USA Rhez: Toban #2

I threw it away... twice. :-(

Ugly, ugly, ugly.

Qualy:
Slow, I have no idea why. I couldn't get a good lap, and it wasn't because I was being held up. No idea.

Race:
Even worse.

I get a good, but not great start. Heading into turn one, I think the cars in front of me are slowing faster than I can slow, so I go into avoidance mode... forgetting that there are cars *all* around me. :-( I then play ping-pong off of James Watson and Paul Burns. Sorry guys. I hope I didn't break your cars. I proceeded to spin, slam into the wall and bust my car in several ways, the most interesting being the rear wing came off. Interestingly, the car handled almost as well without the wing. It was a bit looser, but it probably needed to be. Did a sympathy spin on lap two to lose even more time.

About the only good thing came on lap five, when I got past Paul Burns going into the final chicane after he had a bobble in the prior corner.

*sigh*

I still love these cars, though!

Congrats to the podium!

Qualified where I finished on Race 1, was having a good run, but I was hit the first time by a car that went wide and in the middle of the turn he decided to turn right and hit me on the front end and my car spun, lost 2 places, so I saved the car from doing a 180 and went again to gain the spots I lost....Then a few laps later, I was making a clean pass on another fellow driver, and he decided to be aggressive and hit me on the front and there I went again, another spin loosing this time 6 positions....I pushed hard and I hit the wall loosing the rear wing, but I ended gaining a couple of spots...

Anyways, this is fun!!! Congrats to the Top 3 in both races...

See ya next time!
OG

Yes William I threw it away on lap 5 and spent the rest of the race trying to catch you. You had pretty good control without that wing. We both hit the sweet spot on lap 8 and pulled off low 1:17's.

This race was better, but not what I should have been able to do. In qualifying I got into the 16's but my race pace was still nowhere near what I was able to do in practice.

I got a good start, but I got taken to school by the other competitors.

Turn three: if I tried to take the fast line someone would come down low, and if I tried to take the inside line someone would just go around me. I like racing up near the front much better than at the back, I think I learn a lot more about race-craft.

I got into a great battle Tom Studans and had the time of my life. He was really putting the pressure on me, I seemed fast on the run from three until the hard banked right hander, but he was certainly quicker than me out of there until the straightway, and he totally had my number at turn 3. The racing was incredible.

On the second to last lap Tom got by me, and I was determined to get him back. Unfortunately I got desperate and tried a move that was not going to work, ever. I speared Tom off the track and ruining a pretty good result for him. I pulled over off the racing line and waited for him to rejoin, all the while a bunch of cars went through. Then I finished behind Tom.

Once again sorry about that Tom, but up until then it was Awesome racing with you!

My Heart can't take too many races like this. Lap after lap, nose to tail.

Wow.

You can see what finially happened in the screenshots, but just unbelievable. Lift for a millisecond and you have 2 people pass you.

Also in the mix, besides Kevin and Frank, was James Watson and ,in the last lap or 2, Michael Bush.

Great Stuff once again.

Yeah I was still mis-config'd for this one as well. Sorry again guys.

I used Wyatt's setup from the previous race to qualify and didn't do as well. I went back to TC's from the R2P downloads and did better in the race. Good racing with everyone

Well don't feel bad Tom, you weren't the only one misconfig'd. Hopefully we'll all be on the same playing field at Lime Rock.

Boy, tough race.
Couldn't qually worth a damn, then totally botch up lap 2.
Not only damage myself, but kill Matt Adkison's suspension when he T-bones me. :(
Sorry Matt, I'm sure you couldn't avoid it when the crazy old coot slid across the track backwards in front of you.

Jim-

Dont worry about it, It was a mercy killing! I had practiced alot earlier in the week but worked more on my line than on setup, found out that i had brought a knife to a gun fight. I had loaded Wyatt's set for race 2 but had not got a feel for it in the one lap i ran.

It is fustrating, Im 6 races into my R2P career and ive been consistently 2 seconds or so off the pace from mid-pack. I guess it will just take time, im coming off a long layoff from sim racing with a background mostly in Papyrus roundy round action. Even though im getting spanked im here to stay, R2P is the cleanest online racing ive found in 10 years of racing online!