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Slot 1: Once again matched with @Geauxgreddy and @F1Bernardo and once again couldn't finish the race where I wanted (not my fault for once!) I qualified P9 and checked the points before the race started and saw that P9 was worth 234 points - a decent result if I could manage it in this turd of a car. I elected to do a 1H/11S strategy because the only way I was going to pass anyone in the Corvette truck was to have a tire advantage. Sure enough, when the people who started on Softs pitted, I was up to P8 head to Turn 1, looking to grab P7 when the jackass tried to block me in the braking zone with predictable results. I punted him off track and got a 2s penalty as a result, dropping me back to P9 for the finish. I had been looking at over 260 points in a race I absolutely didn't have pace in, and instead had to settle for 234. As I said, I would've been content with it if that was where I'd ended up without any incidents, but now I wanted more.
Slot 2: Finished P13 of 14 because I spun myself at CoD. Nothing really happened besides that
Slot 3: Qualified 15th but finished 10th due to literally the entire midfield dying at the CoD on Lap 1. Might've been able to get more, but I spent half the race sideways at the exit of the CoD...
Slot 4: Qualified P12 and finished P13 yet again because I was somehow the only one who died at the CoD.
Slot 5: I'd already resigned myself to being stuck doing this all day, and was expecting yet another frustrating round, made even worse by the 3-hr break afterwards. It started as expected with a P13 qualifying effort. It was made even worse because for the first time all day, I wasn't in Top Split, so I'd need a Top 5 at minimum to get similar points to what I got in the first slot (at least it would be easier to get though). Like all the other races, I decided on a 1H/11S strat. I jumped a BMW at the start (the only advantage of being in the Corvette), then picked up 2 more spots due to people outbraking themselves at the 2nd hairpin to move up to P10 before pitting. I came out of the pits in P12, so even after pitting I was already ahead of where I started. A few laps later I passed the same BMW I passed at the start after they spun at the exit of the final corner while doing a no-stop, then on Lap 8 I caught another no-stopper in a Cayman, and passed him at the 2nd hairpin, only to once again lose the back end of the car at the CoD and hand the spot back when I body-slammed the inside wall at the exit. I re-passed at the esses the next lap, and moved up to P10, where I stayed until Lap 12.
I'd been keeping an eye on the gap to the leader and saw that while the leader was out of reach, I could pick up a lot of spots when everyone else pitted as long as I could avoid making my own mistakes. For some reason, one of the front-runners pitted at the end of Lap 10 to run 2 laps on the Hards. He still came out way in front of me, but nearly spun it at the exit of first chicane. For the rest of the lap he kept it together, although obviously I continued to close in on my Soft tires. When everyone else pitted at the end of Lap 11, I found myself in P6, with both the Mustang running 2 laps on Hards in P5, and a GT-R that just came out of the pits in P4 directly in front of me. They tried to go side-by-side through the esses and had some netcode contact, which put the Mustang out wide and allowed me to squeeze through into P5. The Mustang then flashed his lights, and up next was the hairpin before the CoD, so I knew what was coming... Sure enough, just as I was about to turn in for the hairpin, I saw the Mustang dart up the inside, so I straightened my wheel a bit and watched him torpedo the GT-R, giving me P4. Then between the CoD and final corner, I passed the jackass who cut me off and ruined my first race as he was going slow on the inside. Turns out, he'd been leading comfortably before the pit stops but spun himself out at the exit of the final corner as he was entering the pits, and he crossed the pit line as a result, which gave him a 3s penalty that he served on the final lap! Karma! That gave me P3 at the finish, which could've been P2 if not for my earlier mistake at the CoD, but I still walked away with a podium from P13 on the grid, with 273 points!
Here's the video of what happened on the last lap:
Slot 2: Finished P13 of 14 because I spun myself at CoD. Nothing really happened besides that
Slot 3: Qualified 15th but finished 10th due to literally the entire midfield dying at the CoD on Lap 1. Might've been able to get more, but I spent half the race sideways at the exit of the CoD...
Slot 4: Qualified P12 and finished P13 yet again because I was somehow the only one who died at the CoD.
Slot 5: I'd already resigned myself to being stuck doing this all day, and was expecting yet another frustrating round, made even worse by the 3-hr break afterwards. It started as expected with a P13 qualifying effort. It was made even worse because for the first time all day, I wasn't in Top Split, so I'd need a Top 5 at minimum to get similar points to what I got in the first slot (at least it would be easier to get though). Like all the other races, I decided on a 1H/11S strat. I jumped a BMW at the start (the only advantage of being in the Corvette), then picked up 2 more spots due to people outbraking themselves at the 2nd hairpin to move up to P10 before pitting. I came out of the pits in P12, so even after pitting I was already ahead of where I started. A few laps later I passed the same BMW I passed at the start after they spun at the exit of the final corner while doing a no-stop, then on Lap 8 I caught another no-stopper in a Cayman, and passed him at the 2nd hairpin, only to once again lose the back end of the car at the CoD and hand the spot back when I body-slammed the inside wall at the exit. I re-passed at the esses the next lap, and moved up to P10, where I stayed until Lap 12.
I'd been keeping an eye on the gap to the leader and saw that while the leader was out of reach, I could pick up a lot of spots when everyone else pitted as long as I could avoid making my own mistakes. For some reason, one of the front-runners pitted at the end of Lap 10 to run 2 laps on the Hards. He still came out way in front of me, but nearly spun it at the exit of first chicane. For the rest of the lap he kept it together, although obviously I continued to close in on my Soft tires. When everyone else pitted at the end of Lap 11, I found myself in P6, with both the Mustang running 2 laps on Hards in P5, and a GT-R that just came out of the pits in P4 directly in front of me. They tried to go side-by-side through the esses and had some netcode contact, which put the Mustang out wide and allowed me to squeeze through into P5. The Mustang then flashed his lights, and up next was the hairpin before the CoD, so I knew what was coming... Sure enough, just as I was about to turn in for the hairpin, I saw the Mustang dart up the inside, so I straightened my wheel a bit and watched him torpedo the GT-R, giving me P4. Then between the CoD and final corner, I passed the jackass who cut me off and ruined my first race as he was going slow on the inside. Turns out, he'd been leading comfortably before the pit stops but spun himself out at the exit of the final corner as he was entering the pits, and he crossed the pit line as a result, which gave him a 3s penalty that he served on the final lap! Karma! That gave me P3 at the finish, which could've been P2 if not for my earlier mistake at the CoD, but I still walked away with a podium from P13 on the grid, with 273 points!
Here's the video of what happened on the last lap:
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