Assetto Corsa Round 1 Zandvoort 1973 - Mon Mar 1, 2021

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Phew, it's strange. Which one am I? Did I hit someone? I thought I was hit by someone. It seemed from my car. Sorry! Lag...lag ruined my race.

 

I am not overly happy with yesterday's race...
In relative terms, I improved from P7 at the start to P4 which could have been P3 without the incident with @Matteo Santini, and if I had managed to hold him for another couple of laps... (don't worry Matteo, Zandvoort, and us both on track is not a good combination but you should still watch my video of the race in full -and Caitlin's stream- as penance )
I cannot complain in this sense (others had significantly worse experiences yesterday) but I feel that no one other than @Maddie Shepherd and, possibly, @Laurent Londes, can be happy with yesterday's race. We were heavily outperformed by Maddie's speed and that's worrying on one hand, although it might also suggest we have still a huge scope for improvement in the remaining of the series.
It was certainly a suffering day for the usual aliens. Matteo's second stint suggests he spent the 30 secs it took to change his tyres binge drinking grappa of the highest alcoholic content. He insisted on giving me back P3 by making awkward mistakes after running an almost perfect first part of the race...
The return (I'm sure only temporary) to the human race for @Tim Muttram was also hard to witness (especially for him ), but we are all celebrating his arrival to Earth with joy .
The track is very nice and excellent in many aspects but it needs refining in some areas. The pit wall is dreadful and some of the kerbs project your suspension to outer space in ways you wouldn't possibly expect. Thanks to Caitlin for pointing this out during her stream as I felt outraged with those awkward aspects of the track. I feel we have to do much more work in the car setup (even if @Maxime Tendil's cats had already a good start) and look forward to some improvement in the next races.
Congrats to Maddie for a tremendous race, Laurent for representing the rest of us as challengers and @Lorenzo Galluzzi for a well-deserved podium.
Video of the race:

 

Whoops, I had some issues with work and completely lost focus on this championship. I will be around for Donington then!

 

Woah. That was bizarre.

 

Thanks to Caitlin for another great broadcast. It was fun watching it and you caught my clumsy pass of John around the outside of T1. It wasn't a great move it was a terrifying brown explosive event as I almost didn't stop in time. My 2nd clumsy attempt in 2 laps. Not enough pooh came out the previous lap so I thought I'd have another go.