Alright, heres my official take on the race.
Was absolutely stoked with my Qualifying time. Had only managed 1:42s in Time Trial, and in pre race practice I couldnt seem to get below 1:44s, I was blown away when I nailed a 1:40.489 early on in the session. I even tried to get on track first so I could at least set the fastest time, and thought id done so, but about 3 corners from the end of the lap, it flashed up someone had the fastest lap, so i missed that opportunity. Only issue I had with it was that I forgot to record from the start. Only realised when I double tapped the share button to stop the recording and saw it start recording instead. Tried to put in another few laps to better it, but didnt come close.
The race itself was a pretty big disappointment. To start, I forgot to record AGAIN untill the second lap.. I was actually really enjoying it. I had people in front and behind for a while and was actually enjoying the attempt to catch those in front of me rather than just circling alone knowing I wasnt going to be near anyone. When I realised there was a Hamilton and a Hulkenberg on the track, I figured something had happened to someone and I was actually in with a chance of not only finishing on the lead lap, but also a big chance of a top 10 finish. Safety cars kept bringing me back to the pack and made me feel like I was in the fight. Had some issues with the AI cars along the way (i'll post some video below) and then the game froze up on me under safety car on lap 40. Over an hour of racing to end in mechanical failure was tough. Knowing im not real talented at this game, I set goals of just finishing. For my first DNF to not be because I crashed is the most disappointing thing.
But anyway, onto next week.
In regards to discussion about the AI cars over the PS Messenger dealy, you'll see in the following video how glitchy they seemed and why I desperately wanted to get past them. Probably got a little greedy trying to get both in one move, thought i'd nailed it, then got turned around. So they arent completely ghost (and if they are ghosts, I probably shouldve just gone straight through them rather than around them.) I've also included footage of the Safety Car issue
@ItzRacing95 mentioned earlier. Was certainly a quirky race...
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