Would be nice if everyone did a brief race report so everyone knows what their fellow drivers went through during the race. Here's mine:
I was pretty nervous going into this race after fairing pretty poorly in the couple of race I was available for last season, but had gained a little bit of confidence lapping around the same pace as rynedee in practice who finished 2nd overall in season 1. I started 3rd or 4th on the grid for this race.
I had a pretty good start, and gained on trimble, who was right in front of me, pretty quickly. At the first turn, I think I touched the back of battman's car and that probably led to him oversteering a bit on the exit. That was enough for trimble and myself to pass him. Positions changed on almost each turn during the first lap except for trimble who opened up a little bit of a gap probably because I was in second and holding battman back. Towards the end of the first lap when I was in 4th, I got bumped (unintentionally) off track by rynedee and this left me playing catch up from last place for a while.
The remainder of the race was just a race for 2nd place like ryne had predicted since batt was so far ahead of everyone else. I managed to do a few quick laps and caught back up to xisco and ryne who were having an epic battle for 3rd. I think we went 3 or 4 laps with them scrapping about 1.5- 2 seconds ahead of me. Xisco then made a mistake which led to us passing him, but he more than made up for it with his pit strategy. He pitted early and Im sure ryne and I decided to stay out as long as possible but it was a bad idea because once xisco came out of the pits he was 2-3 seconds faster than us on each sector. He was probably only 5 seconds behind us when we pitted. trimble probably suffered the most since he was really struggling with his tires and spun out a few times which led to me passing him and I went into the pits in 2nd place.
ryne, trimble and I pitted at the same time and I just got out in front of him. He passed me after a couple of laps and thats how it stayed until the end of the race.
Even though I finished 4th out of 5 racers, I think anyone could have finished second with proper pit strategy. I had a few good battles with ryne and xisco, and for a couple of laps with trimble. It was a lot of good, clean racing fun.
Highlights for me in this race:
1. Never spun out
2. Ran the 3rd fastest lap in the race.
3. Managed to keep my mistakes low (maybe a couple of big ones over 19 laps is great for my standard)
4. Exciting, but clean battles with xisco, ryne and trimble.
had a long day and actually fell asleep during the time the race took place haha..
