Who is going to rename this thread to weekly race discussion!
I jumped on the new track with no time to spare for any practice or qualifying or whatever people normally do.
First race I had no clue where I was going and was driving by the mini map mostly. I managed to avoid almost all cars except one that dropped right in front of me before a corner and started braking immediately. That's a bad move under normal conditions, now you put a blindfold on me while I have never seen that upcoming corner before. Oh well 1 penalty, still blue rating, 12th place finish.
From there I have never seen so many DR.A+ DR.A and DR.S in one night. My first 6 races had maybe one DR.B lost among the crowd, tough competition. Tough car and track to learn as well driving from the back. Yet the 7th race I finally pulled off 5 clean laps for the clean race bonus, managed to finish 8th as well as the fast people started leaving.
I should have stopped there. Next race, fewer fast people, more clumsy people... I get punted first, then the same move that got me in the first race. A car switching sides, while everyone is braking already, putting his car in front if mine. Now I'm in his slipstream with no where to go as I'm boxed in and of course I run into him. When do people learn you can't do that! I tap him slightly, just enough so he goes wide, 4 sec penalty. It was the same driver that punted me into the wall before. Then later someone tries to overtake yet nicks the grass. I see him too late, he wobbles into me, touches my bumper and wobbles back. Just the 1 sec penalty for me, yet those 2 contacts dropped me to SR.A, -21 SR for that. What happened?
Then I felt like I should do one more to restore SR. Ugh, SR.A is chaos!!! From mostly DR.A to mostly DR.D (and I still didn't qualify naturally). The first lap was more like playing break out with cars. Well I did break out to 4th, chasing the 3 people that had dropped out of the fast room as well. I stayed pretty much 10 sec behind them for the rest of the race while building up a 40 sec gap to the chaos in the back. No penalties, yet due to all the banging in the first lap, +3 SR, SR.S barely, at 81.
At first I didn't like the track, yet I warmed up to it a little. However GR.1 might be a better fit, 5 laps is short. GR.4 no thanks. It has way too many walls though, blind corners everywhere, annoying. Enough for tonight, I'll see tomorrow if qualifying times are kept for the week, oh wait
Saint Croix stats so far, 9 races, avg start 18th, avg finish 10.33, 44 laps. (Timed out on the first race 50 meters short of the line)
DR up 900 to 36K, SR down to 81.
