was quite looking forward to this car/track combo as I like the Red Bull Ring on the F1 games and enjoyed the
TS050 one make Gr.1 race at Circuit de la Sarthe last week so was up for another race with them.
didn't really go to plan. went for the 4th and 5th races, qualified 4th I think in my first race with a fairly scruffy lap but then got kicked from the lobby while waiting for quali to finish. slightly annoying to take a hit to my DR for that, and disappointed not to get to do the race, but more annoyingly had to wait another 70 mins for the next race...
did a couple of practice races in a lobby to try out different strategies, felt comfortable with the car and the track but not overly quick. got into the last race after a last minute game freeze but only qualified 6th - spent so long faffing around preparing for my second hotlap, trying to keep out of the way and find a gap that I forgot to actually go out of the last corner and ruined the lap before it began
race itself started about as well - started on mediums, I was closing on the guy in front into T1 so moved to the side and went to brake early in case he did too. he did brake very early, and turns out I didn't move far enough over as I sent him left into the right hander. oops, my bad entirely. T2 I decided to be very cautious and brake very early, managed to somehow still bump the car in front off. lifted off to let him go in front, again my bad. then I span on the exit of T3, which I hadn't done all evening. 18th out of 19 with only half a lap gone, brilliant. apologised to both in the lobby afterwards, if they're on here then apologies again.
from thereon I just tried to do as well as I could, caught a few people spinning, the mediums > hards > softs strategy worked nicely, got the fastest lap at the end, couple of overtakes, ended up crossing the line in 10th and was promoted to 8th as two people in front botched the strategy and got 20 second penalties. had door number 8 so ended up right where I was meant to finish, so not too bad. about 110 points in the bag too.
Final race of the season should be fun - never driven round Sardegna, no idea how it goes. think it has windmills maybe??