Phew. That was awesome!
I'd been in contact with Christian Michel in advance of the race, who was keeping me in the knowledge of what his lap times were. And he was consistently quicker than me. So every time I beat his time, I'd rush on here to brag to him about that, only to find he'd gone quicker again anyway
We appeared to go in slightly different setup directions. I think he'd run with front downforce on 2 and the rear balanced, while I was on front 1 rear 1. That seemed to work better for me, despite what I lost in the Porsche curves. But this really showed on the long straights, where I seemed to have a slightly higher 'terminal velocity' on the straights (my top speed during the evening was 330.1kph). The realtime splits showed I was quicker here, but ultimately not enough to make the lap times.
The minimum downforce setting balance isn't so good. It understeers way too much during fast corners. I tried to offset this mechanically, but by the time I'd decided to finalize my setup, I was already on minimum front springs & ARB. I might be able to do more to improve this, and will look into it if/when we do this again.
This was my first time racing with Christian too... At least, not counting RC cars
It was quite an experience trying to hold him back. His attacks for position are absolutely relentless, and with him in Pursuit, I couldn't afford to give an inch. Unfortunately, not even for GTs. I don't feel I did anything wrong during my incidents here, but I did see a lot of incidents... It must be said, I am the common element between a whole bunch of incidents
I'm just grateful for the low damage levels we raced with. Let us get away with a lot, and saved some of us from DNFs I'm sure.
It was great fun racing with you
@Christian Michel. Was unfortunate about the penalty, but I hope we can do this again soon.
Congrats
@Aleksi Kivelä on the GT win, and well done to everyone who finished this race. It was a long, tiring race, but we made it!
And
@Davy Lauwereys I didn't see your skin either myself. I'm sure I had skin sharing enabled, but I thought it was odd to see you in a red Ferrari today instead of the green Patron Highcroft colours you had at Silverstone.