Snow Day today! Looks like I’ll get to do some racing.
I hate to break it to you, but there's no such thing as snow. It's a mass hallucination caused by mind control substances used by the Government. The Government is in turn being controlled by evil aliens (otherwise known as Japanese Idol Singers)
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Well after the debacle of the other night where I was in P3, spun out on the first lap after 4 corners, dropped to last place, worked my way through the field to P6, then drop to P7 when a car materialised in front of me, then get disconnected just as I was headed to the final corner of the final lap <heavy breathing whilst catching breath>... I decided to give the M6 another crack last night. I wasn't able to improve on my time, and the whole grid looked to be faster, based on the qualy times, I started P4/14.
Since according to PD, the time set with the M6 was my personal best for the track in Gr3, I did a DRWF livery for it, anticipating that it would be the fastest car for me come Saturday morning.
The race starts, we all go screaming off towards T1/2, and somehow I managed to get through OK. I made it past T3 and 4 ok, and this time i managed not to go too fat to the left and touch the grass, so I didn't spin out. Whoohoo! My joy at this achievement was short lived however. I was rudely interrupted by a period of possession. I'm not sure who was driving, bu they were clearly retarded. Instead of the nice smooth turn ins and exits I was getting for qualifying and during my race in the last couple of laps the day before, I was practically parking it on the outside of every corner. I saw my positions steadily drop down to last place. No one was driving dirty, no one knocked me off. They all just quietly slipped by the inside. It was depressing. Then I spun out. My only saving grace was someone else screwed up so I finished P13. SR dropped a couple and DR dropped a lot... to add to the 1k+ that i lost from the disconnect. I just wanted to find a hole to crawl in
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So, tonight I did some laps with a car I've never used in the dailies before, The Nissan Mitsubishi Renault R.S.01. I came very close to my qualifying time before the race. When I entered, I had another 12 mins to do some more qualifying laps, and I managed to crack the 2 min time barrier that had eluded me. That had me starting... P4 again. The guy who started P2 last night started P5. As Paris Hilton says "No, practice more.".
The dash for crash into T1/2 went fairly smoothly, although I did see a nose on the inside, but they couldn't make it stick because it placed me on the inside for T2 or the chicane. P4 saw me cut the corner just a hair too much, so 0.5s penalty. I picked up a position just before the esses, but lost it again when I hit the penalty zone on the second lap.
One thing I discovered with the Renault, was that if you got on the inner kerbs fully, and particularly when the white concrete extends past the kerbs, you suddenly loose drive when you plant the throttle. It's like driving in treacle
. I saw gaps behind me suddenly shrink and gaps in front of me widen. I keeping off the parts that bogged me down, I closed in on P2. I nearly had him heading into the last few corners, but I bogged at the critical moment. Despite that I got a bit of a surprise :
I really wasn't expecting to see that star
. Pretty happy with that result
. SR back to full, and I got back all the DR I last last night. A bit over 1.1k left to get back what I lost from the disconnect
. Another day above DR 1
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The way I see it, I didn't leave him an opening to exploit he just rammed me out of the way. This is the type of thing that the penalty system should be for.
