NeoGAF F1 League Race - Monza

A fairly exciting race for me. Very pleased to be second in qualifying with my best lap of the track ever - although I was annoyed Phleg was only marginally quicker and took the top spot!

The first part of the race was pretty chaotic. Traded blows with a lot of people, mostly Phleg and Lucius, with Crumbs getting in the mix every so often.

I had one REALLY scary moment with Rambo which nearly took me out of the race entirely. I was trying to make sure I got around as fast as possible after pitting and when I came to him on the last corner I wasn't even considering the fact he might want to pit. I went to overtake on the left, but he swerved over to the left too so I just went for the overtake on the right instead and cut him off as he went across into the pits. I got squashed between him and the wall and watching this video back we could've both easily wrecked our cars. Absolutely my fault!

Stupidly, because of this bump, I forgot to turn down my engine mode...

Trading blows with Crumbs was pretty tough because lag as an issue and I didn't trust the game to tell me where he really was. Thankfully, once I got ahead of him after he spun on the first corner I managed to maintain the gap, but what this video doesn't show is how he and I were completely equal for about 9 laps, all the while I was going from fuel saving mode to standard because I was constantly dipping into -1 laps of fuel. Eek! As Crumbs said, if he didn't run out of fuel on that last lap it would've been VERY close over the line.

Whereas Melbourne and Suzuka were somewhat tainted wins for me (many disconnects, Phleg/Kyaw being screwed by the game) I feel this was a really deserved win as I kept pushing and had constant battles throughout. Felt really rewarding to go across that line for the win!

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