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- Jan 17, 2017
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Crazy race with lots of spinners and incidents, as expected in the wet I guess.
Was going 22th when I lost the car at the exit of the first chicane and lightly tapped the wall, 15 minutes till the end.
This set off such a chain of crazy/silly events one after another, it was quite hillarious.
Seeing that the wheel was crooked and that the suspensions needed repair, I went into the pits. On entrance I thought that bodywork repairs were not essential at that point, so thought to uncheck that to save a couple of seconds. But lo and behold, it turns out that repairs are paired together in ACC, so unchecking bodywork disabled repairs for suspensions as well And I had already ported at my pit spot that moment, didn't have time to change it back. My pit crew just changed my tires and let me go, a change I didn't really need anyway.
Becoming frustrated that I would have to come in again at the next lap for the repairs this time, a momentary relapse got me not paying attention to the pit limiter and gearing up to 2nd.
So, at the exit I got a notification that I got a 30 seconds Stop-and-Go penalty for speeding in the pit lane. Completing another frustrated lap and coming back in, I was angry and impatient, so my speed was too high entering the pits and couldn't manage to slow down enough to avoid the wall and make the turn left (into the pits)
I had no option to make the repairs this time and come in for the SG penalty the next lap as it automatically enacts the penalty-serving process.
So at the end of 30 seconds, I had a car at my hands that was literally undrivable at that point. So I couldn't see completing a full lap to come back in again.
Deciding that this was too much, had to retire after 80 minutes of gruesome driving and 10 minutes before the end.
Was going 22th when I lost the car at the exit of the first chicane and lightly tapped the wall, 15 minutes till the end.
This set off such a chain of crazy/silly events one after another, it was quite hillarious.
Seeing that the wheel was crooked and that the suspensions needed repair, I went into the pits. On entrance I thought that bodywork repairs were not essential at that point, so thought to uncheck that to save a couple of seconds. But lo and behold, it turns out that repairs are paired together in ACC, so unchecking bodywork disabled repairs for suspensions as well And I had already ported at my pit spot that moment, didn't have time to change it back. My pit crew just changed my tires and let me go, a change I didn't really need anyway.
Becoming frustrated that I would have to come in again at the next lap for the repairs this time, a momentary relapse got me not paying attention to the pit limiter and gearing up to 2nd.
So, at the exit I got a notification that I got a 30 seconds Stop-and-Go penalty for speeding in the pit lane. Completing another frustrated lap and coming back in, I was angry and impatient, so my speed was too high entering the pits and couldn't manage to slow down enough to avoid the wall and make the turn left (into the pits)
I had no option to make the repairs this time and come in for the SG penalty the next lap as it automatically enacts the penalty-serving process.
So at the end of 30 seconds, I had a car at my hands that was literally undrivable at that point. So I couldn't see completing a full lap to come back in again.
Deciding that this was too much, had to retire after 80 minutes of gruesome driving and 10 minutes before the end.