Valencia Ameri Cup

Grads to the top! other than that forget it im surpised i still had 4 wheels.

couple more of these and im out, good god what a mess in back.

to bad to, had a pretty good setup that ive run 13 laps in a row a number of times under 131.5s... but after turn 2 incident and by the 3rd lap i had 2 or 3 guys spin right in front of me and .....smash. sry to anybody i hit but had no other choice and if anything was to kind out there 2night!!

take care and thanks again TIM Mc. for stewarding...hmm is that a word?
just by chance is there any blue flags that warn people during the race?

Congrats to the top.

Q suprised me. Start was great got up to third due to some crashing. Then I shot my self in the foot? no my face ;p I hit the inside curbs that I didn't touch in any practice and spun myslef twice. So stupid and embarassing just screwing myself...down to 19th. Great pace in the back guys very competitive had fun battling for my spots. Good racing KI and MC etc... I had a chance to gain some points and move up the board but I blew it :( UGGGHHHH
See you next time.
RA

You were not the only one RA...I moved 9 places in less than half a lap, was in 12th. position and outbraked a corner in the 4th. lap or so and into the wall....back to 19th. which is where I finished......arghh!... :)...

Great Race Dudes! What was that fiasco in T-2 on L1? I started in 7th and when that turn came up I saw carnage about to happen. As I braced myself, the cars infront of me spun and split like the Red Sea as I drove right through like in "Days of Thunder". It was a site to behold!

Good dicing with Garret & Scott(I don't know why he slipped back to me?)for the rest of the race. No major mistakes and finished just off the podium :( Great job Kevman on the win!

Congrats to podium.

This race was not much fun, my lovely Vista SP1 PC crashed on me twice (memory dump). Just got back into the game before race start -- dead last of course. Race started and fraps was reporting a whopping 8 fps, sometimes 5 fps (this is on a 3Ghz Quad Core with 8800GTX).

If my driving seemed erratic I do apologize to anyone close to me, at some parts of the track my system would pause for 1-2 seconds. I should have just bailed from the race, but I didn't know I had an fps problem til I was actually starting the race.

Anyway, sorry if I had contact with anyone -- I don't think I did, but I don't really know.

I'm in the process of wiping my drive of that POS OS called Vista SP1 and will be back on WinXP. Don't know if anyone else is running the official SP1 for Vista, but it has made all my DX9 based games unstable. DX10 games appear to work fine.

Grats to kevin on the win, man you were flyin!! I had good a qual. run, and got off to a good start. Kevin passed me a couple laps later and then i bobbled and had to give up 2nd as well, just couldnt quite get it back as my tires were fading fast at the end. GREAT RACE GUYS!!

Ok after looking at the replay it appears I bumped Scott at T2 (sorry about that Scott) but was glad to see you got straightened out before I got nailed.

Couldn't figure out why Scott was pinching me so bad to the inside of T2 but saw on the replay that you were pinched on the outside by Kevin. TBH I saw Scott and Kevin bumping down the straight before T2 so I backed off abit.

Bottom line I don't know what I could've done differently, if I would of slowed down earlier I just would've been run over from behind earlier. :)

Hey what are those lights for in the back of the car anyway?
LOL

Man. It must of been that chili I ate before the race hehehe. My car was hooked up. I failed to get a good lap in qual, but I didn't shoot myself in the foot this time and was happy to not start from last again.

I got one heck of a start and got up beside Scott(?) and we bumped on the exit. Got me squearly (was fun hehehe) and I lifted early to gather it back but was able to stay on the outside for T2. Then I saw carnage in the back and Mike "Cole Trickle" Monahan just blaze trough. Then I was able to pass Steve and Scott on the front straight within a few laps of each other and just cruise on the clear track.

Great race everyone. Cya next race.

I was happy to end up second last night, which was more than I expected after qualifying. Couldn't quite get into the groove I'd had in my morning practice, but that's the norm for me; I'm thinking a long day and a glass of wine doesn't work as well as a night's sleep and a cup of coffee! Was overdriving and hosing my exits, so I couldn't manage a sub 31 like I'd anticipated for Qual. Didn't think I'd get far into the 30's anyway, but knew some would. And they did!

I gridded in 3rd, and got a decent start on the outside. I think being in Matt's draft gave me a boost past Scott going into T1, and then the mess happened in T2 behind. That bought me some room, which I badly needed since my driving was crap the first few laps until I settled down some and the tires hotted up. Saw a car coming behind and figured it was Scott, but it turned out to be Kevin who was effectively in his own race. F.A.S.T! He disposed of me in a couple of laps and then went after Matt. Scott was next behind, but unfortunately we never got to race any since he had some trouble with lapped traffic.

Once Kevin got by Matt, Matt looked to be having some balance issues as his tires wore so I was able to close up and get by after he got out of shape a time or two. I just tried to relax after that and not make any mistakes to give the spot back. Finally got back down into the 31's later in the race when I quit pushing too hard. Always tend to get worked up and forget that whole slow in, fast out thing...

Kevin, I want your chili recipe! ;-)