I don't usually do summaries but tonights races have been either end of the spectrum!
Nations:
Decided to use the 86 anyway, I have a lot of time in that car, and know it pretty well.
Quali P2, 1:29.1 IIRC
Race start, manage to hold position for the first few corners and stay in P1 slip stream, after a few laps he gets a penalty and decides to take it on the back straight gifting me P1, dropping him back behind me a fast charger merges and gets to within a second, I drive hard to keep the gap over a second and in pick up a 0.6 cut penalty but continue.
We pit and he has saved 2% more than me, so gets a slight advantage as we come out, a lap or so hes right behind and I decide to be smart and get rid of the penalty on the back straight, let him past, hold his sliptstream and attack when his tyres are worn near the end.
The penalty didn't disappear so I continue but he just had that slight edge on me so was making time every lap, fast forward to the finish
He slows to take his penalty, I slow to take mine, end up coming P2 by 0.4s. good race very tense, had the penalty gone when I needed it too, I would have had P1 but he was faster anyway so... pleased with that result, 1560 points
Manu:
Supra, oh boy this car is fast on this track
I thought...
Quali P6 with a fair lap, can't remember the time but likely a high 2:01
Race start and I brake just perfectly for T1, early enough to be safe, late enough to defend, guys in front decide its a smash bro melee and my screen flashes up with penalties all over the place.
I keep my nose out of trouble, frustratingly the places I'm quick others are really slow so I'm bound by their pace and cant take advantage until the straight where we can work together, I knew the supra was bad on fuel and in my first stint I'm shifting halfway on the bar holding 4th round T1 and T2.
Halfway round lap 4 I get a fuel warning
Ultra Eco mode engaged and I pit at the end of lap 5, fill her right up
come out of the pits and now need to make this fuel last 6 laps, that means shifting before the bar even lights up, coasting, and 6th gear pretty much the entire course, exception being 5th gear at T1 and T2.
This kills the crab
while I'm trying to judge the corner speed I get it wrong at T1 and hit the wall (not too hard, noone else involved ) get 5sec
later that same lap again I misjudge my speed and just like before, 5 sec
all the while I'm trying to stay with the car infront and save fuel in his slipstream, hopefully work together to get up to the next pack.
but maybe he was saving fuel too, because on the last lap Ted and Bill just appear out of nowhere and pass us like warpspeed on the straight, and I've still got 10 sec to bleed off
ended P10, felt like crying, for the most part the race was dirty as hell, divebomber central, but me and the guy in the porsche in our own little world had a bit of fun.
I wasn't fell confortable with the Veyron and not fast with other cars, so I decided to do the Man. series race, fearing what will come next 
what came was............a fair and exciting race, with no deaths at the first turn 
got 8th and 1412 points in a track which the Alfa clearly was not suit for it, so it seems I made a good decision today 
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