Dover 150

What no one got anything to say..lol..I had a blast tonight!!!What a fine showing by all.nice job!
Great Win for Conor,And a great job by Dan.They looked like they had fun.I was able to see them race all night long.As Mike and I went for the 3rd spot.Mike took it!!
I just cant wait for daytona!!Its been cold up here in New Hampshire.
And once agian let me say THIS IS TO MUCH FUN!!!!

After running my mouth I made a stupid mistake by running out of patience and making it 3 wide. Sorry to who ever I involved in that deal. I had probably a top 5 car but with a bad starting spot I could just never get out of the trouble and closer to the front.

Any chance of getting the replay posted?

Great race by Conor, Dan, and the rest of the lead lap guys. Well done at a very tough place.

Personally, even though I like the track, I knew this would be a less than strong event for me. With some better circumstances, a 10th was doable but my relatively unlucky season persists....like a bad cold. At least enjoyed it especially with the very very long stints w/ Ryan. Excellent racing, Ryan!

Very unfortunate hand of cards dealt to my teammate, Mike.

Daytona next gang. Seat time, seat time. HRH indicated 24/7 server.

Great race, congrats.

I crashed on my second lap of Q which stuck me in the back of the pack. So after 20 laps or so I was lapped, never to return to the lead lap. Fun racing though everyone was carefull but aggresive.

Good race Joe we were close the whole time. I got squirelly a few times slowing you down and once I went wide and bumped you into someone else which cause a wreck, sorry.

I made some passes and gained spots due to crashing. Luckily I avoided all crashes and my damage was all from hitting the walls a few times. I think I stayed out of the way to let the leaders through safely but still kept up my speed.

Gotta be sure to Q with a real lap next time! See you...

RA

Tom Middleton, the incident we had, if I did not give you enough room or turned down on you, VERY sorry. Sorry to everyone that was caught up in that mess. The second or third caution I think it was.

After that brought it home to avoid the DNF.

Team Socal is off to Daytona for prepreprepre race testing, going to avenge the Dega Dissappoint...

Great race boys...Had a blast with Dan nearly the entire race. Similar to the race I had with Jeremy at Charlotte. Close the entire time and completely clean.

Practiced quite a bit for this one. Was really happy with the set and was getting good times in the mid 22s. Got a nice time in qual and grabbed the track record as a result.

But for some reason, the car was somewhat incompetent in the race. It would handle real well in the first few laps, then would get super tight on me. And racing closely with Dan made things a lot tougher. In the early pit stops, I focused on making small changes to the setup like tire pressures and avoided any major tweaks. But none of that really helped and Dan had my number most of the time. The only cases I would get up to him to his bumper would be in the later stages but with the amount of cautions we had tonight, my pressures never got up to their optimum.

Nonetheless, I kept it close to Dan...never letting him out of my sight, despite him being faster than me. With about 12 laps left, a caution came out and the last pit stops commenced. I bit the bullet and made a wedge adjustment which was something I was trying to avoid the entire race. Luckily I came out in front of him and when the green came out, I never looked back and pushed the car as hard as I could. Fortunately, the wedge adjustment worked and was able to keep pushing the car without it getting overly tight. Got out to a decent lead and came home with a hard fought victory.

Once again, great battle there Dan. Look forward to dicing with ya again :)

Grats to everyone that finished...Dover ain't easy :)

Off to Daytona in two weeks. Got some work to do...

I didn't qualify brilliantly so I made a conscious decision not to push the car any harder than I felt absolutely necessary. Ran in a static 14/13 position for the majority of the first couple of stints paying particular attention to the car's handling in the draft, working out people's lines etc.

Around mid race I decided to stay out on a caution and took the lead for about a lap until Conor, Dan and Tom blew past me as if I were stood still. Wound up around 8th place for quite some time and a decent points finish looked possible... Until like Tom I was awarded a speeding penalty (although I actually DID speed LOL!) and slipped back to tenth. Was a shame because looking at the results I had the pace in the closing laps (where I was really pushing hard to fight back to 9th place) to have made it into a 5th/6th kind of finishing position.

Must make an apology to Francesco for the little nudge I gave him going into T1 early on in the race. It was completely unintentional and it pissed me off that such a tiny tiny tap would spin him round. Sorry mate. There was another hairy moment when Chris Melton got a little too close after we passed a lapped car and got into my rear. It did him more harm than it did me so I guess Kharma was on my side this morning.

Terrible. I knew I would not be in contention for top5, but I wanted to stay afloat in top10 for points. I had a problem very early on (Jon, we are cool-- it happens, on short tracks it could have been easily the other way around). Fortunately I was able to pit under yellow, but my car was bad. Then, shortly after my pitstop, I noticed nothing was happening with my whisper button and I could not get vehicle tabs, nor switch my HUD functions-- my freaking batteries on my wireless game pad attached to my G25 died, so I lost like 8 functions. This made me a little dizzy as I was trying to figure out things. I said, fine I 'll just do my race and try not harm anyone. It was kind of funny because I had no idea of where I was, who was behind or in front (my hud was stuck on pitstop mode). Then right when there was a yellow (I think Tim had just stepped away for a second) everything froze and my computer crashed. I am gutted. This is the second race I DNF in a row because of non-racing issues (the other was a non-stock car race). It's very depressing when you had put in all that practice to find a tenth and then this. Very depressing.

I just stunk.

Car was pure evil and I just did whatever I could to 1) Stay out of the way as best I could and 2)Run laps and gain experience.

Got in to someones left rear not too far in to the race. Complete accident and he made a brilliant save. Stayed out of trouble till the last restart. I actually had a run on couple cars but they closed the door really hard. I had to lift, trailing throttle oversteer - over corrected, snapped hard right and I bumped someone. All I could do at that point was pin it to stay as low on the track as I could to let others by.

Wish I could say it was fun, but it was not. My lack of set up experience really cost me here. Congratulations to all that finished.

M

Sorry to many. I had a great car.....until I got loose in T2 and smacked the wall hard, damaging all the sheet metal on the car. Had a devil of a time trying to dial the thing back in with wedge and air pressure adjustments. Once I finally took out enough air in the right rear, it was much better, but not before I had some spins, although I never brought out a yellow. Was pretty lucky to not get hit and managed to get the car low and out of the way. But now I would come out of the pits with fresh tires, and some guys may not have realized this and continued on their lines. As I moved out of the groove to pass on the outside, I'd loose it. Happened twice before Tim ordered me to the pits and adjust some more. A little wedge adjustment and it tightened up. Now back to the track again on fresh rubber. This time I was able to move outside with no problems....until I got such a pace going that I got into the back of Mike Arn and Joe DiPino. Sorry guys, I definitely was impatient at this point as I was battling 2 drivers at the back and was getting frustrated that I killed my car. I'm sure that's not the excuse you guys were looking for, but it is what it is. I had a podium car if I didnt take myself out of competition AGAIN.