Northern Isle is a strange one, the SF car doesn't turn at all on what should be a flat out turn, I've seen similar with the Red Bull at the banked hairpin at Maggiore. I guess it's something to do with high downforce on the banking but there is something badly wrong with the physics there, everywhere else feels fairly good (maybe not enough to be breaking world records but within a few tenths is possible, the best pad users can manage it most weeks).
He's several seconds a lap faster than me...
Manufacturer's Series Round 17 - Alsace Village / Gr4
Pretty decent result in tonight's round at Alsace. Was not expecting to do well at all, having struggled to find the rhythm in FP earlier in the week. But was able to post a time good enough for 2nd early in the qualifying round, eventually it was beat and I botched my second flyer on fresh tires, midway around, so I started 6th.
Ran as high as 4th before pit stops, raced clean with an NSX that dogged me in the later laps, when my M's started to fade, had to concede my targeted 5th place to a fast Toyota on the last lap, and then just tried to be ready if those two caused trouble between them over the last half lap. But I could only get inside of the 86 at the line, and settled for a solid 6th place, with decent DR to keep and useful FIA points over my current target of 125 per race (which would get me over 1000 for the season).
For the record I didn't get creative and just went 5S/8M, and I think that was the right split as the M's were starting to complain and I was definitely in the overlap for lap times when I stopped.
Just couldn't hold this Toyota off or take advantage of his tussle with that NSX at the end...
One thing I've learned is that I need to lean toward short-filling on those last stops... I once again ended up with well over 1 lap's worth of fuel at the end, and I'm sure it cost me at least one position, maybe two. This has happened at least two other times this year where there were critical pit stops. I would rather have to lean it down on the last lap and protect any gap I was able to create, than keep losing spots to guys with fuel in the tank. Especially at this track. I think it would be easy to keep pace without using as much fuel if you wanted. Lesson learned!
(and yes, a FF TT won pole and the race in my lobby!)
@HaydenFan69 ...shout out to Michigan racers! I think I'm going to hit a wall at at 6th, if I can even get there... in a good battle with a few others that has been close all year. But 5th place with PhatPhella looks like it's out of touch for me. I'm happy with this as a newcomer and rookie FIA season racer! Keep driving, though, the season is barely more than half way over, and the points may move a lot as people change DR ranges, etc.
Qually p6 race p6 happy days. This race although quiet fun was all about slip stream. Wasn’t really much racing going on but a fun track to drive, very swooping
edit: oh also bumped into a fellow GTP member. Started p5 finished p8/9 👍
. It was a nice quiet race, had a nice little train going with a group of us for most of the race from about p5-p8, all clean and fair. I like quiet races like that 
. However, it wasn't quite perfect for myself, I went with the 5S/3M/5S strategy, which seemed to be ideal for the NSX, however like the numpty I am, I messed up my fuel strat...Fuel saving was going very well until I pitted for a splash on lap 8 when I went in for mediums, as I basically took on 1lap-1.5laps less fuel than I should've. As a result, whilst I came out in that p5-p8 group, I had to really save fuel. And in the end it was too much, last lap was a crawl, and I ran out 100m from the line, finishing 10th as a result 
.), as it looks like a no-stop sprint race, and given the Gr.3 NSX's deficiencies in a straight line, the slipstream will be so crucial.
Qually p6 race p6 happy days. This race although quiet fun was all about slip stream. Wasn’t really much racing going on but a fun track to drive, very swooping
edit: oh also bumped into a fellow GTP member. Started p5 finished p8/9 👍
I have been keeping out of this debate,if you can call it that, but have to say this.
Definitely agree with this. I was only able to lap in the 2:02's in a practice race and thought I'd get destroyed in the race proper, and looking at your KudosPrime you're a similar level to me. I watched @Tidgney 's stream, saw his lap times and almost backed out, but glad I didn't.
Yeah, I wish I knew what the difference was to the really top tier guys... I think some of it is feel, but for the life of me I wasn't clear where I was losing so much time compared to the leaderboard. I'm consistently within just over 2% of Gr4 times, but here the gap was nearly 2x that. Was hitting 2:01's in my Cayman in practice and my QT in clean air was the same, and that was good enough for 3rd or maybe 2nd in my lobby (only a TT in the 2:00's), if I had held on to my better flying lap. And I was really close to the pace I needed for a podium, even if the Cayman was at a disadvantage (I know that I could have shaved another almost 1 sec off my time in a TT... I love that car and have been successful in it elsewhere.) This was in a room of all A drivers, estimated range 31k-35k since I was #9 at just over 33k.
