Nations Round 1
This race had so much potential and ended up completely infuriating.
Everything that could possibly go wrong did. I was absolutely raging by the end of the night.
I was nervous about it going in, then found it was actually really fun... at first. My first attempt was some of the best racing I've had in a long time, all the way up until the final sector. The penalty system had just been waiting the whole time, and I wasn't going to be allowed to escape unscathed. Everyone went full send at the end and it seems I was selected to receive the penalties. 🤬
I accidentally tapped a kart in front after emerging over the upward left-hander to find he was going quite slowly over the apex, so I lost some of my momentum. He didn't seem to have any negative impact from it though - if anything that worked in his favour! The kart behind then hit me, and I got 6 seconds of penalties for it. 🤬
Some more fighting happened in the final bends and I snuck between it for P6 on the line, dropped back to P10. No other penalties that I noticed for anyone else in that pack though.
I should have stopped there, but seeing what I could have achieved with a clean race was too tempting.
The second race was a disaster; mistakes in qualifying, my PS4 displaying a full-screen error message
mid-race because the streaming connection dropped and me making stupid mistakes from frustration led to a very poor result.
Then I went again, for more of the same as the second race although with a slightly better result. Still far worse than my first attempt though. Driving angry doesn't work at the best of times, let alone in the karts. So many errors from trying to push too hard.
Not the start to the season I was hoping for, and it cost me about 1.2k DR in the process.