USA EC: Estoril

Finally starting to get the hang of this Elise racing challenge, a good race for the first 5 laps or so with Parker in 11th place, was feeling good about the car until the connection kicked out on me for 2 minutes. Thats all it took. Looking forward to next season, if its half as fun as the last two weeks have been its going to be a great year.

Good Race all..

very tight in the front at the beginning, and made a few good positions from other driver errors.

Was sitting in 4th and fighting to keep my spot to Esteban Palacio who made a mistake a few laps from the end. Great racing with you.

Marko was involved in first lap mess and with 3 laps to go had caught up to me, and I was really hoping i would keep 4th as it would have helped me finish better than the MIA Francisco Z. But it was not to be

AND I PIPPED GLOBAL RACERS .. 8 v 1 in 5 races ! WOOOOOOOOOOT bringing MOB home a 4th place team finish!

Nice season guys

Very fun race. Thanks for racing clean Richard. I was wondering what happened. That's a bummer. I think you would have pulled away at the end though. Thanks all for a great race.

Colin,

Sorry about pinching you in the chicane. I didn't know you were inside. These mirrors suck!! By the way you did some nice racing.

Mike
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That was a lot of fun, chasing after Matjaz all race with Maciej in my mirrors. Matjaz was very smooth, with little in the way of errors to take advantage of - well done.

Too bad though about the first lap contact that put Marko off and ruined Mark's race too. Looked like Esteban got into Mark and the pinball effect took over. In any case it meant the fastest car in the race had a big handicap to overcome and Mark's fight for 2nd in the series was done; a shame.

From my seat the race up front came down to two things; staying out of trouble on L1 and then just not screwing up later. I benefitted from Matjaz's great start, as he got under Marko and that gave me an opening to go by too. The T4 mayhem then solidified the top 3 spots and it was chase on from there. Struggled a bit on cold tires but managed to get it together and close up on Matjaz bit by bit. Got a run off the last corner and took a look braking into T1 one lap, but decided to wait for a better shot. Didn't come as I screwed up in that miserable chicane the next time through and lost about 1.5 seconds. Gradually closed back up but it was too little too late. Matjaz had it controlled and won by making hay on L1 and then keeping it tidy and quick the rest of the way.

Really enjoyed the series, and love the Elises.

Awful race!
Didn't expect that kind of aggression at the start , Got hit in the back at turn 3 , and off to the sand , coming out to 19 place with my car slightly overheating damaged rear tire.
In the end , finished 4 :(

I did not have a lot of time to practice for this race, so I was happy with a 10th place finish. I found out pretty quick that car setup is important on this track. I was getting killed on the final turn exit onto the main straight because I could not stay on the accelerator like most other cars I was racing with (setup could have helped I think). I had fun though. Congrats to the points leaders.