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Post by tomlory on Aug 16, 2022 7:10:38 GMT
Fun ones this week and one is free GT4 @ Road Atlanta (30 minute sprints during the week and 120 minute on the Fri and Sat) and Sim Lab PCC @ Daytona legacy.
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Post by P Sweeney on Aug 21, 2022 17:40:06 GMT
I'm unable to make it Sunday tonight sorry guys
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Post by mikec1 on Aug 21, 2022 19:29:03 GMT
I probably won't run tonight either. Summer stuff
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Week 10
Aug 21, 2022 22:38:19 GMT
via mobile
Post by tomlory on Aug 21, 2022 22:38:19 GMT
I'll likely be on late (22:00 at the earliest) working off a messy Michelin Pilot Challenge race. I think that I was the one with computer issues cars disappearing at the start of race, had 8 or 10X, a tow and a Stop and Go before I completed two laps of the two hour race.
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Post by mikec1 on Aug 22, 2022 0:06:28 GMT
Ouch
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Post by tomlory on Aug 23, 2022 3:23:00 GMT
Five races for me this week.
The two hour Michelin Pilot Challenge race with the BMW M4 GT4 @ Road Atlanta, one with the Mustang FR500S and three with the Solstice @ Daytona.
The MPC race started off disastrously as mentioned above. I think that I was the one with computer issues cars disappearing at the start of race, had 8 or 10X and a tow before I completed two laps. During the formation lap, the car gridded directly in front of me was warping all over the place and I think that the car behind ran into me for a 4X. Then right at the race start, basically all of the cars ahead of me started blinking in an out and I put two wheels off the inside of T1 and spun across the track to the grass on the outside of T1. I assumed that resulted in contact with others cars as I hard time getting going again. I gingerly regained the racing surface, very slowly and very parallel to racing line but got clipped by a TC car which completely ruined my car so I had to get a tow. I guess Quick Repair was enabled because I was back in the pits pretty quickly (IIRC) and was stationary for only a moment.
Not long after that drama, the rubber band that pulls my shifter in the upshift direction broke so I ran the race having to hold the shifter in the neutral position until I figured out that I could relax after I completed a downshift. If I let go after an upshift, it would downshift and hurt the engine.
I kept it clean the rest of the race except for two wheel offs and a pit exit blend line violation rejoining the race after my first fuel and tire stop. I was watching my mirrors more than the track ahead, I served the penalty immediately.
The Lory Electric Racing BMW BMW M4 GT4 wanted to steer left on the start/finish straight but somehow I didn't notice it elsewhere. My practice pace had been 1:26s but the best I did during the race was a 1:27.904.
Despite all the bad, the race worked out okay. Deeper into the race, I was mindful of being 10 laps up on the closest car behind and two laps down to the closest car ahead so the pressure was limited to being respectful of other cars and their races. I ended up 11th in class, enough to gain a little iR. Thanks to 78 laps and 13 (?) corners, the SR hit was a less than I feared @ -0.14. Two hours at my level does play out like an endurance race.
My race with the Mustang FR500S should have been a win. During qualifying, I ever so slightly put a tire in the grass exiting Bus Stop which erased what would have been a PB, pole and my first 2:03.xxx lap but instead I gridded P2. The worst part of that was that the pole sitter lost control leaving the grid and slammed into me, caving in my left door and quarter panel at the very start of the formation lap. The aero damage made me a sitting duck and I easily got drafted and passed on the last lap.
The Soltice races @ Daytona were intended to be no pressure, 0X to regain SR.
The first one was exactly that. No other entries (cherry picked) so very easy if a little boring.
The second one was far more interesting. I again expected to be alone but found myself paired with Sebastian Hollmichel (A3.78 x 2724) expecting to be thoroughly outclassed with a high two-digit iR deduction at the end of the race. He passed me pretty early in the race but thanks to some speed and the draft, I was able to stick with and pressure him but I doubted that I could pass and pull away. I had a few opportunities at least to pass but they would have been negated after Bus Stop. On Lap 8 (of 12) I got a run on Sebastian out of T1 just as a Mustang was catching us. Sebastian took an overly defensive line to T3 (2?, the slow right) and maybe Mustang got confused and they had an awkward moment that sent Sebastian wide with a big loss of momentum and I was able to run through unhindered with the biggest gap of the race. That evidently became pressure from the front and Hollmichel spun exiting the infield to give me a 9 second gap that I mostly maintained to the end. Fun and fruitful race.
The third and final Solstice race started with some worries. Their multiclass and unofficial wave starts often make for unsportsmanlike race starts. I again expected to be alone based on entries ahead of the close of registration but found myself paired with two other cars and needed to finish P2 to avoid losing iR. Only one of those two gridded which left me wondering if because of the wave start he'd start the race from the pits significantly ahead and the other guy seemed to have no clue how to behave on the rolling start, slaloming to heat his tires and then passing all of the visible to me cars ahead. I had to type and drive to scold him to "get back here". The car that missed the grid never appeared in the standings and once we completed a race lap, I was able to forget about him. Eager Beaver D driver remained a worry so I just followed him until I believed that I could pass and gap him. Not long after I accomplished that, he quit the race.
I ended the week A2000 x 4.44, the highest iR I've attained but I have a lot of work to do to restore the SR back to 4.99
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