Mountain in the shadow of light, rain in the valley below. Well you can say your Peter, say your Dick. Don't put me up on your bedroom wall. Caaaall meeeeeeee King of the Mountain! What a week so far. Race B has been my poison of choice.
I started off as I do every time Bathurst rolls around, with the HDT Mustang (suffer in ya jocks Ford fans

). It was a slippery old ride compared to qually. I expected to be starting somewhere in the last few positions, but nope, P6. Welcome to Monday

. Was the highest DR/D, was all DR/B ahead and a DR/A as the top non qualifier. Unfortunately I just couldn't get a handle on the beast... probably due to disgust

. Finished P9 after screwing up the kink at the end of Conrod going two wide with the car I was next to on the bumper of the car in front of him. I was a bit of a passenger, but somehow managed to get it back on the track and slowed down before the entrance to the chase.. where I was summarily executed and found myself against the wall. I didn't get the number of the truck that hit me, but I assume it was a result of my unceremonious re-entry

. Finished P9. Lost 4 SR and gained 200DR.
Next up with the HDT M4. I managed to improve my qualy time a hair (0.2s), and I found myself starting P3 on a grid of all DR/Ds... finally! I had an even harder time with the beemer compared to qualy. Couldn't get it to turn in as sharply, a lot more understeer

. Finishing the second lap I went wide at Murray's because I couldn't get it to turn, and P4 slipped past on the inside nice and clean (he'd been patient for the whole of lap 2). Finished P4. SR up to 99 again and DR up 844. Better finish, but I was very uncomfortable the whole race with the usually stable M4 squirming around like it had worms

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Tonight hallelujah! Went in in with Godzilla. Yeh, I know it's not an R32, but the commentators described it as "Godzilla has returned to the Mountain!". I took another 1.5s off my qualy time and was shocked to find myself on pole!!!! That's 7/763. I started well, managed to line up Hells for a good clean exit before anyone had a chance to ram me, and lead from start to finish. The guy in P2 was closing in on lap 1, but must have botched Murray's because the gap went up to 2s. After that I kept an eye on the gap every so often and it had stretched to 4s. I went into "ohcrpohcrapohcrap" mode and got conservative, saw the gap shrink to 2s, then back to 4. Missed out on a clean race bonus for tapping the wall on the final lap at Forrest Elbow. That cost me 1.5s, but I kept my cool... sort of, and finished a tad under 4s ahead. It wasn't the casual stroll it seemed, I was freaking out the whole race

! Also got fastest lap

. Sadly, the stars either hadn't appeared or had already disappeared

:
SR Blue (no one to hit), DR went up 1.1k. Finally a few days above DR1

!.