Well these races were testimony that racing the Bosses is ALWAYS good fun. Because I had great fun again,
even here. I'll admit to
hating the track after my first practice laps.. Later on did grow on me more, although it'll never make my alltime favs list.
After P1 could manage decent laptimes, even managed P5 in Q1. R1 start was very good, managed to avoid unfortunate Rossco's car,
...which allowed Roland to close a bit, made one mistake just after that when I tried to take the racing line I squeezed Roland into the wall a little, sorry but I had no idea you were so close..
NP, we were both fine there, later in that same lap I had Rickard push me around
and Hans trying to board my car at the same point
But I've seen worse, and most likely have done worse as well in the past..
So after lap 1 I was in 8th from 3rd, got back up to 6th, chasing Jacob and Stuart for a while, but especially after last week I felt avoiding contact at all cost was most important so finished 6th. And had some GREAT fun along the way!
Started R2 as 6th, got into 3rd after L1, and even into the lead for about 100m after the HUGE Carlos-David clash:eek: until Stuart took over. Was VERY lucky there as I missed first Davids and then Carlos' car by mere inches..
Followed Stuart around for quite a while until a small slide allowed Ross to get by.
Chased them, and then back to 2nd as Stuart had a small off. Gave everything I could an more trying to keep up with Ross, lapping quite a lot faster than I could consistently do before so that had to go wrong, and it did
.. after a nice 180° under braking I had to let Bob, Knut, Jacob and Rickard by. Back to 6th until in L13 another spin into the grass let 3 more people by so eventually finished 9th.
But again, some GREAT fun.. so what's so bad about this track really??
TBH I'm not sure, apart from being unable to drive the same racing line for just 2 laps in a row, which probably has to do with the wide open nature of this track. As Stuart promised, it was certainly somthing completely different from last week..
Grats to Neil and Ross, the other podium boys, and thanks to Stuart, RD and everyone present.
..looking at the replay the car (and a couple of others) are totally invisible and not selectable! ..
Just in case you haven't tried this already, usually shutting down and restaring GTL takes care of the missing-cars-in-replays issue.
