Season 11 - Division 2

I did a little practise the other night, I can't remember the times but I was half a second off BMW and Bryan. Need to do a bit more before the race for sure.

Look forward to racing tonight.
Cheers

got it down to a 23.2 after getting scared off the track by Jays orangeness when my race became a go for the fastest lap effort. incredible times grassies, great race to the podium for ya. congrats to SS on a stella season & a huge thanx to y'all for some fantastic racing this season, i've learnt a bunch & had a great time

Finally the end of what has been by far my worst season. Just never felt comfortable pushing this car which makes it hard to enjoy driving.

On a positive note, the brief example of next season's car tonight gives me something to look forward to. It may be a little understeer prone, but at least it feels connected and predictable.

Mind you, if you want some racing in a car that suffers no understeer issues, there's always F1 2016 on Thursday nights!

2nd that. Wasnt really excited about the hsv. That being said. Happy with overall result in championship. Had some really good close racing.
Looking forward to gtr however.
F1 2016 is the place to be thursday nights.

My problem is that I drive by feel, so I need to be able to feel when the front wheels are biting or sliding, and feel when the rear is on the limits of grip. GT6 is bad enough when it comes to wheel feedback, but for some reason the HSV makes it even worse.

Another congrats to ss. @grassies super drive. DOTD.
Quali. Spun on first attempt and was 10th or so. Cruised around burning fuel till the last chance at a hot lap. Happy with a pb 23.900, put me 4th. Must of been close to two in front if they did .8s.
Race. Havnt gotten that car off the line all season. Down to 5th straight away. From then on it was stay on black stuff and dont spin. Fastest lap was poo, but did consistent laps.
Pit stop sucked, sat there waiting for traffic, but thats just how it goes. Didnt have the balls to go flat out just wanted to keep 3rd overall. Pretty sure of that.
Been better then i expected this season. Not a huge fan of an untuned hsv. Bring on the gtr.

what gtr for next season has been picked ?

Throughly enjoyed my first experience racing with in a club enviroment.
I tried to do my best to be fast , clean and respectful.
Sorry to bmw, sorry mate tried to go around you.
I should of stuck to my strategy , but i altered when others continued past my pit strategy
A good learning curve i guess.
Cheers

I think the more strategies involved with winning makes for better racing.
Tyre changes and pit strategies all apart of racing and competition.
And this makes you think more about your race, and how to go about being competitive
Hope to race again soon.

What a great way to end my first season of Sunday league racing. Going into the race I had done about 5-10 laps of practise and about 2 or 3 clean laps (because spinning is too damn easy on this track!) so I didn't have many expectations tbh.
Qually: Fastest lap was a 24.3 going into the night so when I heard div 1 guys and alot of you all doing 23's during the week I felt a little nervous. That first lap though just worked for me, I pushed it hard into some corners whilst missing a few apexes I didn't think it was going to be all that good until the 23.3 showed up. I stuffed up the next lap early and pulled over in shock. Basically a top 10 shootout lap in the end for me and worked out well.
Race: Given the complete lack of practise and a 2/10 not spinning lap average, it was all about damage control. The early track position helped and the pace of @grassies and @BMWF30328 really had me going hard in those opening laps. Knowing I couldn't gap them cause I felt I'd spin if I went any harder, I just help my lines and hoped they'd make mistakes whilst battling. Fortunately for me that happened and even while battling they were matching my laps and I just focused on being cautious. When Grass pitted on lap 8, I felt the undercut was gonna happen, and when it did I thought about just bringing it home in second. Then he punched a 22 and I kinda gave up chasing him and trying to hold position in 2nd until the yet to stop gambler of @Viperzed was caught up to. I could see Grass having a look at him from a distance and after slowly getting back to within a second they went into probably the worst corner to go side by side in and the cloud of smoke erupted from the tarmac. (All seemed like a racing incident afterwards and close racing is always going to provoke a possible incident) After slamming the brakes, I saw the 2 emerge and avoided a follow up collision gifting me the lead. From then on it was much of the same for me, not going hard and keeping the gap knowing that grass was on 1 lap older tyres and holding it home to the finish. DOTD to Grassies cause even on those older tyres he kept closing the gap and I wasn't going to risk pushing harder to pull away knowing I'll probably spin.

And that wraps it up for me. It's been a pleasure to race against all of you in Div 2 this season, all being so helpful, friendly and competitive has really made it the perfect introduction to league racing. After Bathurst proves it, with the encouragement from alot of you to push me to improve and get faster to eventually win the Championship is amazing and I'm extremely thankful to all of you. Looks like I'll be taking the GTR to the Div 1 fellas and giving it my best crack there and just like Benny, I can't wait to drive a car that feels like a car! Big thanks to @its-benny-racer for hosting week in, week out aswell. Also want to thank @Hatfield for encouraging me to get involved after our titts races on Tuesdays, I've loved it, @Russell for being that 'man to beat' every week and to all the guys for turning up and producing some great, hard fast racing and giving me something to look forward to every week.

It's been a pleasure, 'ssman244'. *drops mic* *sprays champagne* *lifts old U12's cricket trophy for most improved to make the situation seem more authentic*

I was certainly aware, you almost got close enough for me to have to go defensive but not quite, was a big relief once I got past Viper as that created enough space to prevent me from having to defend at any point.

G'day @Viperzed again sorry we had a coming together when you say hit you in the rear do you mean I drove into your rear bumper?