My Diaries

A Lurid Tale of Obsession, Depravity, Wits and Attempted Wit

Friday September 24, 1999

I Have a Silly Loss for the First Time in Weeks!!

Well, yes, recently I did lose quite a few races in the GT-I Cup, when practising with the Chaser LM in preparation for the Grand Valley 300.

But last night I lost in a silly fashion.

I was practising with a race-maxed MA70 Supra, in the UKvsJP Series, since I intend to enter it in the GV300 soon. (I might even try it in the GT-I, too ). Well, I qualified only fourth at Trial Mountain II, but managed to win. Not difficult, admittedly. This car might even be slightly faster than the Chaser LM.

But then I went to SSR5. I qualified first, and led the whole race, but, coming out of the last corner I ran wide and plowed into the end of the pit wall. Well, there goes first, I thought as I tried to back out and steer back onto the course. And, indeed the FDRX7 went zooming by.

But then...

As I tried to drive out onto the track each of the following cars managed in turn to hit me in just such a way that they pushed me back off the track, and I actually finished sixth. Not very polite of them.

Oh well, I got pole position for each of the three remaining races, and won them all quite easily, so I came first, even though the FDRX7 got all the points it could. (I won 37 to 33). I won a black del Sol LM, in contrast to the green Cerbera LM's I'd been winning before. It really makes me wonder if you increase your chances of getting alternate prize cars when you do not win all races in a series.