I really wish my Blootoof mic hadn't decided to quit last night, there were a couple of times where I really wanted to say sorry and such lol.
The race itself was mostly just average for me, for some reason I didn't have the best time driving that car on that track last night which is odd as I usually do fairly well at Laguna Seca in other cars but for some reason I just couldn't quite keep that 300ZX on the road enough consistently. Not that I really had any major spin outs (at least after that hiccup on the 1rd lap when I hit Dawson and a few of us got bunched up) either, I just dipped a wheel off here and there and had to slow down too much.
I did try something interesting with tires though as some were commenting on midrace
. I started out on Racing: Hards with the intention of making it a 1-stop race though sadly I miscalculated slightly, I got about 14 laps (I think) out of them before I decided to pit and switch to Mediums. Had I stuck with the Hards I would probably not have had to pit again, but after about 13 laps on the Mediums I just couldn't stay out any longer without losing a spot or two anyway so I chose to be safe.
My plan was to go a bit over halfway on RH then switch to RMs with a lighter fuel load for the rest of the race, if I hadn't had all the little skids and tire scrubs that I did I think it would have worked perfectly
. I definitely got a lot better wear out of the RMs with less fuel in the car too, in short practice races (full tank) I think I was at best going to make 8-10 laps per set but with less fuel they were easily going 12-15 laps depending on driver error
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