Cheers for a decent race.
First of all, I want to help our dear commentator, for when he inevitably needs to read my name on pole position.
translate.google.com -> English, type "Steensnes" and hit "listen"
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Right, now that that, cocky, arse comment is sorted.:
Nice race.
@LeSunTzu kept me honest for the entirety of the race. Whenever I thought I pulled out a little bit on him, I encountered stuff on track that would cost me several seconds. I'm sure it was the same for him, but it kept the pressure on in an otherwise uneventful race.
This game keeps impressing me, just as much as it's a stinky pile of
. I've not had too many technical issues, but there are def still a lot of oddities and QoL improvements to be made. But basicaly, this is the very first sim I've ever had to take care of my tyres the way I have to here. Especially Brands Hatch is very punishing in this regard. The car will let you abuse it, and you can post really quick times by abusing the curbs and track limits. But on a long run, it can ruin your tyres, cause pressure drops and ultimately punctures.
I didn't mess too much with the pressures before the race, and when the temperature was suddenly a bunch lower than it had been in practice, I got cought out a bit. My right hand side tyres were having a hard time and dropping pretty low. Especially my right rear was really getting screwed by some of the lines I take over the curbs. It was very apparent from lap to lap, if I'd been too aggressive, it'd loose pressure.
For quite some laps I was nursing the right rear with 23 PSI. But then I really hit a big bump and it instantly dropped .5 PSI. And from there on it just dropped a lot. The next lap I was already at 22.0. While I was wondering if I should pit, the tyre just kept dropping in pressure, and I jumped to the pit the following lap, with a pressure of 21.3 on the RR. Not sure how far off I was from a full blown puncture, but I'm pretty sure I was already experiencing a slow one.
For the pitstop I had upped the pressures on all the tyres. Especially the right hand side I went up 1.5PSI cold pressure. For the 2nd stint I had no more issues with very low pressures, although my tyres did still drop off over 2 PSI all around, from start till end of the 2nd stint.
The balance wasn't really one where I felt like I could push a lot. At the end of the day, brands is a confidence track. Any mistake just punishes you SO hard here. A wheel of in the grass at the wrong time, and you're done. So nursing for a lot of the race, but still getting pressured from Jeff. Very interessting race from that point of view. Not sure I'm a fan of the Audi at this track though
Cheers everyone for a decent race - thanks for putting it on
@Daniel Monteiro , and cheers for the stream
@Paul Glover.
