Well this was our first proper attempt at a 24 hour event and i must say i really enjoyed the experience. My race stints didn't go without its problems i had a problem with some GTs not pulling over and closing the door when i tried to overtake them. I also had the Brems Lambo holding me up several times which infuriated me. Car was lacking power which i was baffled as Ben was getting max speed on the straights and i was getting 179mph. Couple of times i lost the nose one or two of them getting clipped by GTs not using their mirrors. Whilst Taner was doing his stint i had a look at my pedal problems and found them a bit dusty so cleaned them out. Find out Taner had a problem with his too so took over while he sorted his. I was happy to say i was getting max speeds back and my lap times improved. On my second stint the unfortunate happened the server crashed. This was around 8 - 9pm my time BST and this was the start of my major problems. We all got called out as normal and line up on the safety car. As it was dark i didn't see the Aston Martin GT1 car of UK - NL Racing going slow and i nearly rear ended him. Then i nearly ran into a red Corvette in the line and hit the brakes hard and it must of been a cigarette paper width away from his bumper. Then my FPS was dropping as 50+ cars were called out and it dropped to 4 which was really low so i had to pull off the track and let people go before it sorted itself out. I got going and coming up to the last complex of corners before the pitstraight i went to go pass a Porsche GT who shut the door and took my nose off the car. Luckily i was close to pits so dive in and got the stop underway. For some strange reason the car went straight into the pits and i got a DQ and couldn't continue. Numerous times i tried to get going but the drive wasn't showing. After loads of tries the race control advised to get another driver to rejoin. After a frantic call to Ben i dragged him out of bed to do a lap and clear my DQ. After that all was good and lowering my tire pressures by 3 i was in autopilot mode and lapping comfortably but the damage was done i had incurred 2 time penalties and was 20 something laps down.
All in all despite the problems all the drivers drove fantastically well Ben did well to get us some laps back towards the end and you had a great first stint from the start running as high as 4th. Greg and the GT guys did really well too and a massive thanks for Darien for keeping things going smoothly and keeping the moral up.
Thankyou everyone again in the team and RDLMS series and for everyone who competed.
For a laugh here a picture my missus took on the Sunday after the race. 24 hours not alot of sleep hot sunny day of 28c swimming in the morning plus a roast dinner = tired lol. The bib was extra i was probably dribbling like an idiot after that event lol
All in all despite the problems all the drivers drove fantastically well Ben did well to get us some laps back towards the end and you had a great first stint from the start running as high as 4th. Greg and the GT guys did really well too and a massive thanks for Darien for keeping things going smoothly and keeping the moral up.
Thankyou everyone again in the team and RDLMS series and for everyone who competed.
For a laugh here a picture my missus took on the Sunday after the race. 24 hours not alot of sleep hot sunny day of 28c swimming in the morning plus a roast dinner = tired lol. The bib was extra i was probably dribbling like an idiot after that event lol