Wait so when I got past you that would have been for the lead?... Crazy. At that point I thought you were close to last (which is why I was not fussed about pitting as soon as I passed with still fresh tyres), Greasy was off into the distance and I was just going to go for a safety pit to cover off mixi for second.
My race started out well enough, though I was a little slow into the first turn. See I have to go through a start procedure (to setup my wheel mainly). As soon as the car is on track I have to hold two buttons on the wheel, wait for flashes on an LED, then hold them down again and wait again. Then I have to cycle though views to get back to the view I use. I was still cycling views going into the first turn and I braked early for fear of breaking too late. I think I may have caused some moments behind, not sure.
But then all was going to plan. Vendalism left me alone then droped right down the order, I thought he got into an accident. By lap 8 or so I had something like a 25 second lead to Greasy with tyres in the 6s, another 4 laps to make my 3 stop strategy was no problem, this race was in the bag.
By lap 11 I was 6 seconds a lap off the pace and getting much slower, on lap 12 I knew at this rate I was going to emerge from the pits well behind Greasy who pitted before me and was getting a massive undercut. I thought I was being a pussy on my 2 out of 10 rear tyres and figured I should just go flat out in the high speed stuff as the downforce would just stick it. One four wheel slide across the tack later and a trip to the barrier saw me limping back to the pits with cars streaming past me. When I did get back to the pits I made a fueling mistake meaning I would be slow in the next stint also. From this point on the race is a bit of a blur. I know I was angry about how I through my race away when I pitted again to get softs and set some crazy fast laps after that. But then I started to come up to lapped traffic and kept getting into trouble.
I think I hit everyone at some stage apart from Greasy and Vendalism. One was totally my fault.. Kind of. Near the end of the race fullgas was in front entering turn 1. I braked early enough to chose to go either side of him but then his car lagged jumping out at me for a second. I just kind of froze when it happened and headed straight for him smacking him in the back.
And there was another driver.. I can't remember who but again in turn 1 we touched. I closed up and was going to stay behind but then he hung out wide and I thought he was waiting for me so I ducked under and we hit wheel to wheel on the apex. Just one of those things.
And I remember one lap I made what I thought was a brilliant if cheeky pass at rivage, slipped up the inside when the car in front drifted wide but then he came back down and hit me..I thought I was lapping him and if so (my timing was screwed up, maybe I it was for position?..) he really should have just relented.
Another pass on a lapped car around near turn 16 on that really fast section almost ended in total disaster. I am not sure if I confused him or if he really was trying to squeeze me off the track, but really if you are being lapped, pick a side and don't fight it. We bumped wheels and I had two wheels on the grass at top speed.
Anyway it was still fun. Strategy pays in this series, that is a nice change. Though passing is hard. If you are on softs with max downforce and you come up on someone running less downforce and RH its almost impossible. You fly at them in the braking zones like bullets as if to ram them. If you back off trying to be safe you can lose large chunks of time.
No ...when you passed me I was till in front of you according to info on my screen.(I think)
In relation to setting the steering angle on your wheel.From what I understand and do, you only have to set it one time after the game is initially turned on not every time you enter a circuit/race ?
Vendal
