Well, I couldn't have given myself a bigger mountain to climb.
Had an alright setup for this track, but not enough knowledge of the track itself, lesson learned there.
Formation lap was a new thing for me, and some people a few places infront of me were doing some strange things, haven't looked at the replay yet so won't say anymore, other than the fact that, some people didn't stick to the 60MPH limit it seemed.
After that, the first few laps weren't too bad, just wanting to keep my car pointing in the right direction. Main thing I was doing was letting some people through who were obviously faster than me, myself not looking to actually race for posistions at the start.
After a handful of laps, I then unfortunatly damage my suspension, and then my car felt pretty bad, and instead of jumping into the pits and fixing it, I stay out for another 5 - 10 laps maybe, bad mistake. After another few off track exscurtions, I decide to pit for repairs and tyres.
After stop, I'm roughly 1:45 down on Norman Bruce and Dennis Phelan, two people I was determined to catch.
After taking the lead down to under 30 secs, I puncture my left front, with my mentallity changed from Captain slow to do or die after the stop, I'm forced to stop again.
But even though, I was still confident I could catch and have a good race with Norman and Dennis.
The roughly on lap 35, Dennis is off in sector two with smoke billowing out of his Corvette C6, and I'm thinking to myself, "YES, YES," (no hard feelings) now only a minute behind Norman's C6, that I WILL catch him easily now. (Amazinly, Dennis' car was still running and he got it back to the pits for repair a few laps later).
Only problem was that to have a realistic chance of racing him, I could only make one more stop, so my tyres currently around 80% needed to do another 25 laps.
After another 2 laps, the gap is comming down healthly, but comming out of the 3rd corner, I put my foot down too early and spin into the wall. At this point, my saleen had already taken a fair beating, and this bump (quite literly, wasn't that fast of an accident) my car had had enough and I got a DNF.
Such a shame really, because after my first stint, I was really riled up to catch Norman and Dennis, and was gaining on them atleast around a second or two a lap on average.
I have to say sorry to Carl Middleton for the spin I caused you, had newer tyres on and the thought that you were still on older tyres just popped into my head as I braked but it was too late. Sorry man.
Also feel the need to say sorry to Mikael Larsson for not really letting you by properly at one point, which thankfully didn't escalate into an accident.
Some great little fights have been going on while typing this and I hope to be in some "For Position" battles next time one of these events comes up. One thing for sure is, this event will be first priority over any other events I'm doing. Also hope its at a track I know in real life. :wink:
Can't wait for the next one, see ya all soon.
