VHR: Richmond

Well, my championship chances were annihilated today. I got hit by everything but the pit car.

I worked, worked, and worked some more all day fixing my car and getting a lap back but it was all wasted when I let up coming out of turn 4 coming to the last lap when someone didn't let off the gas trying to take advantage and sent me spinning. I hobbled back around to the finish after having been flipped.

Ron, please send my lucky rabbit foot back. :)

Congrats on the win Brandon.

Great race, had a little bad luck at the start but it wasn't bad at the end. A little more laps... I woulda been screwed!!!

David I don't know what happened! I had TS crash and hangup repeting user has left channel,and it caused rfactor to crash to desktop and me to just being LOST for to long. Sorry for anyone I made contact with!

Yeah, I think that was when you came back up the track, and I spun to avoid you and my car stopped touching the pit wall entrance. That was scary. That's my car in these pictures.

My first race in this series and it was not what I expected. Felt there would be a lot of green flag laps and the opposite happened, I don't think I've ever seen so many yellows. Car was pretty fast but especially so on long runs, which we had none of. My biggest fear was that with all these cautions I would get caught up in other peoples wrecks and I did. First one caused major damage to the front end, 2nd one not as bad but still forced wasted time in the pits. Oddly enough the car was still pretty good, was still able to run 21.0's when I could get clear of traffic and I managed to stay on the lead lap through the whole race.

Last 10 laps were intense trying to get to the front and knowing Joseph was coming with fresh rubber but I managed to hang on for 3rd.

I think I don't understand the "no passing before turn 1 rule". I took that to mean you don't even put your nose past the guy in front's rear bumper, but I had guys shoving up way inside me going into turn 1, and one guy passed both me and the car in front on the outside going into turn 1. I was able to return the gestures later so it all worked out well in the end.

Never used TS before and it distracted my non-multi tasking old guy brain. I expect over time I'll get used to it.

Hope to be able to run some more of Tom's races in the next season. Really enjoy oval track racing, especially short tracks, just hope the number of yellows can be brought down some. Congrats to Brandon and Mike.

Thanks for coming out Johnny and nice finish.

The COT races are more difficult than some of those new to oval racing expect. They usually come out and run the CTS and GNS, then jump into COT and find they are more of a hand full than they can handle especially on short tracks.

If the guys that have problems would join the server I would be more than happy to help out. All that's required is showing up and asking for help. You can PM me if you need help and schedule a time if needed. I'm never the fastest but I do try to be the most consistent to give myself a chance at the end.

no Ernie you did nothing wrong the same thing happened to me my game went to desktop and my car just didnt slow down and it went right under you nothing that was our faults. dont know exactly what happened other than teamspeak went down.

Yeah, we shouldn't have had that many cautions. I take fault for one of them, as I was dodging someone and lost control.

Johnny, aside from what you saw in your first race, there is actually some pretty good racing usually. Unfortunately, I think people are liberal more often in their racing when they know yellows are on. And, at a short track, everyone forgets rules and it's easier to pick up positions and get too excited at the starts.

Tuesdays are always fun and it comes to setup and driving skill because there are no cautions. I like Saturdays too, but like tom said, it seems to be harder and sometimes people aren't prepared like they think they are. Still, there shouldn't be that many yellows.

I still had fun this race. I didn't really try to win or stay out front, but decided to keep restarting in the back to race with people. That was fun. You did well that the last couple laps keeping me at bay. You had a good car bud.

Good fun,I thought I had best car day before going into this race. Felt secure fast and good throttle control. Not today though,At times it seemed good but it had this thing if you didn't slightly let up Exiting the turn and get right back in it,It would come around. Still I had fun racing a few different times. I escaped out after starting to get lapped and for Me,Another thing to watch while trying to maintain control of THE BEAST,LOL. Just watched for awhile then heard someone say TS crashed...Right after he said that my TS went crazy! So I shut everything down. I think Toms advice is good about Trucks and NWS,After more experience then try COT again.