USA FBMW: Valencia

Good race, congrats RA and TC!

Well Q'ed fine, start was good, survived any first lap madness, missed a few spinners and laggers, saved my tires and maintained a 2 sec gap to PH, got close with a few laps left and was able to get past for the podium! Good race for me, I haven't been so composed in a while.

PH good race! I caught up (within 1 sec) 3-4 times but would make a small mistake and fall to 2-3 seconds back. There on lap 14 I was trying to stick my nose in a bit and scare you... I guess it worked because you locked up or maybe tried to block but sorry for the contact. I slowed down a bit so you could stay close for the last lap and try a desparate move if you wanted but you cruised.

Great race, I'll try to get in another FBMW before the end of the season.

RA

My qual was ok, screwed up my flyer that would have put me into the high 38's, but I knew there were some really faster qualifiers in da house tonight so was pretty happy to get 2nd spot.

My start was as expected, slow (tall 1st) - didn't want to give up my 1st gear just for the start so I suffered a slow start which Tommy took advantage of and passed me into T1 but on exit to T1 one looks like he lost some momentum and I got a good run into T2 to re-take 2nd spot.

Vincent took of in 1st, I kept him in sight but didn't think I'd have the speed to catch him. Then he made a mistake and I got a good run on him for the pass into the lead spot. But Vincent was soon on my tail pushing me hard -- then suddenly Vincent was gone? Next thing I know Tommy is in 2nd spot.

I had about a 2 sec gap, not much in these cars, so I couldn't afford any mistake. Then towards the last few laps I started making small mistakes in the mid section right hander and Tommy was on my tail. There were some sections of track I was faster and some sections he was faster, fortunately the section I was faster was the exit onto the front straight which made it very hard for him to get a good run on me.

But what a close finish and great fun!! Really enjoyed this race. Congrats to Tommy and Ryan and all those that finished.

I had an ok qualifying section. Setup was not exactly where i want to be on the back end of the car but still managed to pull off a pole lap. The start was ok. Keeping 1.8 - 2 sec ahead of Rob until disaster strike. Unforced error allow Rob to go through. Then another one put me even further back. Then confusion started. Took the line I always took in the entry of T1 and didn't realize the mid corner speed differential to the person infront(i think it was Dan.. sorry Dan). So off again.... Then even more confusion... Took the entry line in T1 and keep the speed to pass someone at T2, got handed a drive thru penalty cause it's considered out of track passing. Didn't realize that as almost everyone was taking that wide line to T1.

Anyways, going into pits is another fustrating issue. I thought RACE07 automatically take care of Pit speed limit but guess not, got penalize 3 times for speeding in pit. So fustrating end to a promising start. But it's fun while it last. Looking forward to next race : )

Congrat Rob for the great drive to win : )

Was battling for 5th with Mueller, and then 2 to go and wouldnt ya know it I got spun from behind. Oh well, guess ill be a little more impatient and agressive like some others in this series from here on out. Grats to the podium. Good clean fun racing until the end, happens tho I guess.

Good Racing, very fun night.

I'm very happy with the result, most of the race was pretty smooth, at one point in 4th W. Hin Wong glitched and then suddenly re appeard right in front of me, not much to do other than ride it out, not sure what happened, I need to check out the replay, it may have been a network drop somewhere.

Other than that, I just tried to be clean and drive the track. Ryan made good to push me near the end, I should have let him by early and saved some tires, I don't think either of us had any grip left on the last lap after I slid through the last turn in front of him. Thanks for the tire shredding action in the last 4 laps Rob - I was loosing grip, made a mistake and you we're all over 3rd. Good pressure and patience, I don't think you touched me, I just over cooked the rear on turn in.

My computer crashed before qualify so I re-entered the server just at the beginning of qualify session, when I drove out of the pit I found out I was with auto gear! Stupid mine never know which key to toggle between manual/auto, so I struggled with the auto gear for the whole qualify session, I was happy to score a 9th place on grid, not that bad at all.

Ok the race started, lots of actions in the first lap first few corners, several cars were taken out. After the first lap I found myself at 5th. After a while I was battling with Paul for 3/4th, once I closed the door too much and cause Paul to lose some time, sorry to Paul, then I settled at 3rd and maintained 2-3 secs ahead of Paul, but Rob and Tommy at the front were pulling away. Nothing special happened to me until my computer crashed on lap 9 :( Umm...not a good ending, but the race was exciting especially the first lap chaos!

Congrats to Rob, Tommy and Ryan for podium finish, see ya!

Didn't practice much, but 3 1/2 to 4 sec off the leaders pace is just plain ugly. Q'd on the 10th row so the odds of it getting worse vs better are increasing, lucky me.
DC

well im all done with this series.
Was turned down on I think 4 times in a little over 2 laps, had ppl that were off in the sand come back to block me.

I do have to say sorry to Garrett as I had contact with him in T3 of the 1st lap,I saw you and somebody else get into it before turn 3 and had thought you were going slower into the turn, sorry again.

As for the rest of the races...nah I'll pass, as theres very little give and take..well theres take as in take someone out. :(
Corners speeds are drastically different between racers, personally I think this is the series that one should have to have a decent driver rating to enter rather than the stock car chal.
Anyway off to enjoy some other racing.
The lesson I"ll take from here is dont slow down for nothing, sadly.