16:00 EST Nations Race - Suzuka
For whatever reason, I never seem to feel right on Suzuka. I decided I would use the META GT-R after testing it and the 911 RSR. I felt faster in the RSR but felt more confident in the GT-R.
I enter with 14 on the door. I end up qualifying 8th. I decide I am going with a 3M/1H/6S/6S. Everything starts well and stays uneventful through my stops. No fuel until I put on the softs. I fill up then. I gain some spots and come back in for my second set of softs. Eventually I am in 6th when I come out on those new softs on lap 11. Coming out of T11 (Hairpin) I on the left and side by side with a Mustang that has been honing around the whole race. He veers left just a bit (I think accidentally) and now I am in the grass. I try to coax it back on the track but somehow graze thew wall, spin out, and end up in the sand on the right side.
I am down to 15 by the time I get headed in the right direction again. I pick off a few folks and end up in 11. Not a bad race but surely should have been around 6 or 7...
17:20 EST Manufacturer Series: Sardegna B
I thought I would be competitive here in the AMG GT3. I start with 8 on the door in this one. After feeling good about qualifying, I end up 17th.
I decide on a 3H/5M/7S/7S. The original plan was only 1 on hards but I got a good start and made some headway from people crashing and picking up penalties mostly on T1 that kept my pace and went with 3. The race was mostly uneventful. When I came in for the first set of softs, I filled up again.
Finally only 21, I notice that there is a NSX steadily catching up. On lap 22, at the left hander after the penalty zone, he take the inside and taps me. Not enough to put me in the dirt but enough to slow my momentum. I catch him right before the final kink. He pulled over to let me by and have my spot back. I told him I appreciated the gentlemanly racing move but I thought he made a good move and just got a little loose. I don't those things if I perceive it to be heated racing and not malicious bumping.
I told him so after the race. he said he felt bad because he slid in to me...nice guy!
Anyways, I bring it home in 9th which I thought was pretty good!
On to the next ones!
For whatever reason, I never seem to feel right on Suzuka. I decided I would use the META GT-R after testing it and the 911 RSR. I felt faster in the RSR but felt more confident in the GT-R.
I enter with 14 on the door. I end up qualifying 8th. I decide I am going with a 3M/1H/6S/6S. Everything starts well and stays uneventful through my stops. No fuel until I put on the softs. I fill up then. I gain some spots and come back in for my second set of softs. Eventually I am in 6th when I come out on those new softs on lap 11. Coming out of T11 (Hairpin) I on the left and side by side with a Mustang that has been honing around the whole race. He veers left just a bit (I think accidentally) and now I am in the grass. I try to coax it back on the track but somehow graze thew wall, spin out, and end up in the sand on the right side.
I am down to 15 by the time I get headed in the right direction again. I pick off a few folks and end up in 11. Not a bad race but surely should have been around 6 or 7...
17:20 EST Manufacturer Series: Sardegna B
I thought I would be competitive here in the AMG GT3. I start with 8 on the door in this one. After feeling good about qualifying, I end up 17th.
I decide on a 3H/5M/7S/7S. The original plan was only 1 on hards but I got a good start and made some headway from people crashing and picking up penalties mostly on T1 that kept my pace and went with 3. The race was mostly uneventful. When I came in for the first set of softs, I filled up again.
Finally only 21, I notice that there is a NSX steadily catching up. On lap 22, at the left hander after the penalty zone, he take the inside and taps me. Not enough to put me in the dirt but enough to slow my momentum. I catch him right before the final kink. He pulled over to let me by and have my spot back. I told him I appreciated the gentlemanly racing move but I thought he made a good move and just got a little loose. I don't those things if I perceive it to be heated racing and not malicious bumping.
I told him so after the race. he said he felt bad because he slid in to me...nice guy!
Anyways, I bring it home in 9th which I thought was pretty good!
On to the next ones!
. Umm, yeah, I raged, made a wild cut up the inside of the double lefts, get alongside the inside of the track rejoin and simply rub him off on the wall. He drops to p10, after my penalty I am p6. After that I get back close, make a clean move when one person serves their penalty, next person I just pass on the first sector, they decide to take either a massive lunge and out brake themselves . . . or they were aiming for me. I think they just out braked, but I watched them sail by and closed in but couldn't latch on to the lead 3.
I used to really like that car.
