Hey Guys!
Thanks for that great race yesterday, even though i had plenty of problems to solve before the race.
At the end of the training session as we tried to do driverswaps i wanted restart the game without plugins to check if that's causing our problems with driverswaps. the main problem was now: rFactor2.exe has stopped working... So i ended up deleting and reinstalling rfactor 2 and the mods because every other atempt to solve the problem failed. at the end of the qualy i was just stressed and did a 2:05 with raintires (ups wrong setup
) so i ended up 23rd and i was knowing possibly i have to drive that race on my own.
the start went pretty well. i was trying to be as careful as it's possible to avaoid crashes and was able to overtake 2 guys in the first few corners. after that i was able to find a good pace and was continously closing the gap to the guys in front of me. as the rain started the car was still pretty nice to drive even though i might missed the optimal point to change tires. with wet tires and a full fuel tank i was able to close another gap and overtaking some more people.
As the track was drying i was getting back to my pace. I did some more nice laps but in some laps i had really heavy problems with the car understeering in the esses... i just had to take the straight route through there 2 times and was spinning 2 times in the whole race. On every other lap the car was just fine...
As the race went on and i was on P12 i started to make some mistakes because i was pushing like hell. as the "lone survivor" of our team i wanted to let the results look as good as they can be...
i was even in front of Kristian Puhov, who unfortunately got DQed.. But after some mistakes and a stop and go penalty he was gone... over one minute in front of me...
So i tried to push harder which resulted in closing the gap from 1.10 min to 55 seconds which i was holding for a long time almost until the end...
So all in all Great race even though i wasn't prepared for this distance. it was pretty hard. I could even say "what? me drive? oh hell no, i'm ****ed up!"
Cheers
Rico
btw: here is the stream of the race with just my cockpit perspective and livetiming for everybody who wants to see the race out of my car
(with exclusive teamradio
)
Edit: if the embedded video doesn't work just try to click on the name of it on top of it it will take you to the youtube page for me it works there (youtube is still working on it... therefore no 1080p yet)