Day 2: Darkness.

Well today i didn't do much in terms of preperation other than setup testing for a few laps in qualifying testing and then a 2 hour stint at night to ready me for nighttime racing in drowsy conditions. Needless to say, it's TOUGH. My arms were on fire and the darkness lining my headlights was messing with my sleepy head.

However the test went absolutely AMAZING. In 2 hours i only managed to spin once because of an accident underneath Dunlop bridge and a car's hood was in the road and have a stunning off down at the first chicane on muslanne. I was about 5 car lengths behind a GT2 Porsche and i though i could outbrake it easily. I did and managed to get past, but locked up the brakes and skitted inches from the tire barrier and onto the runoff road. Probably the most hair raising experience of the test and for the remainder of the hour i stayed alert and cautious.

The Field behind me. Im in 4th place behind Pug, Audi, and a Dome closed cockpit P1 car. Green car is my teammate's car. Not in driver, but as in sister car.  The diagram on the right is my tire chart. I'm usually on it 90% of the time monitoring my tires and fuel. Any other time i'm checking my avg laptimes and rarely the distance between me and cars as i'm more focused on just driving rather "racing".

I will tell you this. The place is dark, but in game it's not as dark as real life, but still pretty dark. One particular place had me on nails whenever i was on old tires. This is not far down the road after "Indianapolis Corner". Well not far in P2 or P1's time frame and rate of speed :D

About 4 seconds later and running in pure darkness (well not pure in game), you come up on this corner which is where i've had the most bad luck in my past. Daytime and Night. Half of it is going in too fast and braking at the wrong time.  Look at my speed below the huge blue 6. Thats a 171 mph and by the time i get halfway around the corner, i'll be traveling at about 150. On 10 Lap tires, it's a harrowing experience.

Me running the paces down the strech for another dark dark lap around the Legendary 8 mile circuit. Ignore the stats you see. I had just pitted the lap before and let the AI drive so i can see what has happened over the course of 2 hours. The stats you see are from another car that had crashed out hence the 2 laps done and 38th rank.

Had fun today. looking forward to tomorrow. Bye