Yeah, you landed 15th. There were a lot of folks bundled in the 36.9 range, as some predicted.
I'm content with the 17th place; even my best sectors wouldn't have got me in. My submitted lap had a rocket exit out of the right-hander before S1, and no matter what I tried the following night, I couldn't match it. I could see where I could make up time, but I don't have the skills to do it with the pad.
Maybe I'll need to spend some serious time trying to optimize the CSL Elite. I haven't found settings I'm completely comfortable with, but it'd be worth it.
I struggled with being consistent too, it's hard on the pad. My best sectors put me at 1:36.3
I can't count how many times I restarted after the first chicane because my I KNEW I could split 32.3 at the first checkpoint, so anything less than 32.5 felt like a waste.
Eventually around 11:00 last night I had to start settling for mediocre sector 1's because I couldn't get my S bends consistent in S2, then the odd time I did have a lightning quick lap I would **** up the bus stop.
I'm naturally better at Maggiorre to begin with, and it doesn't have some stupid bus stop at the end to kill all my good laps - so hopefully I can set a good time, but I'm away all weekend so we'll see.
Part of me is actually a little relieved I didn't make it in this round - if I had made top 20 I would've felt a lot of pressure to practice really really hard for round 2 as top 16 isn't very far off top 20. I'm thinking with no wheel/rig setup, and the disadvantage I have with a full time job, wife, kid & hockey and having only played GT for 4 months I'd be totally fine making top 40 and not top 16.
Either way, I hope to see a lot more of these types of competitions as I feel like I'm seeing a lot more Canadians coming out with some very good times - and committing to GT:Sport - the more competition we have the better. I've already made significant improvements since these entries have started as not 3 weeks ago I had TCS on 2 for the GR.3 cars, and I had CSA on weak - both of those have been turned off now.
Also,
@SlipZtrEm will you be going to the live event? I saw the tickets, I can't help but feel like the VIP ticket isn't very VIP - unless the seating is drastically better, I'll probably just get the regular ticket. The meet and greet is funny.
