Well, what can I say? That truly exceeded my expectations in terms of fun and thank you to all the regulars for welcoming us noobs
I was very anxious beforehand but I need not have been, you were all great. I was even brave enough to make a cameo on voice chat which I try to avoid like the plague as I have a slight speech impediment from a mini-stroke a few years back. I'm so glad I did it as yesterday I had to PM Han to say I wouldn't be there due to work commitments but I got home in time. Hopefully I don't get fired this morning.
That track is a baptism of fire though. When I first signed up and downloaded the track I headed out into practice and just said to myself "nope"
If you stick with it though it actually really grows on you, I'll be using it again. I think it worked really well with the Mazda too. My pace improved throughout the past three days, nothing spectacular but at least I didn't put on the clown show I worried I might. When running with other cars I could see immediately that the long left hander followed by the slight right handed incline was killing me compared to everyone else. I always had to lift going up the hill as if I tried to go flat I would hit the same bump and spin, no confidence there at all.
Two incidents unfortunately. Into T1 on lap 2 I was running very high up the field due to the lap 1 carnage
I had elegantly skipped through it haha. However, into T1 on lap 2 I made contact with someone, not sure who, and I got bogged down in the grass on the inside and had to wait for a gap to come back on. I'm not really sure what happened, I'll view the replay later, but it's possible it was my fault. it didn't feel like it in the car at the time but it never does, does it?
Then, I had some good racing with Simon, Raul and a couple of others. Three in front began to battle and I was closing in as they lost time but I had a rush of excitement nosebleed and lost control at the top of the hill leading into the S bend losing a number of places and a chunk of time.
The majority of the rest of the race was pretty lonely until I had a super fun battle with
@RS242 for a few laps near the end, just grabbing the position at the death. Ricardo, I did wonder why you were suddenly so slow at that point and now when I read about your struggles I can see why. I enjoyed it though, it got pretty close at times but never any danger of contact.
So many words, can you tell I'm excited? This is the first time I have ever done anything but hot lap in Assetto Corsa and I've never even driven a race against the AI, AC was just never my sim but I'm finding some appreciation for it now (bit late eh?) - I even had to go and buy some DLC to play last night
Also, it's the first time I've done anything more than sprint races in MP. I had overlooked the 60 min race, now that was a new experience for me haha
I'll be back for more and when I've done a few of these I'll look to hop into some of the rF2 and AMS2 stuff. I really don't have time for this but I'm single so it'll be fine. Looks like it will probably stay that way too
