Laguna Seca MX5

Good racing overall. Congrats to Eduardo - freaky fast times from him. I was stuck forever in the 45-46 bracket & wondering why I was so slow. Thankfully, during practice, I found what the problem was. I was steering way too much in corners. I then tried barely moving the wheel through a corner & dropped over 2 seconds instantly! I'm used to rfactor & other sims where the wheel rotation isn't multiplied.
I got into the mid 43s & qualified in a good spot. I was running 5th for several laps until I hit the wall with major damage. I did the fast tow but had to wait over 2 minutes in the pits. I was sure fast tow was available but I guess not. I finished the final laps with Charlie not far behind.

Great to share the track with so many great sim racers.

My whole race was about watching bush, jones and mueller dicing through the entire event.

nonetheless a PB for me in LS with the MX5 Cup.

Thanks Charlie and I'll see you in Lime Rock.

to admin: at least you could have left a note after editing my post.

15 is a decent turn out for a first event. I knew the list would dwindle down. I am so bummed my gear was all packed up for my move. Cant wait to mix it up in the last few rounds with you. Congrats to all the Kamikaze boys...

Qual went horrible. Had to start dead last. On my way up through the grid I got along side my teammate Ray and touched him. Sent him off course damaging his car. Sorry Ray!!!! Ended up 4th due to some faster drives dropping connections. Was a lonesome race after the 1st 5 laps for me. I did touch the 1:43 lap times which i did only a few times in practice, so I was happy about that.
Sorry again Ray!!!

Congrats Eduardo on a great win!

Also, thanks to all that showed up. In the beginning I said I would be happy with 12 to 15 racers show up and we achieved that.

Not sure what happened in the results, but what is shown there is not how we finished. Not sure of all the positions, but I know for sure that Pierre finished in front me & Prado won. I will look at the replay when I get home tonight and check it out. We also were experiencing some bad ping rates with everyone with the exception of just a couple of guys, so I will look into that too.

My race was a disaster. I had great lap times for me and managed to Q 3rd. But when we were on the grid I had a little foot itch and the car nudged just a hair. Then I got the stop & go penalty before the race even started! I watched the replay and you barely see my car move at all on the line. But that’s racing I guess. Then when entering the pits for my stop & go, I forgot to set my pit for no service before the race. I always set that but for some reason I failed to do that. After finally getting back on track way behind, I just couldn’t run in the 42’s like I was in practice and Q.

I did watch the replay and there were some great battles out there in the pack. I was so pleased to see that everyone handled the first turn great. No dive-bombers! Bryce & Ray did have a coming together at one point though. Not sure why you two guys ran side by side through the kink though. That never has a good ending.

One thing I will remember about this race was that was probably the most fun on Team Speak I have had in a long time. Many great laughs with some very fun guys. I hope that continues. It was some bright moments in a otherwise dreadful race for me.

Thanks again to all that raced and I hope we can continue to race this series with as many drivers and great racing that we had at Laguna Seca.

Totally my fault. You'd think after 10 + years of sim racing I would learn to lift....and wait till next time

Now I just noticed that if you go to racing on the home page, click results, they are correct there? But not when you go to the race report? Even here is says I finished 11th if you look above this post. But the results show me 9th. I know I finished 11th.

Thanks everyone, especially Charlie for bringing this together.

First official iRacing road course event on R2P and we got 15 drivers so i was really happy about that. And we had for a moment 30 signups so it's a sign that it can get bigger.

For drivers used with rFactor, iRacing can be something rather difficult to get used with, i had my share of that but with practice things get better. Don't know if it's some coincidence but the top drivers on iRacing (at least on road side) came from LFS.

I really want this to work out, and it was a great beginning, me and the guys from BPT are on iRacing for a couple years now so we'll try to help the newcomers as much as we can, so if anyone has doubts about the sim, configs, wheel/pedals calibration, feel free to ask and we will gladly reply. I will try to record a lap for the next event, and post it on pre-race so you have something to compare.

About the ping yesterday, i noticed that we were using the european server from Netherlands, so probably Charlie forgot to select the US server when setting up the session, and about the results, i think R2P is ordering the grid based on race time, so the guys who finished one lap down are in front of the ones who finished at the leader lap. Notice that looking at the results at R2P, at the tab Class we will have MX5 (number), and that number is the correct finish position.

I forgot all about this...sorry

That was a hoot. Had a great time trying to keep up with Michael and John. They were faster but with all the battling going on between them it was hard for them to separate from me. I seemed to do better following them, whenever something happened that would allow me to get in front of one of them I would choke and make a mistake and there they'd go back by again. One time it seemed they both just let me by them so they could have the fun of passing me again. Good racing by both those guys.

Congrats to Eduardo for the win!