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Who was it?
Your not in this one....
Your not in this one....
I had issues at the back. First time today that I had to use the letters f and u in the post race. He hit me about 10 times, and I hit him once, but I made it count.Hope he's in the next race. Yes, I'm vengeful, in case you haven't noticed.
I got to tell you, your recaps are always hilarious! You should write columns professionally, if you’re not already.By the Mountain, I feel nothing. For in my own beemer, every nut and bolt is broken....Yeh mon. It be another day on de Mountain wid de 'erb and all of @Pigems dubs. This week, aside from the ritual sacrifice of a Mustang to the Mountain spirits for the first race, I've been going with cars that i haven't race much, if at all online. Today's victim was the M6. Couldn't beat my Supra time, but I felt better in my own skin with the M6. No pesky DR/Bs to push me around. P7/19 on a mix of DR/Cs and Ds. I could see the guy behind me was one of the people who pushed past me yesterday.
Auto drive cuts out just as I was at the exit to Murray's and the dash for crash into Hell Corner begins (cue the opening music for the Mortal Kombat movie...). A couple of people stuff it and I gain a couple of places. By the end of lap 2 I was in P4. Lap 3 I bounce off the kerb entering the chase and end up mowing the lawn. That drops me back 4 places. With dirty tyres I get sideways at Murray's and loose another couple of places.
I manage to scrub the tyres clean and the chase is on. Somewhere along the way I picked up a 2s SR down penalty for being rear ended at Skyline or the dipper, or somewhere around there. I got the fuel light warning at the end of lap 4 so pit at the end of lap 5 in P7. The hards were still performing well. I changed to mediums anyway, because as we have previously established, my driving is a bit shyte and I don't trust myself to be able to make them last the whole race. I came out of the pits P8 and the guy in front was one of the people that pushed me off yesterday. He had fresh tyres too, but he became a road block on numerous occasions. I harassed him for the rest of the race and had to back off every time we came to The Cutting, the Esses, Forest elbow, The Chase, Murray's Corner and Hell Corner. He was such a road block that I just couldn't get a run on him to get past
. After 3 laps of this I finally managed to get beside him up the inside on Mountain Strait headed to Griffins Bend on the final lap
. He reluctantly conceded after he realised I was not going to back down
. By the time I got to Skyline I had a 5s gap. I cruised past someone who had spun at The Chase and finished P6
The guy I did laps with was driving a Ford GT. The M6 had no issues keeping up. Even with my crappy driving, tyres and fuel consumption seemed to be good. SR went up 2, and I got all the DR I lost yesterday back... with a few hundred more. Another day above DR 1
If the track is not R8-dominated like Maggiore or Suzuka, car diversity exists even as you get closer to the top. It's more immersive when there are different cars on the grid
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I got hit a few times, and was amazed that I kept a blue SR! I started 17th, then when I let you by, the guy behind you decide to ram his way past, pushing me wide - that then let the guy in 20th past. I then made all the places back up on the way to the finish line due to all the penalties!
Wow, what an idiot. You have much more patience than I do, I’d have “helped” him find a nice safe spot off the track somewhere where he couldn’t bother anyone.
I've had two races at Bathurst this week fighting a GT. I can only go off the driver I saw, but it seemed to be a typical Yank Tank... good in a strait line but not much else
I figured as much. Its handling is so-so in places especially around The Cutting (for me, at least) and with worn tyres, that's probably asking for trouble.
Ahhh, I see. Thanks for the info. I did get there in two races like I predicted. The first was a triple star win, though I didn’t get many points because as I was still a B/B I was being matched against lower rankings for the most part.
The next race I got moved up against mostly SR. S and a mix of DR. S, A, B, with some lower DR at the back. I started P3, finished P2. I was wondering why I got so many points from just moving up one spot but I didn’t know you got 1,500 points for moving up a level, so that explains that.
Thanks Sven.
We had a pretty close race a couple nights ago. You started on pole and I in P2. It quickly turned into a two man battle with you winning by around 1.5 seconds. It was a really fun race. PSN is bforce3169.
Anyways, while I hope to stay at DR. A I’m not sure I’ll be able to. I’m now probably going to be up against racers must faster and better than I am which means I may be starting in the backfield (ugh) but I’m certainly going to give it my best shot. When this has happened as a B/S I don’t move up or don’t move up much and my DR drops.
Over the last four months I’ve really tried to stay up high in SR, which has gone well for the most part, but I’ve had some “issues” with dirty drivers and those all too familiar BS penalties (getting hit from behind, hit by people trying to get back on track after messing up, etc.).
That’s one of my main pet peeves is people trying to rejoin the race in traffic.
One of my clean rules for myself is if I go off track is to wait for the traffic to pass. I understand that sometimes the car gets so out of control that it can be difficult but most of time you can stay off and a lot of drivers don’t even try, or worse, deliberately try to hit you upon rejoining even though you had nothing to do with them going off track in the first place. Drives me crazy. I’m not a “rubbing is racing” kind of driver either.
I try to pass without contact or EXTREMELY little contact. Racers who use my car to slow themselves down in corners really piss me off, as well as dive bombers. All the usual dirty things I suppose.
I’m also a an automatic transmission driver like yourself. I would like to race manual but I’ve got a bad right hand that prevents this on the DS4. 32 years ago a drunk ran my buddy off the road. The drunk was making a U-turn and ran us off the road into a light pole. Totaled my friend’s restored ‘72 Chevy Nova and my right arm which went roughly 7 inches into the metal dashboard. Came out in a Z shape and severed a nerve that went up into my hand as well a breaking both bones. I no longer have any feeling in my right hand and my thumb does not have full movement anymore because the muscle below the thumb never fully healed. Not having feeling in my finger affects my throttle control and I can’t get my thumb to reach the buttons other than the X button without my finger lifting off the R2 acceleration button. I do the best I can though.
If I ever get a wheel I’ll learn manual but right now that is WAY down the list of needs and wants in my household. Not sure I have the room for it either.
Well, thanks for reading my long post if you got this far!!
Have a good one!
Manual is also a slight disadvantage when you are stuck between a bunch of bumping aggressive drivers. Getting bashed around on/off track it's harder to get away from them when you've been totally thrown off your shifting pattern. I'm not sure if I'm actually faster manual shifting, the advantage is for minor corrections in corners, timing the upshift right has the same effect as a slight lift to steer in a bit more.
