SIM RACERS 4 LIFE - BT44 SEASON - FINAL ROUND - BRIANZA - REPORTS

[gorgias1976]

After a while I was even lapping Paul, but the bugger has colour blindness in blue so he wouldnt let me through and I stupidly spun at Parabollica, touching barrier but not much harm done.

Not only in blue, but the whole spectrum (as my rainbowed car is painted), he also didn't like me outbraking him at Parabolica and so he made me know :-\

Qualy
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Having not driven the car for 4 weeks was quite noticeable in my lapping. I was losing all the time in parabolica, most probably being too aggresive at the entry.
The final minute of the session I was catching Paul's slipstream which was going to be a big one, from lesmo 2 to parabolica, but ruined it completely at lesmo 2 kissing the wall and spinning. So my time was only valid for 4th or 5th place, can't remember now.

Race
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Determined to take the challenge of doing no pitstop I filled my car with 172 liters. My idea was to lose some places the first laps and then use the draft of one of the cars ahead to keep under his pace until half the race.
Sadly that didn't work. The car was too slow on acceleration being this heavy and every time I tried to get close to the car which had just overtaken me, my car became a nightmare to drive. No front grip at all.
The first third of the race was horrible. Due to the lack of front grip in traffic I went wide in Parabollica twice, one battling Andy and the second braking hard behind John losing big seconds, stalling the engine, restarting.... at least I didn't damage the car and could avoid trees and billboards.
Starting the second third of the race things weren't any better. The car started to suffer unexpected oversteers at Curva Grande, the worst place to have it in this track. I had to change my driving through it for the remaining of the race to avoid a crash.
As people started pitting and crashing I went up in the grid up to 5th place.
15 laps to the end I saw smoke ahead and I found Ramon in front of me in third place (Dan was no longer there or I didn't see him).
This was my best moment of the race battling him for several laps and for the final 10 laps pushing as hard as I could to avoid him catching me. I did my fastest laps of the race at that moment lapping 21.1s and pushing 100% as my tires were screaming for mercy already in the yellow (both left tires).

Dave, you didn't need to let us go through, you deserved the victory and didn't mind it was the last or first race. Thanks anyway