SR4L Fun Race League Watkins Glen Race Reports.

[1959nikos]

Entertaining night, I found my team mate stranded on T11 and facing me, needless to say we kissed, that's love.

Yukk!! You didnt even shave!!

Took me two days to bring this report, I wrote it at office, but I still cant access site from there.

Quali

A very difficult track this was for me (arent they all), too many changes of forces meant I could in no way drive with the same settings as all suggested, only way for me to get a clean lap was to resort to old, trusted 65/35 brake bias, that way I got a 2:04 and I was content, there was no way I could find the extra 2sec needed to get near Neela who had an amazing progress at only her 2nd race here.

Race 1

I tried my best (thats what I thought I was doing), was all over the place, in the middle of race couldnt avoid a nasty exit that costed me an extra 115sec pitstop, so no wonder I was last.

Race 2

By now I figured out I must take a different approach here, so I decided to stay back, minimise my mistakes and watch the others doing theirs.
All went well and by middle of race I was behind a slipping and sliding Vittorio who, even with a bent car he was still getting away.
I entered pits to find Vittorio there and then suddenly I grasped the situation. He was 9th, I was 10th,but he obviously was in for a long pitstop, if I could get away sooner, I maybe had a chance of stealing 9th place!
So I did, I went away with a good difference, but it was obvious that if I raced with a relaxed pace, he would soon catch on, as his lap times were 3sec less than me all race (what a progress for you Vittorio in last races, very difficult for me to follow).
So, I clenched teeth, pushed on as hard as I could, made no mistakes and I had a very satisfying points position

Race 3

As tactics of race 2 paid off, the plan was the same but with a big difference. I found myself in middle of grid, and when car in front stalled, I managed to avoid hitting it braking hard, only to have a shower of cars on me, under me, everywhere.
Miraculously I didnt have serious damage, I even passed Gorka (I was in track while he was out of it lol, I saw him trying to find a place to get in again) and at middle of race I entered pits at a cool 10th place and Cor was there and looked like race 2 all over again.
I didnt want to get into dog fights with Cor, I would wait for his mistake, so I let him pass first out of pits and followed him closely.
Then, disaster came.
As we went into T2 flat out, he suddenly slowed down, there was no way I could avoid him, I didnt have time even to swerve, I slammed hard on him and we both flew over the rails (Im very sorry for this Cor).
I waited for him to get back in track, but he quited, somehow I managed to limp back in pits, had a fantastic 180sec(!) pitstop, so I managed to get the finishing point for Billys Cart Bangers.

all in all a very interesting race, Wim in love with his G27, wanting to go to bed with it (did you score Wim?), new people around, getting along nicely with our bunch, I see above that you joined after all Craven, hope you enjoyed it, whas that Thomas?