Have been watching STC for some time and really looked forward to make my first race. Thanks to David Zafiu who let me drive for Motor AG.
But nothing went as expected. First I couldn't join the server due to a mod missmatch. Took me a while of trying different thing before I moved all other mods I had from the Teams folder and could join. Now I had less time to get ready, and David was feeling bad and also had problems. I had to get on Skype to send him a copy of my STC Doran folder so he could join just before Q ended. My game was running smoothly at first, but then periods of about 5-10 secs of lag began to appear. Was really strange and just hoped to be able to race despite it. Did anyone see me lagging?
My Q lap wasn't the best, but it was okey. Was really suprised to see me get 8:th place
. I thought I would end up like 15:th or something. Don't see me as fast as these guys, but I practiced a lot for this one.
My thoughts ahead of the race was just to make an error free race and bring the car home at my own pace. The first start was red flagged. Was it because of me? I didn't want to accelerate or brake too violently, because that causes problems futher back, so suddenly the ones infront pulled out a gap after the last corner and I didn't catch up in time.
Lost a place in T1 at the start, but then just took it easy to build my pace, because the race is long. Then on the third race lap when I started to get closer to the one infront everyone dissapered and my TS disconnected. I hoped it was a temporary glitch, but I was out of the race :frown:.
Feels really bad. I think I haven't disco in a race like that ever before, so really unlucky. But that's sim racing. It happens to all of us some time.
A positive thing was David who could fight his way up the field from last position to bring home some points for the team, and that my pace was better than I could have imagined.