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Seriously, you guys put on an amazing performance. To have had 4 disconnects aswell, well, that's a test of anybody's patience and resilience.
Thanks for the kind words Alex but I was VERY sloppy in my first session. It also seemed as though all the 'action' was being saved up for my session, as if my car was fitted with some kind of iracing-wanker-magnet™ during the pit-stop. I also remember talking to Yorkie (I think) during one of my stints and was talking about having spun through Indianapolis, just as I was approaching said corner. In true clickbait fashion, "You'll never guess what happened when Cluck entered Indianapolis" . Frustration set in for a few minutes and it took a little bit to calm down, re-focus and just get on with the job.
The main thing was, I (eventually) learned from those mistakes. I knuckled down and focussed as best I could on getting the car to the end of each of my stints in one piece. It's frustrating that I always handed the car over in a worse position than when I took over but that's what happens, I suspect, when you enter a 24-hour race on a whim, with no more than half-a-dozen hours of iRacing driving under your belt. The majority of my incidents were either self-inflicted or the result of HPD traffic. Take the 2 iRacing bugs out, take out the stupid cut-track penalty, that goes UP when your foot is off the damn throttle, take out the incident at the first Mulsanne chicane, and I reckon I would have kept us nicely in the hunt.
Being the self-critic that I am (you'd never guess!), I will still look back at the mistakes I made and what they cost the team. Despite being proud of my own performance and immensely proud to have been the driver to cross the line at the end - with a last stint that was precisely what the team wanted of me - I am acutely aware that my mistakes cost us 8th place at the very least. Nothing that can be done about it now, of course so it will soon be forgotten, I'm sure
Finishing in one piece was my only goal going into the race, so at least I achieved that
Thanks for the kind words Alex but I was VERY sloppy in my first session. It also seemed as though all the 'action' was being saved up for my session, as if my car was fitted with some kind of iracing-wanker-magnet™ during the pit-stop. I also remember talking to Yorkie (I think) during one of my stints and was talking about having spun through Indianapolis, just as I was approaching said corner. In true clickbait fashion, "You'll never guess what happened when Cluck entered Indianapolis" . Frustration set in for a few minutes and it took a little bit to calm down, re-focus and just get on with the job.
The main thing was, I (eventually) learned from those mistakes. I knuckled down and focussed as best I could on getting the car to the end of each of my stints in one piece. It's frustrating that I always handed the car over in a worse position than when I took over but that's what happens, I suspect, when you enter a 24-hour race on a whim, with no more than half-a-dozen hours of iRacing driving under your belt. The majority of my incidents were either self-inflicted or the result of HPD traffic. Take the 2 iRacing bugs out, take out the stupid cut-track penalty, that goes UP when your foot is off the damn throttle, take out the incident at the first Mulsanne chicane, and I reckon I would have kept us nicely in the hunt.
Being the self-critic that I am (you'd never guess!), I will still look back at the mistakes I made and what they cost the team. Despite being proud of my own performance and immensely proud to have been the driver to cross the line at the end - with a last stint that was precisely what the team wanted of me - I am acutely aware that my mistakes cost us 8th place at the very least. Nothing that can be done about it now, of course so it will soon be forgotten, I'm sure
Finishing in one piece was my only goal going into the race, so at least I achieved that