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Post by tomlory on Feb 13, 2024 4:59:05 GMT
Ray eSports SCCA FV and Global MX-5 @ Sonoma Tuesday evening if I finish work in time.
I don't have any officials to run this week but Skip Barber F2000 @ Spa, Sim Lab and Skip Barber FR500S @ Philip Island are interesting.
I'm skipping Sunday league racing this week.
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Post by tomlory on Feb 19, 2024 0:45:47 GMT
Done, can end on a good note.
Officials were fine again this week.
Practicing with the Mustang FR500S @ Philip Island led to signing up for what I was hoping to be a relaxed race by myself but that ended up being 3 of us and I blew my quali laps to start last. Pole went early and went with him and was able to take the lead @ T1 and very slowly extend it. It wasn't till the last lap that I was able to relax. Great pressure from behind and no scares.
Similar thing with the Skip Barber F2000 @ Spa. Just lapping with Coffey when the timing and the grid size was right so signed up for a race.
There was only time for one qualifying lap which I was very careful with to avoid starting last again so gridded P4 but believed that my pace was good. Standings starts usually benefit me. Even with the super easy Skippy, I gained a position ahead of T1, held it, broke away with two others who were savvy enough to cooperate until we had a comfortable gap over P4, afterwhich there was lead change almost every lap. I tried getting away at the front but couldn't, chose to be 3rd on before Eau Rouge (sp?), was far left with us 3-wide approaching the 1st chicane believing that the others had saved their late braking for the end and I left it too late, aborting my turn in and running across the grass for my race to be ruined by the idiotic iRacing slow-down system that penalized me 15 car lengths after I had already given up two positions and obviously gained none. It is possible that it best to not have the lead all the way to the final straight but that seems a far more difficult pass to pull off and I felt that I had good pace in the section between the two chicanes.
I did indeed abstain from league racing.
I ended the week 4.74 x 3108
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