Well, life changes doesn't it. Just before the holidays my wife accepted a job in Houston. So after just a few months of planning, selling our house, and uprooting our life basically, we loaded up and made the drive from Toronto to Houston.
Settled into our new house, and I think it's time to finally get down to some racing. The nice thing is, I'll be home during the days for the time being, so I'm able to make the Euro races which is nice for my schedule.
So just in time for S8, I'm well overdue to improve that horrible ranking of mine.
Oh, I'm going to really miss Mosport as a spectator, any Houston area race fans to suggest where I get my fix down here?
Well, I've never written here since I first started with Race2Play, so I guess I'm overdue.
My friend Al and I, spent last weekend at Mosport for the American Lemans weekend. There was a time when by August we would have made four or five visits to Mosport, but not these days. This was the first race of a year for both Al and myself.
Fortunately, another friend was good enough to get us trackside passes, which gave us pretty much access to anywhere, including the pits. This was great, since we love to shoot photos around the track, and Mosport has changed in the last few years. What was once a place full of great spots to shoot from is quickly being surrounded by catch fences. This I'm sure is a result of insurance requirements, but also apparently to try and attract a Busch series race. Ah well, things change... Anyhow, with the trackside passes we were allowe [... more]
Well, four years have gone by since I've logged on to a server and competed against fellow sim racers. Four years ago it was my old Formula B series in GPL, tonight it was not too different, with the Advanced Trainers from rFactor.
I would have liked more practice going into the race, but I was fairly familiar with Brands Indy. I decided to simply try for consitency, running a full fuel load for both practice and qualifying. That landed me 11th on the grid of 15 for the race.
Then, the very slow start, I found my grid position after the formation lap and I took too much time checking my controls, as I looked up the start lights were green! Cars flew past and I found myself last into the first turn. No worries, steady as she goes...
And it worked to some extent, seemed to be a lot of off's ahead of me and I cruised by. Up and down a bit through the race, a [... more]
