This was a ton of fun, these Skylines were great, pretty tricky to handle on the edge, but damned fast. Best of all, I had some really close, clean racing.
Nurburgring GP: Not really my favourite track but a good test for these Nissan's that can bite you if you push too hard. Qualified P5. Got a reasonable start but Piotr fishtailed across track and hit Steven in front of me, allowing Amir to jump all of us. I quickly had Gary harrassing my tail while I was planning how to attack Amir. Gary slipped past at the hairpin, but immediately spun. A bit later Stuart then Amir spun off, giving me P2, but with Steven right on my hammer now. I botched up the final chicane, blocking Steven a bit
sorry: ) and bunching us up with Gary and Stuart. The four of us had some great racing for many laps, until Steven unfortunately over-cooked it into the wall, and then Stu dropped back. I tried to hang on to Gary but couldn't close the 2 to 3 sec gap, and finished P3.
Grats to Sam who really blitzed us all.
Rouen: Great track, and very high speed in these Skylines. I made a huge mess of Qualy with plenty of spins, and ended up starting P7.
I managed to weave my way through a messy first few turns to exit that nasty hairpin in P3. That gave me a good view of the huge battle for the lead between Sam and Gary, they were having a ding dong scrap. :woot2:
Sadly, Sam had a rare but very high speed crash. Soon I had Knut gaining quickly, he was flying through the field. :high5: My first thought was to let him pass easily, but then thought "Nah, you can earn it". We had a great battle for many laps, nose to tail, side by side, lots of drafting, and no touches, great stuff Knut. :wink: Knut's speed eventually got him past me and Stuart joined to make it a threesome. Unfortunately, Stu locked up into the deadly hairpin and tagged me (no problems Stu ) letting Knut get away from us. My tyres then went off badly, and I spun again letting Stu by. With my tyres pretty second hand, I backed off to finish P4.
Grats to Gary for the win, and WD to Knut and Stu for the podium.
Great racing all, good to see a good roll up too. Stu, I'd love to see more events in the Skylines, I think they are great, they certainly fit the GTL era and provide something a little different in terms of handling. :rockon: