Gots to say - man alive that was chucklesome! :good:
Firstly whoever was the evil swine on Teamspeak who kept shouting "LEWIS!" everytime their Jag went a bit doolally (Kay, I'm looking at you), Respeck! - very, very funny. :good:
I suddenly realised that Gary in the grey Jag was driving the Withnail & I car.
I kept wanting to shout "Scrubbers!" or "Ponce!" but feared that no-one would get the reference and have me locked up. By the way, add this to your favourites, link fans -
www.imcdb.org - the internet movie car database.
OK - so, to the night.
Picked 2 relatively strange cars to me again - The Mini & The Porsche 906. I knew the Mini better than the Porsche because of the offline game, but the Mini got left behind failry quickly because of the nature of the progress in the offline game challenges. That, I now know, was a mistake. Both were very good fun, and I'm finding that the more I poke about in GTL and the less I'm concerned about winning, the more fun I'm having. Only raced a few times online with GTL, but these last couple of races where the emphasis was on trying stuff out, have been a real hoot.
So, race1: From the grid and the results, it looked like the Cortina was the car to have, I think I quallied 4th or 5th, with nothing but Lotii ahead of me. Was chuffed with a PB in quali. Had a decent, if more than a touch smokey, start, and kept about 4th - again, nothing but Lotii ahead of me. Safely navigated the braking zone at the end of the straight, got round the croc pond with my tootsies still dry, but then tapped David Cuthill going into the magnetic barrier bit at the back of the pond. Sorry again David - I waited for David to repass, while a few others took the opportunity to dart past as well, ended up around 10th after that, as per the rules I thought of that as my punishment. So started the long trek back up the places, aided and abetted by the occasional shouts of "LEWIS! Someone's wrecked my Jag!" over TS.
I regained back up to about 5th I think, closing on David again, but that Cortina is too damn fast for me to close up completely, whenever David had a little moment, once he was back on track and pointing the right way, he was gone.
Race 2: first time in anger with the 906, not a car I've ever really had a go at offline, due to it's exorbitant pricing. Decided to give it a whirl this week, and I'm glad I did, it's a lovely little number, not as happy being thrown about as some of the other GTC76's, you've got to drive it fairly clean. Well, I did my best times when driving it clean like a racing car rather than a touring car hooligan, at least. Quallied about 4th or so again held that for most of the race, moving up to 3rd when someone had some Capri based turmoil - Marc closed right up on me in the Escort, only to have occasional issues and drop back again, thought I'd done enough for a podium, but on the penultimate lap, I could see Hans in the BMW having a bit of a problem, I slowed to try and avoid, but locked my brakes and decided to trim the verges, allowing Marc through for 3rd, and I couldn't ctahc him on the last lap.
Again - a proper hoot, really good fun - these "places don't matter" events are the bestest. The racings just as good, but there's no nastiness
Big thanks to Warren for organising, and RD for hosting as ususal - Can't wait to see what's next for GTL (although my sources spotted that Cadwell for GTL has been uploaded recently.... :spy
