Vanport Challenge

Great job Tristan, Scott & Goran. :)

What's up with that start light?
Didn't anybody test this track?

Wow what a race. I started 32nd, dead last, after joining with 45 seconds left in qualifying. I had no clue what I was doing with my car at the start, I did 1 lap in warm-up, but at the start no one moved for a few seconds. I jumped up to 19th just at the green. As I settled into the car and began to get comfortable, my pace picked up and eventually I worked my way up to 10th right behind Rogier. Unfortunately, he spun in the high-speed chicane with 1 more lap to go and couldn't get going again. But I wound up 9th with catching Scott not even a "possibily if he spins". I criused the last lap and brought it home. I'm happy with any 32nd-9th race :)

Congrats Tristan, Scott, and Goran on their class wins.

Fun race that. Finally figured the place out half way through qualifying and knocked 2 seconds off my PB to grab pole. There wasn't all that much time between me and the 2nd ZR but 8 Howstons/Hammers managed to slip into that gap so I was about 40 feet ahead of the nearest ZR on the grid! Almost felt like cheating :P
Got a decent start, T1 was clean. I breifly got into 6th but Bas powered passed me on the back straight. I was able to sit right behind him for the next few laps just minding my business, then he lost it into the last turn giving me 6th and a nice empty space on the track, which was great because concentrating was tough (I just got back from a 5km run). My tiredness eventually got the better of me, and after James Watson caught me offguard chopping me off, my rythmn was messed up and I lost it a few turns later. Got back going but Rogier and Goran's Hammers had passed me. Goran was about 2 seconds a lap slower than me so I was all over him in the infield, and we had some nice close battles through there. We eventually caught Rogier but he threw it off at the last turn just like Bas. Eventually I got a run on Goran out of the Festival Turns and he kindly let me through. I quickly pulled away then drove safely to the finish.
Fun race! Cya next time.

Congrats Tristan, Scott and Goran. Good racing by all.

I nearly ruined Tristan's race on the next to last lap. He caught me to put a me lap down just as I was lapping another car. We ended up three-wide coming out of the Festival Turns. We sorted on the short straight, but I was focusing so much on not hitting him that I missed my braking point and hit him anyway! Sorry for that, Tristan. Glad you kept it straight.

The last two tracks should be just as "interesting" as this one. ;)

Congrats podiums!
Terrible race for me, made a few bad mistakes at the start which buried me, but glad not to DNF. I practiced with full tank only, then got used to qual load in Q so when race started it was just very different. So I spun in 2-3 places I didn't spin in once during practice, just happy feet I guess. I was almost in last when the game freezes, I alt tabbed out and 30 seconds later the game reloaded and I wa sin the wall, luckily only yellow damage ;p

Limped on home from there, trying to catch up but stay out of the way.

See you...
RA

Well this was my last race in this series...I'm to slow to be competitive - cruising for 20 or more laps and letting faster guys go by is no fun at all.
Have great time in future races and see you all in other series.