Nippon: Phillip Island

Well, started a lowly 19th, spun a lot (about 4 times), managed a few decent laps and a little battle with Neil, then had my first ever Disco-schmisco from an R2P race in over a year. bit sucky that.

What a load of crap. Got cut up at the start in turn 1 by a certain 05 Motorsports driver, which caused me to run wide and then that was that. Pitted and came out last I think, and going nowhere fast with lasting aero damage.

The only really good thing was a great battle with Soco...for 18th place.

I am really killing my knees this week...

Stupid me, spun at the first hairpin.

You guys are quite some fun to race with. A lot of people gave me some sweet, tough and clean fights for position.

I noticed I ran a lot more wing than most people. I trailed Jan by at least 10-12 mph on the straight.

I was sitting behind Jan, thinking about hmmm how am I going to set him up, when all of a sudden Jan has a wheel off exiting Turn 1 at full throttle, and it all went pear-shaped for him. He kept if off the wall, but this allowed me to open a gap which never got closed.

Looking forward to the next event.

(This is a very photogenic series.)

Had quite possibly my worst ever qualifying. Ended up down in 16th.

I made up 10 positions by the end of lap 1, couldnt believe it. Didnt make a single overtaking move in the whole race and finished 4th, 7 secs behind Jan in 3rd place. I was aiming to be consistent and not push too hard and it paid off.

Great racing guys, really enjoying this series :D

If anyone has any problems drop me a PM and I'll look into it.

Nice qual, awful start but I managed to save it (dunno how).
Midrace I spun because I lost concentration calculating and fearing that my fuel was not enough to finish the race!!
So I reduced the boost to the minimum and went into some interesting battles, my only aim was to get tows and go 3/4 of throttle to save fuel on the straights waiting for overtakes in the last laps. Then at -10minutes to the end I got punted in the 2nd sector hairpin and my rear was destroyed, results? all fast turns at 50% throttle and fighting with the wheel to keep a decent line. Those last 10 minutes were a complete pain in the azz, and I'm wondering if there are the conditions to ask for penalize that driver.

Blooming 'eck, that was tough.

Just one spin at the final hairpin early on that cost me a few seconds; other than that I was pretty consistent. Just not fast enough (and not enough wrecks ahead). So no points. But delighted to get a finish!

BTW, launch control seems a bit pointless, 'cos you can't assume everyone will use it. I started at the back and if I'd used it when the green light came on I'd have gone straight into the rear of the car in front. Thankfully, I didn't (I knew what to expect after the Estoril race), waited a few seconds, and then made my start, managing to gain several positions by T1 just by driving past cars that had spun, etc.

Pressed my LC button and for some reason the car jumped into first gear!! Drive through penalty and race ruined . mananged to claw back to 11th .

grats to podium.

Damn, Tristan made up 17 spots on laps 9-10!!!!!

Haha, that'd be cool, sadly it didnt happen :p He was warping in and out of the game a lot. It kept saying that I'd moved up a position then when I crossed the line it corrected itself. Only started happening after he got past me.

Glad it wasn't just my PC then! Game was warping quite a bit too.