A limey blasting up the oval ranks? Nick, what would the Queen think?!
Just kidding, of course :wink: Gratz on the B!
I had another ripping Tour Mod race and I'm right behind you. Started 12th and saw quali times of 20.6X, 20.6X, 20.6X, 20.7X, 20.7X...I thought I was done for. My PB of 21.007 would have only been good enough for 9th, but still riding on a cloud of good Tour vibes, I figured I'd give it the old college try.
By lap 7 I made it to 10th with 8th and 9th battling door to door right in front of me. Coming out of T2, 8th touches the apron and pitches it sideways right in front of me. I kept my foot in it thinking he had it saved, but no. I can barely make out his front wheels through the cloud of smoke as he spins, but can see he's still full throttle trying to keep his car down out of the race line. I aim for his rear bumper assuming that by the time I get there he'll have powered out of the way...just as he thinks he's good to go and goes full lock on the brakes! I do just enough of a jerk to try to avoid him without driving straight into the outside wall, see I'm probably going to just barely clip him,...and watch as 9th hits him intead, spinning 8th out of my line as 9th goes up on 2 wheels and into the outside wall. I crank her back to the left now that it's open, hoping that 9th doesn't rebound back into my side, get all squirrely, save it, and continue on unscathed. Heart racing, palms sweating, top notch stuff
Just 2 laps after the restart, I'm running comfortably in 8th gently shadowing 7th when we get to T3 where 3rd, 4th and 5th dive in 3 wide. Cor blimey! The pickle in the middle is smoking the right front trying to stay of the high guy when the right front finally gains purchase, pitching him into a drift. He checks up and saves it, just to have the low guy check up too late and give him a knock. This pitches his rear out again, and just as he's about to save it...again...the low guy apparently has had enough and just drives right through him. 3rd spins low, 4th spins up into 6th, and I'm having Cole Trickle flashbacks. Looking ahead to see where I need to go, I don't notice that 7th has fully locked the binders right in front of me! I crank right as I close my eyes for impact...and the wheel doesn't jiggle! An instinctive quick crank back left pitches it sideways, I saw at the wheel, peddle the throttle, save it and look up,... no X. I was dead sure the game glitched and I drove through 7ths car, but replay showed I literally missed him by less than 2 inches. From the above view you can see just a sliver of track, like 4 pixels, between our wheels. Kudos to iR's collision detection, just superb
The last 80 laps were somewhat uneventful. I got caught up with trying to run with the .2 faster guys and raped my RF, which didn't allow the looseness I built into the set to reveal itself in later laps, and I can't drive a tight car properly. I settled into my steady on race pace and brought home a respectable 5th, on the lead lap, with no inc.
I just came into some RL money so hopefully can expand my stable of cars and tracks. 3.99 C class with 1 more race for MPR, hopefully with more tracks and a higher license I'll start seeing you guys in competition. Until then, happy racing