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Room to open around 5 min late, just got on, need to get my Lotus (thanks Fox!) specced.
Huh the one I sent wrong then???
Room to open around 5 min late, just got on, need to get my Lotus (thanks Fox!) specced.
Huh the one I sent wrong then???![]()
Was it Fox? Can't remember
It was an orange Evora, thanks to whoever the hell it was
About to open up.
Yeah orange chrome that was me ya half wit, bet your great with the Christmas thank you letters.![]()
Is golfer a regular?
He needs a talking to if he's going to continue racing with us.
Furi, you do realise there are now 5 Ferrari 458's in the field.
Was it not four cars per manufacturer?
After spending most of Saturday in bed with a fever, decided to give it a try anyway and popped an Aspirin, which got me in shape enough for a drive.
Start was ok, and even the 35% surface water in the beginning didn't bother me that much (I had changed in the last second from wets to slicks, because the rain had stopped), only to make a mistake going into the first Lesmo, because I looked in the mirror instead of at my braking point, and therefore went wide. Joined again in last place, 13 seconds behind.
First stint developed into a nice fight with Yeratel for pretty much the whole duration. Yeratel in the Ferrari having the advantage on braking and in corners, and me more on the straights. I didn't really know who of us was really faster, because it was clear none of us would be able to break away. We were 5th and 6th and that point, the gap to the leaders staying the same all the time. Yera then once missed his braking point into the 1st chicane and that cost him a couple of seconds, which was enough to get him out of my slipstream. We both pitted a couple of laps apart, but the gap stayed.
1600 had taken the lead on what I thought was a 1-stopper, but I had missed the fact that he had pitted earlier. So, when he pitted at 2:01 on the race timer I thought it was going to be close for him. After that, I managed to bring down the 14 second gap of the leaders with a string of 52's until they started pitting one by one. I then also went into the pits, but took on a little too much fuel, which, additionally to the Aston needing more fuel to begin with, dropped me back to the same 14 seconds (estimate, because 1600 was in the lead) again. Furi seemed to have lost some time somewhere though, because he was nowhere to be seen. I managed to get a little closer, but not much (being pushed by Yeratel being not far behind), and when 1600 ran out of fuel 2 laps from the end, I got up in 3rd. Finished about 9(?) seconds behind.
Quite happy, considering I should have been in bed.![]()
I assume I don't get any points even though the OP doesn't say anything about DNF's?
snowgtThat's weird arithmetics. Both Smuffy and me have a win and a 3rd, but he's ahead in the Pro Cup, because there was an Amateur-driver (from WRS Div 1 Gold) between me and him in the first race. Go figure.
Well, overall is what counts. Ferrari should have the edge though for the rest of the tracks.
Questions still open:
- Which Fuji course will be used on Saturday?
- Spec changes...?