I'm holding 17th (from a start of 21st) at Indy. Turn 4, white flag in aight,
and Elliot Sadler coming up close behind. My right front is wearing out, and
I'm losing a fair amount of speed in the corners to the car behind... it's all
I can do to make up the difference in the straights, and the water temperature
is already at the point where the idiot light is just beginning to flicker.
Anyway, the car goes a little wide out of Turn 4, enough to let Elliot get his
nose alongside. Trying to wring every last ounce out of the car, I roll on
the throttle. The nose is sliding away, but I think I've got the measure of
it. Then... that right front slips out of the groove, the car drives itself
for the briefest of moments, and down into the AI driver's flank I go.
He escapes, minus some ***, but my car is send into a spin. Narrlowly
escaping the wall, I put in the clutch, then release it to try and get the
car facing in the right direction again, but that front end is having none
of it. The nose grazes the wall and digs in.
Right, I think, there's some aero problems and I'm going to languish in
about 25th now, but all I need to do is reverse the car off the wall, grab
a forward gear and get going again. It all seems to be working, until another
car makes the same mistake I did, exits the corner wide and doesn't have
any control to go anywhere except into the back of me.
Smash, crunch, a double roll-over and most of the back of the field
annihilated thanks to worn tyres. Not to mention my hopes of that 17th
at Indy (OK, it's not quite first place but it was impressing the crew
chief...) evaporating just four and a half turns from the chequered flag.
*Sigh*... life playing NASCAR, I guess.
(This might be a *little* OT, but I had to tell someone and most people
in my block aren't much more interested in racing sims than the odd blast of
Midtown Madness or suchlike)
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Regards,
Matt