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Post by tomlory on May 18, 2020 23:02:00 GMT
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Post by tomlory on May 18, 2020 23:02:06 GMT
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Post by tomlory on May 20, 2020 6:20:30 GMT
Somewhere between complacency and surrender for me the week ahead of this race and then I wore myself out on Saturday.
By the end of the Twin Sprint weekend I'd gotten a lot more comfortable through T1/T2 but the 1:46s seemed hopeless so not much motivation to put in time in excess of Official Practice.
Then on Saturday I fried my brain with an off road adventure that had me descending a 6500' mountain peak in the dark, rain and fog with puddles hiding obstacles; about 3 hours on fire roads and trails, between dusk and dark and over 8 hours in the drivers seat for the day. Somehow my subconscious was not very interested in the sim rig on Sunday.
I hung myself out to dry at T1/T2 on the start, lost touch with the leaders in the first couple of laps, resigned myself to a 5th place finish, was gifted 4th when Brandon fragged his engine, then gave it back with another fuel miscalculation based on bad math projecting the race to be 31 laps rather than 33 that forced me to pit, which I also screwed up by having difficulty toggling the amount of fuel to add and instead of running race pace and pitting as soon as I realized that I didn't have enough fuel I immediately dialed the fuel mixture back to one and slowed my pace to try to calculate on the fly. It was way too late in the race for that....
Watching the replay, small consolation that I was hustling it through T1/T2 faster than anyone else by the end of the race.
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Post by K Juliot on May 21, 2020 1:55:37 GMT
Congrats Pat. Interesting race that played out, so far really liking the 60 min format.
Was really happy to qualy 3rd on the grid. On the start I was able tuck up to Hutty and beat Brandon to turn one. But I knew it wasn't going to last, Hutty's speed was pulling away and knew Brandon had more down the straight also. So wasn't surprised when he drafted by me on lap two, now I had Pat hunting me in 4th. We went that way for half the race, sometimes I'd get a gap then we would be nose to tail. On lap 18, we were talking about something and I was not paying attention like I should have and he drafted by on the straight.
I had no solid strategy going into this, just check my tires at half way and figure it out from there. My tires were at 68% or better on lap 17 so I knew I was going to not pit, but I figured Pat would with his history of burning up tires. So after he passed me I wasn't that concerned until he told me on lap 19 that his tires were also at 68% same as me on lap 17. So now I tried to chase him down but couldn't get a pass done on the straight. With Brandon's engine frying and then Hutty slowing down after the finish with 10 mins to go thinking the race was over, Pat nearly totaled both their cars and I was right behind him. We were gifted 1st and 2nd and I had nothing left after I made slight slip with one lap to go.
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