What a (set of) race(s)! That was great fun, once again
Got a few training laps in yesterday, and getting below 2:00, I was fairly happy, anything else would've to be today's work
Joining the server early, I got back up to pace again, but couldn't improve that much anymore - let alone be of any danger to
@Reggie Blain,
@Peter Ell (and later on,
@Matthias Klein) putting in
some lap times. Getting disconnected during the last few seconds of P2, I opted for race fuel while reconnecting into quals - so nothing to change.. I thought.. well.. halfway through my outlap, I noticed I might've not loaded my setup back up. So superpole on stock setup it was, what could possibly go wrong?
Actually, it went fairly okay and I might've lost 1.5-ish seconds and one or two places, but the setup wasn't that bad.
Race time came, onto the starting grid (with the right setup, again)! Had a fairly nice start into race #1, getting by
@Daniel Linder who didn't get off the line that well.
While I was struggling to find my rhythm throughout the first lap, Reggie, Peter, Matthias and
@Nelson Ullinskey started to bolt away. Fortunately, I got back to speed, didn't lose any positions and a small off from Nelson got me back into the game.
After some nice fighting, I got by on the straight and together, we approached the scene of a collision ahead
With Peter going sideways, Matthias couldn't quite avoid him anymore and another off on Peter's side got us past both of them.
Afterwards, I had quite a calm race as Peter dropped out soon afterwards and Nelson lost some time - Reggie in 1st place was out of reach,
although he had an off in the last turn at some point.
Starting from P7 in the second race, I quickly lost positions to the BMW's charging up from behind and one sub-par positioning going into a turn or another didn't help. I quickly regained a place after getting past
@Gundars Brigis, though.
With Matthias taking an offroad detour, I got behind
@Lars Hansen who put up a great battle - finally got past him and went on to close the gap
@Reggie Blain Snr.
Once I arrived, another green car going off got me past him - The hunt for Nelson was on! He had gained quite some seconds in the meantime, though, so it took a few laps. Meanwhile, Matthias got by both of us and was long gone when I finally reached Nelson's bumper.
Once more (or "as usual", really
), we had some grrrreat battling - all while Peter was lurking in P6, getting closer and closer. Though that might've actually helped as we got closer to Daniel in P3, as well - finally joining him in turn 1 of the last and 11th lap!
It wasn't until the last sector that the real action began, though - with Nelson taking a wider line to get closer to Daniel, the inside of "Bucine" opened up and I sneaked through.
With Daniel outbraking himself into the very last turn, P3 was mine to take! Awesome racing, thank you guys!
Thanks for racing, everyone - see you next time
EDIT: As it was (kind of) a topic on TS, for anyone looking to improve their line/braking/turns/driving in general, I'm gonna recommend both
emptybox's SimRacing 101 (you might wanna start at Ep. 7) playlist and the
iRacing driving school playlist once more - both helped me a lot when I first started out
