Marc's Public Blog

This was my very first fully indoors, no indoor dining event since covid, you know just a regular club that you go and dance in. That was awesome!

First time using my new outfit for a real event. Still work in progress with a few bugs, but it's getting there. It's great when I happen to have the right shirt for the occasion, haha :)

I wasn't the only one who used the opportunity to dress up :)

Seventh Sign started the evening with a nice psy set, and handed off to Khromata after that, who played my favorite set from her so far, really good psy:

It was then time for Dimibo to take over and finish the night:

Except for the club shutting them down 10mn early in the middle of a great finishing track (WTF was that?), it was a great night. Glad to be back. Thanks Connor!

Short video summary:

Thanks Benjamin for the VIP table

Oakey!

End of set #1, ready for set #2

I don't look great during daylight, but thanks for the picture :)

I got the tires changed, and after that everything was fine, although I wasn't really in the zone and probably a bit scared by losing the car 3 times in the morning, and not knowing how much I could push it anymore, so I only got down to a 1:36 when the car is apparently good for around 1:28 or so.
Here's my best 1:36.08 lap:

Another day at Laguna, lots of nice cars:

those 2 cars were really fast (down to 1:28)

Kevin's car

First time I see MSO on a track and a bunch of fast Mclarens (also down to 1:28):

driver's meeting

Chris nicely gave me some video coaching

This is the 488C I'm now renting from Fast Toys to replace my 458C GT3:

getting some fresh tires

Thanks to Track Toys for the event and the car.

So, I thought it'd make things easier by offering a bike ride up montebello across to black mountain to pagemill. Afterall I had gotten up in less than 1h30 last time (starting from home)....

Oh boy, there was the small detail that I hadn't biked in over 6 months, and that sure showed. My legs were definitely not strong and it took me an embarassing 1h55 to get to the top of montebello

21mn just to get to the bottom of montebello was already not a good sign

See ya, me, my carbon bike, and sleek shirt will see you later, haha

I was so out of shape that I took 3 short breaks

after a while...

finally got to the top

1h57, ooops!

Then we got to pagemill for the ride down, before losing sunlight

2h45 before going down, I was late

look what I found close to sunset, a bobcat!

beautiful

It took me forever to get home (3h45 in all), but got home at 21:00 in the dark :)

Thanks a lot Johannes for joining me and being patient.