So bit late to the post race report party, better late than never though right?
Had a fun time with this one personally, doing my usual thing of basically winging it practice wise, barely getting in a handful of laps before jumping in the car for my stint (sorry not sorry
@Shawn Jacobs ). It wasn't all clean sailing however, as we had trouble switching from Jeremy to myself when my stint came at the end. Right as we were about to disconnect and rejoin as we had run out of options the game decided to finally let Jeremy select me for the driver swap all of a sudden. We had lost a good lap and a half from the issues, so we dropped to 9th as I started my stint.
Apart from one clumsy spin at the last corner and a hairy moment with a couple of GT's it was generally smooth sailing for me, had good pace so was able to get back to 7th by the end, very nearly getting the TDR guys in 6th, if only there had been an extra twenty minutes or so!
On traffic I think it was generally not too bad, the main thing that I think needs to be kept in mind is if you're a GT the key thing to remember when being lapped by the prototypes is to hold your line, let us get past you. The moment you try to get out of the way by going off line, backing off out of corners or anything like that is when incidents happen as we can't predict that as well as if you just keep your line. On the same token though, if a prototype has committed up your inside then 9 times out of 10 it's best to give them the space and let them go. Some guys in prototypes do like to do a cheeky dive bomb on GT's into corners, personally I don't like it and (hope) I didn't do it myself too much, but rather than turning in and causing contact it's generally best to just open up the corner and let them have it. Bare in mind I do race in a GT car over at VEC so I know how it is from experience in terms of being passed by prototypes etc. Had a couple of awkward and kind of pointless battles with P2's ahead position wise towards the end of the race, nothing major or particularly noteworthy really, just something I find a bit amusing as it just leads to both cars losing time for no real gain.
Ending on a positive note, (boy this turned into an essay and a half, swear it wasn't planned
) overall I did have a great time, even though I was going off only a few hours sleep
Big thanks to all the organizers for getting this series running and putting on such a fantastic show for round one! Have to say it's absolutely fantastic seeing
@Simon Smith back in the booth again, hopefully will be able to join him once again at some point this season as it's been far too long since we last were on comms together.
See you all for round two!