Alabama 200

I cannot believe the moronic driving displayed. This was the most disappointing race I ever witnessed.

Later...MUCH!

Game locked up, sorry if it affected anyone.

Well started off pretty decent. Qualed in the back as usually but the car was really good in the draft. It took forever to suck up to someone but when it did it really like being there. At the first caution when everyone pitted I stayed out and ended up in 4th surrounded by a bunch of condom cars (LOL Durex). But I realized right before the restart that I had a little damage to the front of my car. Nothing really major but just enough to cause a decrease in speed. Got pasted by a lot of cars and then found a nice place to just cruise. Slammed in to the back of someone on a caution. A car came up the track in front of him. Neither one of us had anywhere to go. That ended my night with the suspension so messed up that the car would even move. Oh well fun race while it lasted.

This was a dissapointing race. Didn't have a winning car, but at least a top ten. Just bad places at the wrong time. Was a little behind the cars involved in the first caution on lap 7 or so, thought I had the line good, but with the cars sliding I was hit on the side pretty good, and then was spun around and ruined the front. Wouldn't have been too bad, but with a flat rear it took forever to get it to the pits. That ended my day for the most part, but then 20 laps later, I was again at the wrong place for the mini-big one, and this time went far low, but still was hit very hard on the side. Almost parked it, since this time something really was damaged, but stuck with it, was 15MPH off the pace, so I got very good at staying out of the way the many times I was lapped. Had one more incident when Stibling was spinning a little, and I hit the wall one last time avoiding him, but at that point my car was a wrinkled mess and didn't hurt me any more. You get lucky sometimes, and other times it comes right back and bites you in the ass. Looking forward to getting away from the plate races for a while.

Apologies to Larry Anderson whom I accidentally hit too hard while bump drafting you. I've only been racing these cars a couple of months and I've never driven a superspeedway before.

I don't *think* I trod on too many toes during the course of that one. I tried to fight hard but was more concerned with taking the flag at the finish.

For some reason, my car become stupidly loose during caution periods and I span on two seperate ocassions. Need to look at my setups there.

Happy its over now we can move on to some real tracks that offer real racing

I thought every body raced well lot of side by side racing. Nice win Michael on last restart leaders got a little to far away or I think I could have ran with them had a good car. Well get ready for next race.

Ditto what Jeff said...

Grueling . . . I'm glad it's over. This was only my 3rd stock car race--2nd plate race--so I don't wanna ruffle too many feathers--becuase I know I didn't drive a prefect line every lap. . . but it seemed to me that a lot of drivers were just too fixated with drafting the car in front of them. If the car in front got a little loose and drifted up the track a little, then the car behind him would be lock-on and would also drift up the track--and if there was another car in the middle groove . . . adios!
Despite the frustration, the chaos . . . I kinda' had fun. I have to thank Dave Fridley who drafted with me during the last thrid of the race. Without the help my car was total crap!
I'd like to appologize to Mike Arn and Joseph DiPino--if I impended ya'll's progress in any way.
Well, there's always next race.

About the worst thing that can happen for me is to ruin a friend's race, and tonight I ruined Joe's race. I am so very sorry for that.
I was trying to stay with my train, I knew SoCal was coming strong and I did not want to let them get away single file, despite the fact that we were not in the final stint of the race. I overdrove my car and I think I slid wide and ran Joe into the wall: I have not watched the replay but I am pretty sure that's what happened. I tried to stay on TS after to talk to Joe about it, not that it would have made him feel much better, but I think he was pretty angry about it-- and justifiably so.
My car was too damaged at the last restart to stay with the top 5, but it really doesn't matter. I think it's best if I quit TPSCC and focus on F1 and GT-I. I hope that, despite tonight, overall you all will think that I was a fairly clean driver and I enjoyed running with you all.
Joe, again, I am sorry and if we are to run into each other on the track again in some other series, you know I would never intentionally mess your race up. I should have been more careful. I guess tonight I was one of the morons.