Insane.
Not just a 2 hour sim race at Bathurst, but...
all of us for attempting this sort of masochistic exercise in our leisure time - and calling it a hobby!
And yet somehow we DO enjoy it (don't we?
). I feel we must be kindrid spirits as we all suffer this desire to inflict pain and humiliation upon ourselves. Fellow drivers, I feel your pain as well as my own! Perhaps we all succeed and fail together, as one. A league of late night loonies. The United States of Insanity.
Oh crap! Sorry about all that. Is it possible to have virtual concussion? I did hit the wall pretty hard late in the race
Anyway. My race could have been a disaster but it wasn't. I butchered qualy but wasn't last. The opening lap was super scary but nothing happened to me. For the race I didn't have great pace but I wasn't super slow either. I missed numerous incidents in front of me by sheer fluke. My pitstop was spot on for once. I brushed the wall a few times but only the big late one had any consequences and even then 2 of the 3 places lost were gifted back to me by other people's disasters. There were times in the race when the car and driver were on-song and I couldn't stop smiling.
@SteveDrivingSlowly I wondered what was going on with you on lap1 as I nearly climbed into your boot at the cutting
. I knew something wasn't right. When you started catching me after our pitstops I thought here we go. Steve's found his pace and I'm in his sights. I decided to focus forward and push harder in the hope you'd use up your tyres a bit just getting to me. When I looked up on Conrod you'd disappeared. Bad luck on the spin and further troubles mate as I was looking forward to a bit of a battle.
@c4rLo5 That pass I did up at Skyline was completely unintentional and started as avoidance when you exited a bit slower than I expected. Thanks for seeing me on your left and backing out as I was kind of stuck in no mans land as we headed for the esses
@AGK Congrats on a good race. Seems you had patience and didn't overdrive. I thought I had you covered but couldn't keep it off the wall and you were able to capitalise when it mattered. Good lesson in endurance driving
.
@Flamebadger (does that translate into 'hotbox'?) Super bad luck on the last lap. With my destroyed aero late in the race I had nothing left to fend you off down Conrod on the 2nd last lap and consigned myself to 14th at the time. I felt no pleasure watching you and Kuda tangle into Griffins on the very last lap which made it a hollow gain.
So I finished 13th which I possibly didn't deserve and I think the best I could have achieved was 12th. But there is no tale of woe for me. No disaster at all. I drove fairly well and I was lucky. In fact I had a lot of good fun in that race so perhaps I'm not as insane as I thought.
Congrats to
@Kcender87 on breaking Andy's streak!
Well done
@andyo450 and
@Shawn Jacobs for the podium
And well done to the rest of us who gunned for glory but fell a bit short. Um... can we get a t-shirt or something?
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