I hadn’t thought to post this here:
@GTFraker brought my attention to this; a few races I had against the (apparently) popular streamer Z28Gaming. I actually had no idea who he was, but I was surprised to see the broadcast had 1500+ views by the time the video was brought to my attention.
I thought it was really interesting to see the races from another perspective and hearing Z28’s thoughts. I love how he went from “what is this guy doing?” in the warm-up, to a more positive opinion of me during the race.
As for the races from my perspective; the first race was going great. I felt very comfortable with the car and coming off of a win in the previous race (not in video), along with having just made it to DR: S, I was feeling quite confident.
Unfortunately, on lap 2 I braked for Turn 3 a little earlier than normal and accidentally ended up cutting the corner too much which resulted in a penalty. So throughout the race I was trying to whittle that down, mainly through the first sector, which cost me a fair chunk of time. Two turns after I had finally got rid of the penalty, my T300RS spazzed out on me and decided to bring up the pause menu two consecutive times which handed Z28 the win.
The second race wasn’t quite as good for me. I felt strong while following Z28, but once I got ahead of him I just felt like I had no grip. I was struggling to hit the apexes along with carrying little speed into the corners.
I held onto the lead for a while, despite my lack of speed but that came to an end when my early braking (worn out tyres, plus I feel like the Viper isn’t that great under brakes compared to some of the other more capable Grp.4 cars) caught Z28 out on the penultimate lap causing him to punt me off at the NGK Chicane. That incident let the distant third place driver take the lead as Z28 slowed down to let me back through so neither of us were able to take the win. I wasn’t too fussed about what happened though, up until that point we had a great couple of races, lots of fun was had and that’s what’s most important.