[Russell Sobie]

Luckily Austin didn't get trampled at the start and finished podium, as was intended by the Race Gods. I was doing quite well this evening in 6th until someone did a thing and I had to limp to the pit with my steering wheel at about 80 degrees. I then spent 2-3 minutes getting suspension and body repair, and re-entered the race just to see positions 1 and 2 drive by! Weeee! No chance of me uploading my 16th place finish to the youtubes.

I AM about to upload my video of last night's race where I placed 6th but should have placed well further towards the rear than that.
Here's what I'd recommend to folks struggling to keep their wheels to themselves on the track, and safely getting through the first couple of turns on these consistently large grids for next season:

1. Put in some practice laps on the practice server during the week, or an hour before the race. Either the practice server or by yourself. Whatever blows your hair back.
   
2. Be able to go around the track a good 10 times in a row without going off-track before you start pushing it into corners trying to find time.
   
3. Before dropping into the actual race, fill up the grid with bots with you in various positions on the grid and practice starts. This does wonders for cluing you into how your car starts with relatively cold tires among a lot of other cars with relatively cold tires. It also will let you understand what Turn 1 looks like when all you see is the backs of cars. It's drastically different than when you are hotlapping!
   

I'm sure there are thousands of other tips, but the above is what I do, and it's serving me fairly well (even though I seem to be a magnet for silliness more so on Friday races than on Thursday for some reason...).

I'm super happy with the next series car choice where the car is not so volatile. Hopefully we'll see some really clean racing. See you next week!