Well, I'm pretty disappointed with myself after we had a 1.5 lap lead over ZT last night.
It was really a dreadful 2 hours or so of driving for me. In my first stint, I was extremely nervous and then had a complete suspension failure which cost me a minute limping back to the pits, then I got disconnected a few laps into my next stint which cost us about another 2:20. After the disconnect I managed to open the tracker and forget to close it before rejoining the server, so every 30 seconds my game would virtually freeze while the tracker refreshed in the background. Not easy to put up with for 45 minutes! To make matters worse, my confidence was decimated and as bond hadn't any charge left in his phone, he couldn't be reached, and misan had only just gone to bed. I had to keep driving with define until about 6:30 AM. Fortunately without any more mistakes this time, but I was only able to push at ~95% with the lacking confidence and I was having real trouble passing the slow cars without losing time.
At one point we were 2 laps behind ZT, but some great driving from my team mates got that down to about 4 sectors within a few hours, and then with about 20 mins to go it was down to 1 lap and 4 seconds. I told bond the situation and that he might have some fun trying to get us unlapped, then, out of the blue, ZT #024 got 1 lap deducted for a shift-p over 23 hours earlier. I really thought at this stage we would see a titanic battle for the win, the gap was 4 seconds and closing with about 15 minutes remaining now. Unfortunately bond got a bit of traffic and was unable to close the gap, but I think we were provided with some real excitement for a few minutes at least
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In summary, a few minutes of madness from me really cost us in this race. I think Hendrik, Teemu and Jari really drove superbly, they were driving like men-possessed in the second half of the race, Hendrik especially!.
Thanks to ZT for organising such a great event, and, overall, while disappointed with myself for losing us the win, P2 is a great result considering it's the team's first endurance event, and ZT really drove at an outstanding pace throughout.
BTW - Victor: It would be really great if we could see the last lap time of each driver, and possibly their fastest lap too, on the live progress page. It would stop us having to count it ourselves
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