Race 1: Tue 2021-11-02 18:45 Porsche Cup @ Red Bull Ring
Three splits was the deciding factor for my entry. Avoided a divebomb collision Lap 1, T2 as I saw it coming. Can't remember anything else.
Q13 / R6 / 6X / -0.09 / +62
Race 2: Tue 2021-11-02 22:30 Sim Lab PCC @ Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Classic Pits / Pontiac Solstice
Good, clean race with
Claudio Jardim. I was after Safety Rating, assumed that I was quicker than Claudio and didn't want anyone behind me so I let him go at the start. He smartly defended the inside for Les Combes / braking at the end of Kemmel Straight for the entire race, the best I could do was get side-by-side once through the chicane but he held me off.
Q1 / R2 / 0X / +0.16 / -54
Race 3: Tue 2021-11-02 23:30 Sim Lab PCC @ Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Classic Pits / Pontiac SolsticeSR maintenance race, no other class entries.
Q1 / R1 / 0X / +0.16 / +0
Race 3: Wed 2021-11-03 18:30 Sim Lab PCC @ Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Classic Pits / Ford Mustang FR500SThis was a great race until the second chicane of the last lap at which point it became a crazy finish. I qualified first but with cold tires on lap 1 I half looped it on corner exit from Rivage, to slap the inside wall with the right side of the car and drop to P6. I got back to P3 where I had great race with
?? in a similarly beat up car. That lasted till the last lap, second chicane (Chicane) when P5 got into P4 who knocked me (P3) off and around as he got spun. I floored the throttle as I was going around and got pointed in the right direction and on the racing surface but either something was broken or bent or the rear tires overheated and I about 1/4 spun exiting the chicane to my dismay as the two cars passed. Luckily for me, about the same time that P5 set off our incident, P1 and P2 had gotten together on exit from Chicane and were stationary in the middle of the track amidst a clusterfuck of at least 4 cars heading in all directions with two or three more collisions and I exited the chicane in third place. Without P5 ruining it for us, we would have likely been 1, 2, 3 across the finish line. It is a DISADVANTAGE to enter a chicane too close to the car ahead.
Q1 / R3 / 6X / -0.10 / +33
Race 4: Wed 2021-11-03 21:30 Sim Lab PCC @ Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Classic Pits / Ford Mustang FR500S
Qualified on pole and set sail with a race lap PB. The Mustang was fun here, too.
Q1 / R1 / 0X / +0.15 / +58
Race 5: Wed 2021-11-03 22:30 Sim Lab PCC @ Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Classic Pits / Pontiac SolsticeSR maintenance race, no other class entries.
Q1 / R1 / 0X / +0.59 / +0
Race 6: Thu 2021-11-04 23:30 Sim Lab PCC @ Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Classic Pits / Pontiac SolsticeWas keen for a SR maintenance race. The entry list and in-car showed no other Soltices but we ended up with three. It took awhile for the faster two of us to trust each other and the eventual winner was had better pace but I was staying with him until I blindly took too much curb at T13 and had a big moment that let him get away. I don't know that I could have passed him but I believe that I could have stayed with him because of the timed gained in the draft. I believe that the driver was
Steven Henderson2Q1 / R2 / 2X / +0.04 / +8
Race 7: Sun 2021-11-07 22:30 BMW 12.0 @ Laguna Seca / BMW M4 GT4Jumped in with maybe 15 minutes of practice seeking a top half finish and a clean race. The parade lap was like a herd of cats, the car in front of me basically stopped with 4-5 car lengths clear in front of him. I took to the gravel to avoid him but I had to fight to get back in 2 positions further back which had me in a bad mood. On lap 1, someone spun to a stop in the middle of the track exiting Corkscrew. One car went left, I went right and cleared but got clipped in the left rear which sent off to the outside of T9. I somehow managed to lose it getting back on the asphalt with the car snapping hard left right into the path of a car entering T10. It's only a 12 minute race so I was only mad for 12 minutes. Not one second of fun.
Q7 / R9 / 5X / -0.11 / -2
Race 8: Sun 2021-11-07 23:30 BMW 12.0 @ Laguna Seca / BMW M4 GT4
Redemption race. Not much funner than the first, hating the shifting with this POS, in between gears in at least two corners compounded by refusing to downshift. No fun at Laguna Seca which itself sucks for automobile sim racing more often than not.
Q6 / R4 / 4X / -0.08 / +43
Race 9: Phantom race; I quit, withdrew and verified that I wasn't entered. More angry about this than the incidents with other drivers and my own mistakes. Thanks iRacing.
Q0 / R0 / 0X / -0.00 / -58
Ended the week B / 4.38 / 1500