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Week 6
Oct 18, 2022 4:51:07 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 18, 2022 4:51:07 GMT
Too much possible this week with the iRacing SCCA Runoffs @ VIR happening on Saturday with races for all classes all week. Mustang FR500S, Mazda MX-5, Formula Vee are possibilities for me.
I do get helped out by Sim Lab PCC being at Silverstone which I don't have.
Advanced Mazda is as VIR, too, so, cool, that helps, getting ready for Advanced Mazda gets me ready for the Runoffs.
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Week 6
Oct 24, 2022 6:08:18 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 24, 2022 6:08:18 GMT
SCCA Runoffs week combined with busy real life week was not a good pairing.
I overlooked the fact that the main events were limited to one 40 car split based on qualifying race points so I was ineligible for all of the Runoffs prime time races.
Regrettably, I got into a second round Formula Vee race in the evening by virtue of fewer than 40 entries. Went to excrement on the first lap having and ended with a 13X and a bottom half finish. What should have been the funnest race was a complete disaster, -0.45 SR and some iR loss.
I flailed away with the Mustang for hours, immediately went a 1/2 second quicker with a setup change but talked myself into a safer setup for the Sun 01:00 race which might have helped me escape with a 0X but wasn't fast enough to help me finish well enough to not lose iR. Had a great finish fighting for P3 though, came down to the last 3 laps and less than a car length at the line with me the loser. I'm so used to few entries in Sim Lab PCC Mustang class that the implications of only 5 entries didn't occur to me. The race was unofficial because less than 6 entries so no iR change but I did gain a small amount of SR, +0.06, probably the same as a Time Trial pays.
I had to get an Advanced Mazda race in to keep my Race Participation credit alive so I entered that at a convenient for me Sun 19:15. I made the same mistake as with the Mustang, safe setup ate up the front tires to the tune of a 6 sec gap down to 0.5 sec exiting Oak Tree on the last lap. I gently defended by car position ahead of Roller Coaster and kept it slow and tidy thru Roller Coaster to hold onto P7 with another 0X to lose a small amount of iR but gain back 0.18 SR.
As I type this, I'm taking a break from testing, might enter the Advanced Mazda race in 10 minutes.
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Week 6
Oct 24, 2022 23:33:12 GMT
Post by tomlory on Oct 24, 2022 23:33:12 GMT
I did enter a late night Advanced Mazda race. It went okay. I stuck with a safer setup that like the FR500S seemed to heat up the front tires so I got chased down from more than 6 seconds behind, down to 0.6 sec exiting Oak Tree on the white flag lap and just barely squeaked out P7 which I thought would be good enough to break even on iR based on 13 entries but we only ended up with 12. Maybe someone forfeited as I was pretty sure that I saw 13 race entries.
I was still up so when I saw zero entries for the next AdvMaz race so I signed up which made for basically a 35 minute test that paid some SR.
I ended the week A4.50 x 2261
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