^ahh, so you made the same mistake I did then? I, too, accidentally started the race on Race Hard tires!
That dropped me back significantly in the field! I also pitted for the first time on lap 10. However, I knew that the absolute, riding on the rims, limit for RS tires on my car was 8 laps. So I took advantage of that knowledge and drove hard on the RS tires, knowing that I'd be pitting again on lap 15. LastLeafFan, I watched part of your race last night when viewing the replay and saw that your tires were completely gone on lap 18. When you came around to start lap 19 my jaw dropped when you did not stop to pit
I had a pretty decent battle with my teammate, though it was more swapping positions due to pitting and spin outs rather than close racing
I was pretty proud of myself for closing the gap on DudeTuna over the last five laps (30+ seconds down to a few hundreths at the finish). However, when viewing the replay I saw Dude trying to pit on lap 16 (I believe), accidentally go into the grass, hit the wall and then pull an Austin Powers and got his car stuck sideways in the pit entrance. Not to be mean but I almost had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
After seeing that misfortune I was glad that Dude was able to hold onto his position ahead of me.
I had quite the oddity occur after the race for me. I exited the race, collected the prize money (and experience), left the lounge and went back to the main GT menu to view a few things offline. After I finished watching the reply I decided, out of curiousity, to see if the PP of my Astra had increased over the race (it was after all, a brand new car with 0 miles on the odometer). PP was the same, 600. And the total mileage displayed was 0.0.
WTF 
My account balance also no longer reflected race winnings. Do I have some sort of saving error going on with my PS3? A similar thing occurred with my Jaguar XJ220 LM car before the race. I had the engine "worn down" to 521 hp, perfect to meet the PP for the race and yet when I cranked up the PS3 today the car had 530 hp
Regardless, it was still quite a fun race and the more I run at Spa the more I like it. It's quite the honor for Team UK to have taken the overall trophy and I would agree that if Team GM had jumped in sooner things would have been more interesting! The Brits really know how to make some sports cars and the options we had at our disposal were pretty great (I think I only used a non mid-engined car twice, hahaha).
Schedule permitting I think Phreak and I will definitely be up for round 3 of this series whenever it comes back around. I've already started thinking about which makes/country I'd like to represent next time
Also I wanted to add Congrats to Wiz on his win. You really dominated the field and executed flawlessly! Hat's off to you good sir
