Lime Rock Park Multiclass

Can't say it was a fun race. Quals were great though, managed the first time on my last lap. Nice fight with Charlie and Douglas.

In the race I started in front and managed a 3 sec gap from Douglas. Charlie seemed had some issues also. In some point I reached Paulo who had obviously problems with his connection and missed the quals. He mentioned to me his problems previously from the race but I thought this was only occassional.

Thinking about everything else than the race I made a silly mistake lost control and crashed on the barriers. Pits were close, patiently I reached them and entered, but they could't fix it. Hit esc and then saw the "Race" button where I hit it again and I was back on track with the car magically repaired. Didn't know if this was legal, so I just left the race.

At least I saw live the Men's 100m final at the Olympics. :)

Grats Douglas and Charlie!

Hi Spyros - that would have been OK to reenter the race (as an FYI to everyone, we allowed 2 "fast tows" per race). I'm sorry you backed out :(

If it makes you feel any better about your mistake, I had an awful race full of unforced errors. Oddly I regressed from any progress I had made with the SRF from Saturday night's race. I think I've learned that I can't just jump into these cars with 15 minutes of warmup and expect to not make an error.

Grats Douglas on a nice win!

Yes Spyros, always rejoin if you can. Makes for more fun for all of us.

Qualifying was very close as the top three of us were separated by just 5/100 of a second. I sat in second till Spyros pulled out a fast time on the last lap to get the poll.

The start was very good and we all made it through the first turn clean. I had got a run on Douglas to make a pass to grab second, only to get a tire just a little off the track and had a lazy spin. I didn

Nice win Douglas, and congrats to everyone for a fun race - not counting Spyros' unhappiness - or that of Jan, who just can't seem to catch a break from his IP :(

While I'm starting to get the hang of this sim and the MX5 mod - great little car - consistency is still the key issue for me. Had some great laps chasing both Jim E and Jon U but in both cases, came through the big right hand loop after the s/f just a little too hot and paid the price for not being patient enough.

Would try the SRF, but until I get well grounded in the cars I have on my plate for the moment, no can do, sorry Ed!

See you next round!

Thanks all for the pats on the back following my first R2P win! It wasn't the best manner to pick up the trophy, but I think LRP was throwing me a bone for having once snatched defeat from the jaws of victory here by lazily driving off-track whilst leading with 7 to go. I feel your pain, Spyros!

Qualy went ok and I was on provisional pole until I got the "nice pole" kiss of death. ;) SD went out to finish the session and I went from Gaga to Yiayia in the blink of an eye.

The race started nice and clean. I was not really getting a grip on the car at the start which allowed Spyros to pull away. I finally settled in and Charlie and I began to reel him in a bit. Then as we were about to head downhill into T7, Spyros' car was gone! It was just a blink and I barely lifted although I wasn't even close enough to make contact. Charlie, who was already eating up my exhaust, skillfully put the hammer down and motored past on the inside down the front straight.

It was shaping up to be a good one!!! Then Charlie spun in front of me. Then Spyros spun in front of me! This meant that I was next to spin! AHA! Not this time, Ye Gods of Lime Rock! Or something to that effect.

From then on it was an exercise in keeping the car shiny-side up.

One for my archives: Scoreboard! Nice touch, iRacing...

Being on TS was great and next go-around I will have my mic-button mounted or programmed into my wheel.

cheers!