Well the week is over, a bitter taste left in my mouth wondering "What might have been?". Three night, three races, three results.
First up was the Pug. I recall a couple of people singing it's praises and proclaiming it to be the META.... and since I never saw more than three of any car in any of the races i had been in, I figured I'd give it a go. So out with the Skunkworks Pug. Couldn't improve upon my qualy time, so started P10/16.
The race was a fairly clean affair, but i had a roadblock in the way in the shape of a Jag. I had to keep easing back because I kept finding myself right up his arse with no where to go and it kept killing my momentum. A couple of times I had overlap on the inside, but couldn't get past, he wasn't giving an inch. I tapped him a few times unintentionally, then backed off to see what would happen. He managed to maintain control luckily....I didn't fancy loosing a bunch of places waiting for him to regain position if he came off
. All this holding me up allowed the guy behind to get a better run up the main strait and pass me on the outside, then cut across for the final corner and pass the guy that was holding me up all race just before the finish line. It looked messy. I finished P5... if I had gotten past the roadblock, I reckon it would have been P3. SR Blue, DR up 550ish.
Then I realised there was *another* Pug
. Last night I went with that. Started P10/15.
Race starts, I get up to P6 by the end of the 1st lap. On the second lap I was slammed into the shadow realm at T3 and into last place.. with a 1s penalty just to add to it
. I managed to claw my way up to P9. Lost 2SR and 180DR.
Tonight I went in with the AMG GT3, beat my qualy time... and still started P7/16.
I was off to a good start, up to P5 for the first lap and closing in on P4, when I had a controller malfunction at T5 between Budweiser Balcony and Munroe Ridge. I have little caps that go over the tops of the analogue sticks, and when I pulled my thumb across to full lock, just as I was about to clear the corner, it slipped off and I was onto the sand, then back onto the track and on the other side, where i was re-spawned in last place
. I managed to finish the race with the cap off, but I had a hard time scrubbing the tyres clean and finished P10. SR back to 99, Dr dropped about 200.
And so the slide down the DR/D begins.....