Once again I have wasted a couple of hours of my life to race with some very good, clean individuals mixed in with a bunch of complete idiots. I am now going to have to spend my afternoon making videos of all the incidents I had inflicted on me. I'll also make a video of how to drive behind someone because some people haven't a clue.
Qualifying was good. Just about matched my best offline time to nab 1st from Dan
Wasn't much of an advantage though as the grid is just like the one at Oulton Park so I was on the outside with Dan right next to me :frown:
Got a good start so I could take it nice and easy through T1/2. From there I was driving nice and carefully, taking smooth lines and not braking too hard. I was a bit slow through the last section so the pack kept closing up down the straight but never close enough to cause me massive problems. After a few laps Miguel was at the front of the pack and he kept coming real close down the straight. I always went for the inside line into T2 so he couldn't pass. For some reason he kept hitting me, mainly through T2 and on lap 5 I think it was he hit me three times through T2 and on lap 6 he punted me across the grass so I went from 1st to 4th. From there I had a Honda in front of me. I worked out he was being lapped but for some unknown reason he wouldn't get out of my way so I ended up tapping him, having to wait and losing touch with the leaders.
My tyre saving tactics paid off in the pitstops. I gained ~8 seconds on the leaders to get up into 3rd, around 4 seconds behind 1st. I was following Marius when he past a back-marker. That guy then smashed into me, breaking my suspension and sending me down to 6th behind Paul. I followed him to the end but I couldn't pass. There were a few hairy moments through the corkscrew where he went wide and I had to hit the brakes but it was good until the end.
Race 2, 3rd and on the bloomin outside again. Good start though and I was up into 2nd by T1. Was following 1st closely and in the last section I got a better exit so had an overlap into T1. I broke a little early to see what he would do and as he used a slightly wide line I went for the inside into T1 to apply pressure into T2/3. Instead I got hit because I think the other guy spun into me and then about a foot off the racing line my right front got hit by a Seat breaking my suspension. I was in 5th now I think and losing touch with the leaders as my car felt terrible. On lap 8 I pitted for tyres and repairs and started putting some low 1:23s down. I somehow leap-frogged Matt and was maybe pushing for a podium when a Seat and BMW had a bit of a hoo-hah into T1 and the Seat just decided to park it on the racing line in T1 to wait and I went straight into him totalling my car for a DNF.
My way of thinking on public servers is that all Seat drivers are idiots, shame that a few individuals on here like to keep that reputation going
