CART: Road America

Grats to Eduardo, Norm and Bill

The term official means official and this means No Restarts...IF you believe this is wrong, please see the R2P Admins in the big red truck and ask for their response.

My race was ended due to an Teamspeak confrontation to why a restart wouldn't happen, this is totally unacceptable,my response was also unacceptable and my apologies to my fellow competitors. The term No Chat Means No Chat, no exceptions.

I have tried to be fair, partial and help everybody I can possible can w/ this series, thankfully we got Dennis C up and running just in time.

For some reason during qualy my monitor went wacko, after my qualy laps were complete I ESC and was able to jump back in w/ 20-seconds to go, and all this was moot, as a racer chatted for a restart 4-times on the formation lap and race lap, which in the rules is prohibited, and when it wasn't granted thru chat he jumped onto teamspeak and stated IF I dont restart the race he is quitting the series, along with other things said, in which he didn't have a single fact correct, GOODBYE, Knowing the rules is imperative, and not knowing them is a poor excuse, you will miss what we are offering in a race series.

Cyas In Cleveland

As stated in Pre-Race, my connection wasn't working tonight. It had been fine all day, long enough for me to hit a 1:40.4 in open practice this afternoon (a couple of people can be my witnesses on that, LOL!) but come half an hour before the race and of course, it stops working.

Absolutely gutted, I have no idea what the qual and race pace turned out to be, but I'm certain I had enough in the car and myself to go for the victory.

I will say that I'm glad I wasn't around to hear Jeff receive abuse from whomever was kicking off, I have said it elsewhere and I will say it again, Jeff busts his balls running this series and preparing for these races... show a bit of respect and turn up knowing the rules and regs.

Oh dear...

had a great car. was having a great race with David Carney. leaped him with both pit stops only to have him repass on my outlap. guess i should've learned my lesson the first time and pit at the same time?

then with about 6 laps to go the driver went missing...

i was on the front straight cycling my MoTeC checking tires, etc. and didn't notice the car drifting to the left until it was too late.

utter stupidity!

great fun while it lasted David!

grats to the podium.

really sorry to Nick for the side contact early on. Your car kind of jigged when I was going by and I over reacted, dipped a wheel in the grass, then came across and hit you. Really stupid mistake on my part and I'm quite embarassed by it. I know I'm better then moves like that :(

Thanks for the apology Matt, probably a good job my mike wasn't on at the time :-]

Fortunately I knew through experience that I could get a new wheel put on if I made it round, so crawled back to the pits and fixed the car as much as possible.

From there on in it was a case of picking up whatever places I could, but well surprised to finish 7th, a high attrition rate there.

Sterling work tonight Jeff under disgraceful circumstances by the sounds of it.

Tightened it up at the top though now!!

My race went well. I was'nt sure until this morning if I was going to race and spent an hour or so trying to get a set up. had an old one asked a few questions and came up with something ok.

Q session went alright one of my best times just missed a faster lap by a few seconds as session ended.

The start went good gained 1 position and just tried to be calm as the race settled in. a few people went off and I gained spots through attrition had a good battle with Barret we were running about same pace he got ahead during pitstops but as he came out on colds I was on warmer tires and soon caught and got by, nice clean racing!

this would go on for the rest of the race pretty much with the smae thing happening on stop #2. I had a slight off and Barret got by on my in lap I lost a good 6 seconds.

I made one spin on last lap while being lapped took my eyes off the road but I had a 20 second lead over P5 so no harm done.

I was happy to finish and 4th is a great result considering my lack of practice and I had no damage what so ever.

Congrats to Edurado on P1!

Gotta say thanks to Jeff and john for helping me get the files sorted out. Had a good time for the fist 20 laps or so. Mistake took me out.
Thanks guys

tryied to be cautious, but caught Jeff who was a sitting duck in a blind spot, just under the last bridge before the straight, i understand he had problems, but, i was...again dissapointed that my race ended up that quickly :(

seeya in cleveland, wide open track, so it might be forgiving... :)

Congrats to Eduardo, Norm, and Bill, clearly in a class of there own.

I was too loose on full boost, so I would set it to 1 on straights, then 2 in the corners. Near the end I saw Nick coming and I had to keep it set to 1 but it was too little too late and he got by for another position. Nice work Nick.

At one point going through the fast kink on the back straight, I saw Dennis ahead lose it, so I waited a tad longer then normal to see where he was going to end up before I got back in the throttle. I know this caught someone who was about to pass me by surprise, sorry about that it was not intentional.

I was having a reasonable run, holding 7th, setup was quite stable. Made a small mistake exiting the pits after my 2nd stop, and brushed the wall at T1. Then while limping along the back straight, it got away from me. Disappointing, but I am still learning. Cya at the next one :)