again – it’s cold

i did 2 stints yesterday. the car performance and handling is great even when it started to understeer a little bit and the last 2 laps per stint are quite demanding due the light rear. surprisely, i was able to catch position 1. it seems that the gt pack is struggeling with overlapping as well and with lap times around 8 minutes i was able to put 2 minutes between me and position 2. at the end of stint 3 i changed to new tires all around, some battles with the porsches shaved my front tires to 22 and the rears to 17/19. to get a shorter stop after stint 4 i found it would be good to swap all tires because this would hold position 1 after the 3rd stop. at lap 31, the dusk started and it seems that the track is cooling down because the elise started to become more pushy. due some struggling with the porsches (there are only porsches left here?) while overlapping i lost a lot of time on the track and number 2 is coming closer faster than i can handle. unfortunately, the other ngt elise wasn’t really cooperating and blocked me at the exit of galgenkopf and after i drove hard into the back i had a spin and lost more time once again. in lap 9 of stint 4, at exmuehle, i was too hard on the throttle and with a spectacular burn out i accelerated up the hill into an impressive spin. number 2, a ferrari 550, passed me with a condescending smile on his face about this newbie like mistake. i am a little bit afraid of the night because i am not sure if the tires will handle a colder track. that’s the major downside of driving gt-tires on a 800 kg car.

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