Twas a pom's summer's day at Brands Hatch
For to qual was to slide and to catch
But come time to race
We could unleash our pace
As the sun came to shine on our patch
(inspired by
@tezpez85 's rendition of 'Row Your Boat Bentley Down the Stream')
In Prac I was hoping to further tweak my dry setup but... oh well. So instead I ended up assessing the grip levels of various surfaces around the track and even sometimes the track itself. I contemplated tweaks to the wet setup but it turned out adding a rudder wasn't within the regulations, so I just went with the default.
Q:
My extensive practice at track re-entry paid off as that skill was needed a few times in qual. I did manage to set a time and so avoided the back row.
R:
I got a good start for once but couldn't use it due to local traffic issues. That didn't seem to affect
@Rolz though who may or may not have deployed a police siren as he sliced through said traffic with ease. I must say it was good work by all those around me as we all got through T1 tidily. From there it was a lot of fun in the Bentley as I battled with a bunch of other's once again.
I had cool dice with Vandalay early on, with
@Wally breathing down my neck the whole time. Vandalay was holding me off for lap after lap until he unfortunately lost the rear in T1. Being right behind I had no way of avoiding him so it was kind of a gentle T-bone collision if there is such a thing. I sustained some front aero damage and lost a position to Wally but was able to carry on. Wally unfortunately got caught up in an incident a few laps later so I got that one back. Other cool dices were with Laurenson and
@c4rLo5 both of whom won those battles.
I brought it home in 13th and was reasonably happy with my driving. I didn't have any real issue dropping back to a flat screen after 3 years of VR so no excuses there. I did miss the immersion of VR though. Hopefully it's only a couple of weeks till I'm back racing with a box on my head.
Congrats to the chicken dinners and podium getters of each class.
Cya next week.
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