Valencia GTC

One driver DQ'd ... not signed up for event.

Fun race!

Grats to Barry for the win and big grats to Mark for the championship.

Started 4th and soon had Steve B pushing me hard but at the same time i was hanging on to Milan and Mark. After several laps i noticed the behind me was no longer Steve and it wasn't too long before i got punted as i braked into the final corner which cost me about 10 secs. Thanks :/

Done 2 stops changing both tyres each time as i didnt want any inbalance in the handling.

I ran with hard/hard which i was reasonably happy with but i see someone hast just posted in the post Euro race that he went with soft/meds?

Its been good racing with ya's in this series :)

After the afternoon server debacle that once again made me wish I had gone to work I wasn't too upbeat about this one.

Suprisingly there were no turn one shenanigans. Unfortunately turn two made up for it. :) I made it through that and was in the top ten for about 20 seconds until I got punted. No worries.

Late in the race I danced back and forth with Mark late int he race but overcooked the turn going in the back straight and lost him. At that point my tires were shot and finishing 13th was fine by me.

Congrats to Barry and Mark!!

One last thing - TO THE GUY THAT WAS RIDING YOUR BRAKES THE WHOLE TIME: CUT IT OUT %(*&(*&$!

Brian, that wasn't me. That was Eddy behind you in the early going the whole time until he got into you. As for me, I started from 6th, but got punted from behind in T4 on the opening lap, and by the time I got out of the kitty litter I was in last place (15th) by a good way. Hint to some of the newer drivers; best to chill out a little on the opening lap until you get some heat in the tires - it's easy to get caught out by cold tires and a heavy fuel load. Give it a lap, let the grip come in and then go after it. End result will almost always be better - for all.

Got back underway and was in chase mode from there, without a lot of close racing since by the time I made some ground everyone was strung out a bit. Didn't have great pace since I'd only entered at the last minute without any practice, but was back into reasonably decent position by my 1st stop. I took rears only, and the stop went pretty well which is rare for me. That set me up for a decent finish, but then I made two critical mistakes on my second stop for fronts.

First, I went a lap long between stops, meaning my tire wear balance was too skewed towards front grip late, meaning I had a lot of oversteer and had to softpedal it into and off the corners - ended up giving it a click more front brake bias every lap till the end to keep it from spinning on the brakes. Second and more importantly, when I hit the limiter button I must not have hit it fully, as it didn't engage and I got a speeding penalty, forcing me to do a D-T the next lap. That killed any hope of a decent result, so I just cruised it around trying not to go off for the final stint.

'Grats to Barry on the win, and to Mark and Can Am for taking the series title - well done, guys!

@Michael- He may not be aware of his brake lights being on. If he is using a Momo wheel they have a habit of dragging the brake. You have to reset them alot.

That DQ for not signing up was me Tim. I was signed up but could not get in the event, kept getting kicked for “Possible Cheat”. So I unregistered from the event as to not take up a spot. Shortly after I did that I thought it might be the GT Legends terrain patch. So I uninstalled the Terrain patch and tried to get in and it worked. It was then to late to register for the event. Sorry my bad.