Thanks, I finally got a proper chance to fear the fish from behind
See you in WRS and IGTC as well!
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A little race report from my perspective; Consistent race for me again, 1 stopper, no incidents to report.
After avoiding the carnage in the start, I was just behind
@Ph1sh as expected - He was on a slow pace, so I assumed he was saving fuel going for the long game, without any time to test fuel strategy for this race, I just followed suit and saved heavily. This meant
@Sophie was among us with no fuel saving in mind, so I had no reason to fight for my position. Sadly she had an incident with Ph1sh and I continued as P1 with heavy fuel save, short shifting and using map 3-6 in sector 1 while getting away from the field.
Ph1shs early pit surprized me, and I then realized he wasn't saving fuel at all, but had damage on his car - in the whole first stint! I pitted 3-4 laps after and fuelled to 100%, so I had the ability to turn up the pace
when Ph1sh was getting close.
As expected, Ph1sh set an insane pace, gaining around one second every lap. I wasn't sure if he was doing this with a bit of fuel save, as I could see that I'd have around ~1 lap worth of fuel left at the finish and he had used 3-4 laps worth of fuel more than me in this stint. It was quite scary and intens for me, as it really looked like he would be able to reach me in the last couple of laps... but the relive came when I saw him pit for fuel with 2 laps to go, phew!
Couple of comments;
The careless driving in the start was worse than amateur hour and I don't hope on seeing that again.
I wasn't happy with the handling of the qualification round, but I understand it isn't easy to manage an event while also competing yourself
@DynamicGT .
I also agree that penalties should be turned off, since the championship already have rules regarding track limits and time penalties with the ablility to report unclean driving - adding ingame penalties just doesn't make sense in that context.