I had a great night racing on Suzuka in GR.2, best GR for the track, flows so heavenly.
However first I got ticked off trying to buy a simple weatherproof am/fm radio to use pool site. I guess the day and age you can simply go to a store are over. No luck in big electronics stores, so last I tried redio shack, they should have simple radios right. Except it's called the source nowadays. Initially no, yet then they came up with a Monster bluetooth speaker with FM radio build in. Weather proof, 60W speaker. 36 hour battery life, charges with a standard power cable, included. No antenna though, yet was build in, should be fine, they said.
Not, piece of **** doesn't receive anything. 2 stations in the 80 mhz range then nothing. Manual tuning and grabbing on what metal part sticks out to use myself as an antenna conjures some faint music in between the static. It's 10x worse than my old crappy boom box of which the antenna broke off. I returned it the same day. Now they said it really was meant as a bluetooth speaker, not as a radio, but I could buy a radio and pair it with the speaker via bluetooth. I said goodbye. Not buying a second radio to pair with my first radio so I can listen to my radio that can't receive no ****ing radio. Muppets.
Browsing online I guess I need to look for work site radios, however I don't need power tool adapters or brand tied battery pack chargers. Nor do I need solar powered, hand cranked, flashlight integrated travel radios. I just want a weatherproof radio, ugh. /rant
Back on topic, Suzuka! The competition was strong tonight. Here's one of those grids.
My best lap at the end of the night was 1:51.7 I rather start last than 13th. I didn't qualify again.
I managed to get 9 races in, it looks like I was trying to cover all finishing positions.
As for DR in these tough rooms:
13th place up 4 positions -329 DR (Warm up race)
11th place up 7 positions +128 DR
10th place up 8 positions +408 DR
9th place up 9 positions +441 DR
12th place up 7 positions -138 DR (This race was not clean, got punted off track twice, it happens)
7th place up 12 positions +410 DR
3rd place up 15 positions +1070 DR (Awesome battle for 3rd in the last 3 laps)
8th place up 12 positions +202 DR
8th place up 10 positions +395 DR
A net gain of 2916 DR over all which puts me dangerously close to DR.A again, less than 500 points away. The DR.B shield came in handy in a couple races, no penalties for getting bumped from behind. The only 2 penalties I did get were a drive bomb clipping me on the way to punting another car off at the last turn, 3 seconds. And when I tried to over take in that same spot in a different race, the other car pushed me so far to the inside, while we were alongside, that I couldn't take the turn tight enough and he took it as if I wasn't there, thus bounced off me, karma and 2 sec.
It was an all blue night for me anyway, so much SR to gain most people were blue. In fact, I have no clue how that one DR.S driver managed to get a red B. Is DR.S held to a higher standard again?
Tomorrow Dodge Challenger on Big Willow for me!
I don’t usually pay much attention to that kind of thing
