Some race to remember, some race to forget... welcome to the Hotel Nurburgring. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...

. Gave the Viper another shot. When I tried qualifying the other night, I couldn't find any major difference between the three compounds. Big difference with the M3, worth at least 10s for me. but the Viper, not the way I drive

. I actually preferred the handling of the hards. Also discovered that in some places I was braking, I could do better by feeding in the throttle.
I did a lap where I could see I had the potential of matching my M3 time, but time was running out so I just had to cheat and let the game impose my M3 time on the matching. I am still of the belief that if you change cars, you should qualify again. Anyhoo, that got me P6/18 on a mixed grid of DR/A, B, C and D. The DR/D on pole was a bit suspect... 7s clear of the DR/A in P2. My time was 27s down from pole

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I decided to go with hards, short shift the fast bits and just take on fuel. Auto drive quits and the dash for crash is on! i got nudged at T1 by someone being optimistic, but didn't get knocked off and managed to squeeze myself round T2 in slow motion. I managed to maintain a 2s gap entering the Nordschleife. I got passed a crashed car and into 5th. Somewhere between Tiergarten and Hocheichen the guy behind me caught up and had overlap on the inside. I pulled aside and we went round the corner side by side as he slowly slipped by nice and clean 👍. I pitted P6 with 0.8 of a lap left in the tank from short shifting alone.
I came out of the pits P5 with a 15s lead and it didn't take long for me to start haemorrhaging time because of tyre wear. Unlike those who claim a no stop of softs, I was struggling with hards! The 15s lead evaporated and eventually I was caught, by the same guy who passed me before. Again a nice clean pass. He finished 20s ahead of me. My race ended in P6, 5s clear the the guy behind.
SR still on max. DR up about 730. 3 more pts to another adventure to DR/C

. Another day above DR 1

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