You can say your Peter, say your Allan. Don't put me up on your bedroom wall. Caaaaall meeeeee King of the Mountain!!
Erm, ok, so last night, first race of the week at Bathurst I went in with the car that always makes me feel like I need a shower or disinfecting after driving it, the Holden Mustang. I was pretty surprised to start P6/16, it was a pretty ordinary time I'd set, but about as good as *I* could manage. Mixed grid of DR/C and D. After a realy crappy race where I ended up in the sand at Sulman Park whilst trying to avoid a ghosted Cayman stopped in the middle of the track that had just decided to unghost. Things were further crappy when on the last lap I was sucked into the back end of a Trophy on the last lap braking for The Chase. I pulled over off the track to wait for them to regain position, but my collision netted me a 4s penalty. The upshot being a P15 finish, a loss of 8SR and 1k DR

. Wasn't going to post a report, but its a good reference point for the next half of this post

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Tonight I went in with
@Sven Jurgens favourite car, the GT-R

. Now, when I change cars, the aim isn't necessarily to set a steller time, it's more about trying to set a better qualifying time that I did with the car I used before. It just doesn't sit well with me using the qualifying time set by another car unless I can at least set an optimum lap that matches or beats it.
So, I managed to beat my Mustang time. For those who complain about a sea of Megans, check this out:
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Just the one Megan

. Anywho.... The grid sets up, we get rolling, the count down starts, then auto drive to disengages. Now what's the technical expression? Oh yes, "packing darkies", yes I believe that's the expression to describe the wave of panic washing over me at that instant

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I survived the dash for crash at Hell Corner. Exiting Griffins I saw the gap close, and part way up the hill towards The Cutting he appeared on my radar. I was expecting him to try for a pass at the cutting, but I didn't give him any opportunity, I wasn't prepared to risk hitting a wall by getting off line and he didn't have any overlap yet. He dropped back about 1s, maybe scrapped a wall. the gap expanded to 3s after Forrest.
From that point I focused on not 🤬 up, kept an eye on the gap, but it never closed to less than 2s. I can only assume he was having a harder time with the same car, cause by the end, despite being cautious I finished 4s ahead. :
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Yeh... I'm just as shocked as the rest of you

. SR up 4 (P2 had red). DR went up 1.1k

. Another day above DR 1

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