Well guys, what can I say. Another brilliant evening. Thank you all so much for making this event so successful again.
I had a fantastic time, in spite of finishing last. An incident at the start, into the first corner, resulted in me losing my splitter, and me saying a few bad words - sorry @
Calum McLure, I didn't have enough time to avoid you - which was OK for a while, but the understeer eventually became unbearable: thankfully my pitstop for this wasn't long, and I was able to rejoin the race only having lost a couple of places. Then I got into a great battle with Theo. We were going at it for a few laps, with some traffic (yup, the cars ahead were already starting to pass), and then in the final corner I watched Theo slide, and wasn't paying attention to my own car sliding; I spun, with no damage, but lost quite a bit of time, and shouted a very bad word again over TS.
The anger got to me a bit, so I put my foot down, and clipped the grass under braking into the chicane; I hit the wall, caused quite a bit of damage this time, shouted another bad word, and crawled back to the pits for a two and a half minute stop.
This put me at the back, and at least one lap behind everyone. Nonetheless, I had a great time after this: with no pressure, sliding the car through the corners, being a bit more daring with the brakes and throttle - I had nothing to lose. And, with all of this, I still only managed to finish the race with 3L of fuel… it was mighty close to say the least.
Few quick things:
Such a shame your engine blew up again @
Stefan Woudenberg, though you certainly provided us with some comedy on TS.
Let's hope you have better luck next time.
A note to some guys, who might need to reread the RD rules of conduct when racing before next time. As much as we appreciate the passion, this is only a club race, and some were taking so seriously that they became quite aggressive, and had a few collisions with other cars. Now, whether this was on purpose or not I don't know, but you need to calm down a little as you are affecting the race of other people. This is causing them to leave the server because they are no longer enjoying themselves and just becoming frustrated. So please, before the next race, just take a chill pill, don't take it so seriously, and enjoy the race.
Also please listen to the above provided: the formation lap and first lap incidents, both going into the first corner, shouldn't have happened, and they wouldn't have happened if the given advice was adhered to.
So just keep your eye out for this information, and take note of it, as it is for the sake of your own enjoyment as well as others. Cheers. Rant over. Sorry I had to do that.
And finally, apologies for running over time (there was a late issue related to the event that we needed to resolve before starting) and the late information about changing cars if you were affected by the problem that meant your pitbox was out in the final corner of the track. I was blissfully unaware of this issue before yesterday; I didn't encounter the problem during testing, and so the information came quite late. So sorry you couldn't choose the Porsche @
Frederic Schornstein, but it didn't look like the Ferrari caused you any problems anyway!
Before the next race we'll be sure to check that this doesn't occur again.
And, on the point of the next race, this will once again be held in 2 week's time (Saturday, 5th April), this time at the famous… wait for it - Autodromo di Monza! Keep your eyes peeled for more information coming soon, and also for the promo video from the first race.
Thank you very much again guys. Hope you all had as much fun as I did. Speak to you all again soon.
