Last night I did some real highway racing, Christmas shopping in the next town over. I kindly had to remind myself it is customary to stay in between the lines in real life and rubbing is frowned upon. I arrived safely without any SR Downs nor wall penalties, mirrors still attached.
However on the way back my failing sense of direction struck. I missed the entry back on the highway in a confusing, foggy, night time, busy mess and ended up in a rural area. I figured I would follow the highway on local roads to the next entrance, crossed it once, then thought I crossed it again at a point where there was only an entrance in the wrong direction. It turned our to be a feeder highway I crossed while my mind was convinced I was now on the North side of the highway I needed to get on. That's one disastrous misbelief in the middle of the night with heavy fog. I ended up in the middle of nowhere with fog patches so thick at points I wasn't sure the road was continuing.
Instead of going right, back to the highway I went left and only got further away from it. Confused by not hitting the highway again or any other road names I know that should be there on the side I believed I was on, I turned left again and again until I hit signs with directions to the airport. When I finally got back to the highway I was so convinced I had to turn right onto it that it felt extremely disorienting to go in the opposite direction. Total navigation failure, and one wonders how I get to my 1 hour 18 minute qualifying time! I ended up doing 82km for the 41km trip home. At least the highway itself was high enough to be above the fog. Once I got off it again close to home I had to slow down to 40kph as visibility was 20 meters or less, crazy dynamic weather!
The real life experience paid off, first race tonight, 8 positions gained with the clean race bonus. No fog, day time, clear track, GTS is so easy. Other good news, I missed the 5am entry today, I finally slept a few hours more! Unfortunately the 5:30 am race had the fast people again already. 6am race is loading, 11 people, SR is back to S and A only. The world is starting to wake up.
Grrr, disconnected in lap 2. Go get em
@Vegard!