Sunday we started off a nice sunny, but cold morning, but by lunch time, the rain cloud rolled in, it started raining and then SNOWING.
That's snow flakes melting on my sleeve!
Being Porsche, they are prepared, especially when Timo brought the Silverstone WEC weekend with him back to Leipzig.
Out comes the rain tires.
We also spent some time doing drifting in the handling circle in the GT3RS too:
I didn't spent much time wit the rain tires, my partner The Farmer hogs the car. But I did get a special moment that not many can experience.
I only spent 2 laps on the rain tires, and the track is already drying up and no more wet patches for me to go over and cool the tires. I got radioed in for a tire change. Little did I know what they had planned. Instead of going into the garage, they had lined up fro a race pitstop! Full crew at 4 corners. On goes the air hose for the air jack, zip zip zip zip off goes the 4 wet and zip zip zip zip on goes 4 slicks. Since I was in the car, I don't have pictures of that but I think The Farmer has. The film crew also filmed the whole thing. And other visitors to the Leipzig facility on that day too. Of course, being the dumb dumb that I am, I stalled it heading off, twice. haha.
In the end, the sun returned for a beautiful finish.
We mentioned before, The Farmer and I shared a car, we were the only one that finished. His friend fell victim to the entry procedure of the Cup car, think he hurt his knee the first day climbing in and out, he missed the Sunday morning session but rejoined us in the GT3RS in the afternoon. He was a very capable driver to be honest, actually lapped me in the Cup car while driving the GT3RS. Impressive to say the least. Or that I was exceptionally slow. Probably that, as I had created a new entry line for Victoria turn, it's was so out there that it shocked everyone. Let's just say it was a deep V, very deep V for Victoria, and I wasn't describing clothing on a girl.
The other 'retiree', well that was interesting to say the least. One of the driver of the car went off course on Saturday, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, the damage wasn't too bad, and the car was repaired overnight. Come Sunday morning, the other driver finished the job. Retiring it for good. The had to switch to the backup car. I was on the track at that time but The Farmer was in the pits and they basically heard tire squeals, then thump thump thump. Not a good feeling but the safety equipment did their job, he walked away without a scratch, well perhaps a bit on his ego and wallet, but that's about it.
So yeah, The Farmer and I weren't the quickest, but we were the last men standing.
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