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- Sep 16, 2016
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- 399
- Reaction score
- 215
Was a fun race up until the rain ....
For the first few laps of rain I surprised myself by following the leaders on drys and the car felt good, and pitted once the times approached wet tyre times, all going great I thought. Entering the pits for wets I quickly tried to select the desired options for tyres and fuel. When in VR this just doesn't work robustly as I have to use the D Pad on the wheel to move through the menus. Whilst selecting the setup I inadvertently slipped and selected an asymmetric setup and ended up with 1 wet on the front left and 3 softs.
The resulting outlap was a disaster with two big off track moments, after realising the mistake I was forced into making a 3rd pit stop which alongside the two spins pretty much destroyed all the hard work from the first stint. During the 3rd pit stop the curse of VR struck again whilst selecting the options on the Wheel I slipped again this time taking a couple of liters of fuel out of the strategy. With 2 laps left I realised I wasn't going to make it on full bore so had seriously lift and coast the last two laps but even that wasn't enough and ran out of fuel about 100m from the end and coasted over the finish line.
Still great fun and fair racing, but really bummed about the way it panned out.
For the first few laps of rain I surprised myself by following the leaders on drys and the car felt good, and pitted once the times approached wet tyre times, all going great I thought. Entering the pits for wets I quickly tried to select the desired options for tyres and fuel. When in VR this just doesn't work robustly as I have to use the D Pad on the wheel to move through the menus. Whilst selecting the setup I inadvertently slipped and selected an asymmetric setup and ended up with 1 wet on the front left and 3 softs.
The resulting outlap was a disaster with two big off track moments, after realising the mistake I was forced into making a 3rd pit stop which alongside the two spins pretty much destroyed all the hard work from the first stint. During the 3rd pit stop the curse of VR struck again whilst selecting the options on the Wheel I slipped again this time taking a couple of liters of fuel out of the strategy. With 2 laps left I realised I wasn't going to make it on full bore so had seriously lift and coast the last two laps but even that wasn't enough and ran out of fuel about 100m from the end and coasted over the finish line.
Still great fun and fair racing, but really bummed about the way it panned out.