out of the hairpin and fall to fourth.
I did fall a few more spots due to some clean driving by some Rufs. I forget who was in them. I then started to push the FR too much. I figured I was drying my FF line. I smashed a wall. Or three.
Through the conversation, it seems that Nabsport couldn't see the whole field. He was blaming it on AOK, and the fact that he has an Italian flag. Clearly, since he has greater geography, he must have greater latency. Nevermind the fact that everyone else sees the room just fine.
Nabsport bumped me out of the hairpin. Because he didn't know I was there. I actually bumped him back when I got the chance, but he didn't see me there and didn't feel the bump.
Nabsport left and rejoined a few times, but never saw the whole field.
The next race was at Suzuka. I was beat through the esses. I tried to push the car a bit, just to see what a FR could do, since I was in the back.
The next race was at Autumn Ring. There was quite a bit of pushing in the first two corners on that circuit. But I missed a turn and smashed a wall. I'm sorry, but I don't remember my way around that circuit.
The annoying part of that race was that someone joined with a hot mic. He was speaking Spanish, I think. But not to us. To people coming and going from his room. That was very very annoying.
My apologizes Dabneyd for the confusing in thinking it was you who pitted me. I'm guess Nabsport couldn't see everyone in the room at Tsukuba either.
the 71 is sweet. some very good race last night, when i became the host i went from 4 to 8 laps and it was better, it was more strategic, on sukuza it was 4 again becouse its a long track
