Tsukaba last night was fun to drive, yet too many frustrated people around. First race I was still rusty and not able to avoid most of the rammers and ended up in SR.A right after finishing 13th. It was a flashing PENALTY ram fest. I got lapped as well after having to server over 10 sec of penalties twice, and it seems I was the only one actually moving over for the blue flag lol.
The next race in SR.A was much better, probably because I started near the top. I only got bumped from behind once for a minor penalty (got to drive around with that flashing penalty sign if you want to or not) and climbed to 2nd place, some way behind a C/S driver working on fixing his recent reset. It got me back to 96 SR, back to the danger zone.
The third race actually went great for the first half. Started 8th, managed to get in first and led for about 8 laps until I made a minor mistake and 2nd place managed to get in draft range in lap 20. He then dove in on me before I could extend the lead again, bumped me wide and went wide himself, 1 sec penalty. 3rd place took the opportunity and bumped passed me while I was getting back up to speed, +2 sec penalty. Then before I could catch first, the original bumper bumped me from behind again another 3 times so now my total was 6 sec and the over taker with 2 sec had extended the gap to 1.8 sec thanks to all the bumping. The car harassing me quit before the end with nearly 20 sec in penalties (he got 4 or 5 sec every time he hit me) and I had to settle for second. Frigging frustrating.
The last race I was patiently behind a slightly slower driver in the first 2 laps, planning to over take carefully. Too bad an aggressive driver behind me drafted me, stuck his nose next to my bumper on the fast right before the finish, then ground his way past me pushing me out of the track. Since he pushed me wide, the next car bump passed me on T1 as well. The car after that throught it was the cool thing to do and bumped me from behind a few times to try to push me wide again yet had to slow down due to getting to many penalties. Meanwhile I'm driving around with 4 sec penalties again from the bumping, add another 1.5 when I have to evade a car and get a detour penalty in the right hander after the hair pin. I lost 4 places at the finish with the penalties, 8th instead of 4th.
Frustrating! God of War was really good the rest of the night
Record low for me, only 4 races in a day (my average is 12 a day!)
Nur24h is my facvorite. It's the weekend though, I hope people don't ruin it...
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Maybe I could have improved to a 1'27.9 if I was very lucky but the 1'28.100 reflects my ability pretty well, I just don't have the gift to go alien speed and yet I'm comfortably faster than a lot of other guys.
