Welp, two fairly disastrous races for me. First up, Race B. I usually do fairly well at Big Willow, so I was hoping to make it clean race 4 in a row. In terms of matchup, I was behind the 8 ball from the get go. 3xDR/C, the rest DR/B. I qualified P8/15.
Started well enough, even managed to get up to P6 and had a 2s lead when my clean race streak came to an end. On the 3rd lap the first corner immediately after the esses I thought I was clear, but realised my car was sliding toward the sand and no amount of Hail Mary combinations of downshifts or braking was going to stop the NSX from trying to be a rally car. So sad (insert crying smiley here), That broke my rhythm and just like full course yellows, mistakes breed mistakes. I had 2 more offs. All self inflicted
. Finished P10. 103 DR down. SR no change.
Second race, Race C. I was struggling during qualifying adapting to the lighting, but in the end I kinda did. I was still using The Force on some places. Qualified P6 amongst DR/Cs and Ds. I figured I would do well. I figured oh so very wrong. It was so tragic, you might almost call it comical.
Monza was a dream yesterday with the apparent easing of track limit penalties. Interlagos was also a dream.. known as nightmare
. The same lines and curbs I'd been taking for race after race there suddenly had me up to 20s in penalties. I even managed an orange SR... from a track limit infringement
(there was no cars within 2s of me). I had to try bleed that, then more penalties! It seemed that if it wasn't tarmac, it was a penalty!
I finished P13. 19/20 drivers had a red dot at the finish. Reminded me of the complaints about La Sarthe first time out! Another 598 DR down.
The slow steady decent to my home in DR/D has begun... again
. SR still 99.
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