One upon a time, in the early ETC day’s Donington was the home GP of Degen Simracing Team. Practicing this week, seeking for the right car setup for the bumpy swingy circuit hoping to score points like we did last week.
Last week, I did a complete reinstall of my computer and it seems my steering wheel is not set up right. On the straight at some point, my wheel turn right. You don’t want that when you’re in sixth gear racing.
After doing lap after lap, it was hard to find that extra bit. Because the STC version of Donington got big curbs on the chicane, I set the springs, anti roll and bumps to the minimum. That gave me half a second. Still I was not happy with 1:34.4.
In the qualification on the server I was a second slower, pole was five seconds faster then my time: 1:30. Just before the race started I was talking with Michael about out pit stop strategy. I was planning for a one stopper, but since there a big change of rain at Donington, we desired to go for a two stopper.
The race started quite good, I started 17e and could keep up the pace for a while until I got overtaken (I would say pushed) on the right in the first corner. Stayed cool and continued racing. Then a Cor car was overtaking me but I could manage to stay with him and overtake back a few laps later.
After a few laps Michael told me on the radio he had major problems with the frame rate. He told me he could not race like that and had to retire.
Than I got the steering wheel failer again, the wheel turned in by itself and I went of into the wall, first I thought I did not hit the wall hard, but then there was silence and the engine gave up on me.
Zero points.
Now, let me just concentrate on webdesign and the team. Let some other driver do the racing for us. This was not the result we were hoping for, I was trying to make it to the finish. Two races to go in this Blue Cup. Let’s focus on the next event.