Post Laguna Seca

good nights racing about 14 cars which made it a real full on event

my practice pace in the week was reel good
practice pace on the night was so close in the top 6 or so cars
didnt get my PB in Qually but saw some amazing times arive hoping for a 123.5 but some got into the 122s
like with heavy v8 racing there was a few bent panels through the field the old door rubbing and bumper to bumper action
like most weeks me and kiwi had some paint swoped
had a few door handle rubbs with webber
benny said cyas to us on race 1 gone out in front while the rest of us battled
most of the night was real close clean racing
to all for the night

thought i was going to really struggle here as in 1st practice i couldnt get below 1,26 and i didnt feel i would either......no setup change all of a sudden doing mid 24's then PB's of low 23's, ok hows that work not sure

Anyway sneaked in under the radar in quali after sneaking out on new tyres with about 2 mins to go a put together a superpole lap, think i qualied p4?

race one was over as soon as it started my graphics started stuttering real bad and although i hoped it would go i knew by t1 it was getting worse, so i exited, sry if i caused any isues

race 2 last on grid, still had stutter issues in traffic but managed p6 i think, was good fun and sry again to anyone if the stuttering caused any issues.

race 3 lots of mess at the start and i somehow managed to get the lead, the race was a worry as when id reset my graphics to cure the stuttering i hadnt realised no rear view mirrors....so a very nervous race trying to guess where everyone was, managed to pull a 4 or 5 sec gap on p2 at one point, but did my usual horrendous bad pit, which saw me drop like a stone finished p4

really enjoying the v8's and the guys driving them top job cant wait 4 more.......maybe next season a v8 UK invasion....donnington, brands thruxton, pembrey, cadwell, etc etc

Normally I would jump up an hour before qualy and practice from there. But for Laguna Seca probably in total did about 3 hours practice in total before qualy.

Did a great lap in qualy bet my pb by .6 first time running on low fuel and got into the 22's. Had a lap that was a tenth up on Webber for pole but ran wide final turn...

Race 1: I was looking good for the lead had a big moment under braking for the corkscrew did about 3 or 4 steering corrections at full lock! lol Managed to keep it straight and Benny just got past. That was the start of Benny's run for the lead. I was held up for the whole race and couldn't do anything to catch Benny. Had some good fun though and real close racing throughout the race

Race 2: I led pretty much the whole race but final lap under braking for the corkscrew my tyres punctured and lost the lead...

Race 3: Went from about 12th to 4th by lap 2 and on the run down to the final turn racer69 lost control and spun in the middle of the pack. I went left to avoid it but I got cleaned up and shoved into the pits. So I had to make an early pitstop and knew my tyres wouldn't last and plus damage was on for the pitstop and lost a couple of seconds from that. Had to make another stop at the end. I was going to change the front 2 and leave the rear 2. But I accidentally changed the rear 2 and front right and the front left wasn't changed. Punctured final lap had no chance of catching 7th, 8th and 9th place after that... Finished 10th and a bit disappointing as I set the 2nd fastest lap for the race Had the pace just didn't have the luck.

Good racing see you all next round

It was a late decision for me to run last night, only started downloading the mod about 6pm.

I'm usually pretty derogatory on all things V8Supercars these days, however i found the mod very well made, and had some great races with alot of different people I was probably guilty of trying too hard at times though.

I qualified in 7th, but early in race 1 i found myself in 2nd, and had a great battle with mini for a few laps. Had a lose at the Corkscrew which dropped me back. It was the same story with the other two races. I started from mid grid in all races, and always found myself in the top 3 in the early stages, before a few mistakes dropped me back.

Had a ball though, will hopefully make some more Saturday races in the future

Well last night was a shocker for my return to TTR.

Qual I felt reasonably comfortable doing 1:25's-1:28's. Qual 12th (I think)

Race 1 saw my graphical issues rear their ugly heads again. I had a black screen for about 15 seconds at the race start. Finished as the last of the runners.

Race 2 was no better. Having left to reconfigure the graphics I forgot to load my setup. So I struggled with the default setup (which I can tell you was no fun at all). Finished last of the runners again.

Race 3 I loaded my setup and was waiting to start when rfactor crashed so I didn't even get a seconds racing in.

All in all I liked getting some driving in with you all last night.

Well done on the VERY impressive sub 1:23's by Webber and M1N1K0B3.

Right I'm off to reinstall windows XP as 7 has given me nothing but trouble.

Catch you all next week.

Dev

Like the vid u got there Benny



There was more off roaders then I saw in my life time......wow

That was a pretty good race a lot of mistakes from me though