Wow. Yesterday was probably the best single day of racing I’ve had since starting this game about 9 months ago. I ran something like 17 races at La Sarthe, won 12 of them, podium 4 times and one 5th place which I still gained like 10 points for. Not a single SR or DR loss all day. The rooms weren’t the strongest, since I had 10 poles, but there were always 4-6 other A/S or S/S drivers if not more...not to mention the B/S guys that are capable of a killer pace, there are many. Several A+ drivers made appearances too, but not a lot. I even had the honor of beating a couple guys I consider to be among the fastest in the Americas region. Wut?
I actually managed to make it to A+ and I never really thought I would. At least what this tells me is that I perform on an A+ level on this track/car combo. That’s not the case for most tracks so I know my rating will fluctuate, but this at least reassures me that I’m getting there. I try not to worry about DR too much but it still feels good as a personal accomplishment kind of thing just to know that I’m capable.
Many thanks to all the GTPer’s I saw out there, you guys are awesome.
@rex1825 probably taught me yesterday’s most valuable lesson when racing with the R18. Bro, you were one of only like 3 people to beat me yesterday and you did it with great strategy. That pug is so fast on the straight and you saved fuel like a champ. After that race I didn’t take tires the rest of the night and won almost every race. I drive AT and wasn’t conserving at all, so I found that if I can get enough of a jump to keep my slipstream away from the pack, I can usually still keep a fast enough pace to the finish line in P1 with a couple seconds to spare even on spent tires. I chanced it and took tires in that race with you, which is the only reason I pulled that lap time, but the battle was too tight and I didn’t expect you to have so much fuel left! You’re the man
@Sven Jurgens was in nearly half of my races yesterday it seemed and he was consistently gaining 10 or more positions from all the way in the back and made it to top 5 in at least a few. Well done sir. Also saw
@vvise in one or two and he was keeping a great pace as well up towards the front pack.
Hope to see you guys around again on Saturday before and during FIA.
I'm still starting in the back, see you there.
That makes me think of Mayday where a plane had to make an emergency landing when they fueled up in liters instead of gallons. Or the one where the cargo weight conversion went wrong and it crashed on take off. Yay for standards.
I had it dialed in by lap 4, a bit late. On to the second attempt.
my A+ rating is in jeorpady again 
And it's all my fault, thanks to the fact that I managed to create a big incident at Le Mans because I got distracted by my fuel management and overshoot the braking 
. Oddly enough I didn't notice any dirty driving. 
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. The guy in P10 was a long way behind, but my struggles in the chicane gave him many seconds to catch up. The lime green Tomahawk passed me under the Porsche sign. Then tragedy struck. Despite having managed fairly comfortably for 4 laps, and despite the massive run out aria, I locked up the rear and ended up in the sand at Corvette 
. Another day above DR 1 
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