17-08-2015, 08:43 PM
Hi all,
here is a report from the end of the field.
I was curious about the long race and really wanted to finish it.I only came back from vacation the day before the race had had very little practice. I did not expect to be able to keep up with the pack but want to drive as consistent as possible. It did not work out. Start was ok and the first few laps I made no material mistakes and there were drivers behind me. Then someone felt the urge to apologize in the chat and i missed my breaking point due to distraction. I was cutting the corner and sent off for stop and go penalty. I thought ok, could be worse. Unfortunately the penalty stop counted as a stop but no fuel was put into the car and when I stopped the next time for the regular stop only 20liters were added which i had assigned to a second stop in case of something stupid happening. This probably was the stupid thing. To make tings worse, i had changed the wheel profile and not assigned keys to the LCD commands so i could not change the amount of fuel for the next stop. Trying out random keys while driving is not a good idea I discovered. I then had to stop every 4 laps for fuel. After all that trouble I thought I made it in lap 28 (i got lapped two time) after discovering a checkered flag behind the grid list and quit to the pits. Muist Must have been one lap to early as i was registerd as a DNF in the results. I felt stupid after that move. It was still an interesting experience and butt and wrist were hurting afterwards.
here is a report from the end of the field.
I was curious about the long race and really wanted to finish it.I only came back from vacation the day before the race had had very little practice. I did not expect to be able to keep up with the pack but want to drive as consistent as possible. It did not work out. Start was ok and the first few laps I made no material mistakes and there were drivers behind me. Then someone felt the urge to apologize in the chat and i missed my breaking point due to distraction. I was cutting the corner and sent off for stop and go penalty. I thought ok, could be worse. Unfortunately the penalty stop counted as a stop but no fuel was put into the car and when I stopped the next time for the regular stop only 20liters were added which i had assigned to a second stop in case of something stupid happening. This probably was the stupid thing. To make tings worse, i had changed the wheel profile and not assigned keys to the LCD commands so i could not change the amount of fuel for the next stop. Trying out random keys while driving is not a good idea I discovered. I then had to stop every 4 laps for fuel. After all that trouble I thought I made it in lap 28 (i got lapped two time) after discovering a checkered flag behind the grid list and quit to the pits. Muist Must have been one lap to early as i was registerd as a DNF in the results. I felt stupid after that move. It was still an interesting experience and butt and wrist were hurting afterwards.
Do you even lift?