Division 3 Season 2

How do you do that so clear

Good report stumbles, you were to consistent to beat last night.
I stuffed up in qualify I did my first ever lap under 1.17 with a 16.9 which did have me in 2nd place, but I made a stupid move and quit before race started. Dam it lol.
So that had me starting from dead last grrrr managed to jump 4 guys on the start, only to have a lag crash with Gary at the end of the lap. Put me right at the back again .the lag was terrible until Tovey got disconected.
So I spent the whole race lap after lap pushing as hard as I could. stumbles would respond trading fastest laps times but in the end he was to far up the road and didn't make any mistakes. Good win stumbles.

I enjoyed last night for the pressure of keeping the car on the track, as well as the 'fight' with groover towards the end which i found quite thrilling, even though it was never really side by side racing. I was never terribly quick here and the extra week for practice didn't help as i never really had a chance to get on for a run. However, i did manage to get better in time for the race and somehow qualified 5th with a 17 something, and a PB by far of 17.4 in the race. Unfortunately i could neither keep that pace consistently nor keep the car on the track at important moments and ended up with some critical errors all through the race which dropped me back by a great margin, two being the corkscrew on the first lap from a good position and the first corner halfway through the race after just setting my PB and pulling in on groover.

But wasnt to be and was settling in for a lonely race in 'almost' last place with pace around the 18.5-19.5 until 4 laps from the end when groover comes off at turn 3 and gave me the challenge of holding him off till the end of the race. GT6 was doing that weird thing where it would dream the car going into a corner too hot or going off track and spinning out and then 2 seconds later snap back to reality and have the competitor right where they should be. This threw me off a lot in the last few laps with groover and partially resulting in me loosing the place- but honestly you were quicker groover and i probably would have lost it on the last lap anyway.... do other people get those hallucinations as well?

Even without the mistakes i probably wasnt up for anything higher than 4th but great credit to the guys up front on a good race, and off course well done to Stumbles and commiserations to tovey for the drop out.

ok mate

yeah, ive had lag before where it is just the car moving erratically, thats what i have been used to and i guess ive been ok with that. It's only been lately I'm having this other kind of lag where its like the network reads your mind about the competitor going off track or lunging way to hot, and then it happens, and this throws me off more as i consider that to give a bit of a breather, but then the car pops back on the track as normal. Its like its teasing me. Having said that, i clearly shouldn't be relying the mistakes of others to get me up the grid!!

Sorry Slambo, It looked to me just like you lost it on your own. I didn't feel a thing. In fact I never see any lag with anyone at all.

It looks like there was quite a lot of lag last night sorry guys. Might me time to try a new host? We are certainly not enjoying the lag free races we were last season.

I guess I finished as high as could have expected, not turning a single lap all week. Qualified somewhere in the back and found my way to last place thanks to PD's new addition, F1 lights start.
Jumped the start and got a 2 sec penalty followed by an irresponsive Macca just sitting still until a big push from behind got me going.
I figured there is nothing else I could do but put my head down and bring it home. Didn't have blistering pace but did not make mistakes and took advantage of other people's unfortunate situations and found the back of slambobagan, who was obviously too fast and slowly disappeared in the distance.
Had a small sand excursion on turn 1 only 3 laps from the finish by pure silly distraction.
For a while gained on Gary but mostly he kept or grew the gap, so stayed there until the end.
Sorry about your disconnect Tovey, your pace was clearly on the div1/2 times and would have been another win for you.
On a a happier note, glad to see stumbles not keeping true to his name and driving a truly strong race just as he did in Tokyo on season 12, his last season win.
Slambobagan very fast as well, with a well deserved second.
My sights are fixed on Gary as we seem to be on similar race pace, but need to be close to call it a battle.
Make sure you bring your gum boots and umbrellas next week for a stroll in the wet. Cyas

Pretty cut about PSN/pd dramas last night, every time I would get on track and within a minute my screen would freeze and 30 sec later I'd get disconnected from the servers.
In a practice race during the week, I was doing ok for about 10 laps then got d/c. That should have raised the alarm that all was not well with my config. But with a motorkhana on Sunday it was a very busy weekend for me, working on my towbar/trailer/race car all day Saturday and then a early start for a day of skids in the sun. Finally got home with an hour to spare before race time. Pizza delivery turned up 10 mins prior to qually, so I threw down a few quick slices and got in the seat ready to race then the dc dramas started!
Congrats Stumbles and thanks for doing the report in my absence!

He didn't finish the 2nd lap I don't think before he got d/c Stumbles got the fastest I'm pretty sure.