Woop. That was voflworthy. Slightly disappointing considering the potential I had for once, but I don't think it was meant to be...
Joined 15 mins early for some practice, but ended up distracted through phone calls, 'guests' etc. and only actually managed to get 2 full laps in the whole 55 minutes of practice. Luckily I had previous experience of Zolder and Peter's nifty setup :thumb:. I managed a somewhat surprising 2nd place in quali :th_o:. Used the last few laps to try to work out the fuel usage
The race started well, was actually challenging for first place for the first couple of laps, wheras normally I just happen to be gifted the lead for a few seconds through someone else's misfortune, but disaster struck very early when I oversteered off the chicane. When I pulled off I noticed my pit limiter was on - I'm not sure which order events occured in but at some point I knocked the limiter which is a pretty dangerous thing to do in GTL...
Recovered a few places down and still had enough pace to make up most of the places. Pitted fairly late from second place behind Peter, came out in 4th, but fell for that practical joke that they decided to leave in the game and received a stop n' go for speeding in the pits. Think I was around 7th after the SNG and started to make up a couple of places. Caught up to Stuart and had a good race until I managed to repeat my first mistake of the race, except without the limiter as an excuse. I guess just having someone directly in front made me natuarally turn in slightly early before the car was stable.
Lost concentration slightly after that, but got past Luc when he visited the grass.
Then my fuel light started to flash.
Ironically I think paying too much attention to my fuel cause me to come off the track and waste even more - I probably would have finished under my own power but instead I lost both the places from Luc and Stuart. Then the temptation to race instead of short shift got the better of me and I tried to keep up, until I started to hear it cutting out and I had to drop right back. Ran out of fuel on the grid and couldn't cross the line, but Gaynall was nice enough to help me over the line for 7th place :rofl:
Thanks for the event, was one of my favourites I think despite the 2 or 3 silly mistakes that cost me a lot
Also thanks to Peter as the setup felt very good. I was quite happy having -0.4 up on my best time of 57.3 but had to slow down naturally having caught up to the person in front