iRacing Season 1 - Skip Barber @ VIR (Full) - Dec 22

[IanBassi]

Its one of those tracks with two clear cut overtaking places.  The one after a tree is a Nightmare,  I hate that corner.  Struggle with a late breaking point there.  T1,  I love it,  I felt very confident on the breaks onto that corner

[Truetom]

Had some contact right at the start which left my steering wonky, ...

Sorry Pops - that was me.  Squeezed in between you and TT at the start, was looking for TT and we touched wheels  I think I may have contacted TT as my car got pushed over to the right.

3 Legends side by side, eh? Epic.

...Then seemed to find myself in a group of legends but with Pops going off in the last corner myself and TT tried to avoid it but obviously didnt. Being mindful i was straight across the track i just tried to get back onto the grass before anyone else appeared.

Was it you that bulldozer then? Felt strange to be pushed around slowly on the grass before the race ended.

I finaly quit when I spun on my own and was a bit fed up of the car and track. Looking forward to Watkins.

[Don]

I always like VIR, not that I'm any quicker there, but like the flow to the track.
Seemed like there was a lot of cars spinning off during the first couple of laps I was lucky not have collected any! I was a bit hesitant on lap 2 and lost the car at the Oaktree, luckily I span off to the right and the following cars got past safely. Then I was behind my Team mates and thought that would make for some fun racing, but they seemed to get tangled up a few corners later and that left me to try chase Adam down, His car looked in a bad way and I was amazed how he could keep it running so quick! Think a bit later he went wide and I got by.
Richard Ames was then my target out in front after getting by earlier on, I tried to hang on/catch up but no doing. That was about all the action there was in my race. Other than battling with myself trying to make sure I didn't bin it lol.


(not a big fan of the next 2 tracks, but I'll try turn up anyways)

[ross.mcw]

Does anyone have a replay of the first lap that I can download?

Cheers, Ross.

[Paul Richards]

I have had a number of epic races this season, with Brian at Summit and Paul at Laguna both of which I came out second best. This one though was the best of all with the arguably more difficult track to drive going full tilt right on edge nose to tail for the entire race.

Qual went well. Was on a good lap when I came across Bully on the back straight I guess recovering from an off. I was able to pick up a draft which gained me a couple of tenths and got pole with a 2.11.2. I thought Paul was generally a bit quicker here but will I take it!

Race start went fine. I was a little bit cautious in the first few laps in the low 12s and Paul was all over me. Brendan was also keeping close contention too with me and Paul battling. Paul eventually got a good run out of the final corner on lap 5 so I decided not to contest it and he passed into T1. I assumed he would drive off so would string the 3 of us out a bit leaving me not to have to worry about Brendan. However Brendan wasn't going anywhere so it seemed like a bad plan! He then had a moment and dropped back 6 seconds leaving me to concentrate on Paul.

To my surprise I was able to stay with Paul quite well with the draft helping of course and was able to start challenging. I was a touch quicker through Oak Tree which enabled me to challenge up the back straight most laps with the aid of the draft up the hill. Lost count of the number of times we were side by side at the top of the hill. There was no way past though with Paul driving superbly especially in the final two corners giving me no chance to make a move into T1. I then got lucky, on the one lap I was able to stay close in the final corners Paul made a small mistake in T1. He slid and although he caught the back end expertly he went wide and lost lots of momentum. I happened to be right in touch enabling me to pass on exit. With I think 6 laps to go I went for it trying to pull out a gap in the corners so that Paul wouldn't be able to draft alongside in the following straight especially at Oak Tree. I have never been forced to drive so hard for so long to keep Paul at bay. A couple of times I had to go full defensive. I was putting in good times but Paul was constantly challenging. On the final lap I was expecting an onslaught so I attacked every corner as best I could to keep him away. Fortunately I stayed on track and it was the best lap I have ever done at VIR in the skip doing a 2.11.1 without a draft. Paul of course although not able to make a move was still in touch and with the back straight draft did an 2.11.0! Was hoping he would break into the 10s but it wasn't to be this time.

Fantastic race again with Paul it a pleasure to to be able to drive so close for so long. Neither of us tried any rash moves showing each other lots of respect and this meant for a great clean race albeit a very tough battle! Was delighted to get my first official win for the Legends and it was even more satisfying after such a tough battle.

I will be missing in two weeks time as at Winchester hospital with my wife having a c-section that morning giving birth to our son. I have to come home overnight but won't be back in time to make the race. Hope you all have a good one.  

 

[Paul968]

Does anyone have a replay of the first lap that I can download?

Cheers, Ross.

I've uploaded lap 1 here:

http://www.simventure.co.uk/KC/srouk%20skippy%20vir%20lap%201.rpy

[ross.mcw]

Thanks Paul!

[Ken Murray]

I will be missing in two weeks time as at Winchester hospital with my wife having a c-section that morning giving birth to our son. I have to come home overnight but won't be back in time to make the race. Hope you all have a good one.  

 

Some people get their priorities all wrong!! 

Seriously though, hope all goes well and the future f1 world champ comes in to the world ok!!

[Brendan]

I will be missing in two weeks time as at Winchester hospital with my wife having a c-section that morning giving birth to our son. I have to come home overnight but won't be back in time to make the race. Hope you all have a good one.  

 

Some people get their priorities all wrong!! 

Seriously though, hope all goes well and the future f1 world champ comes in to the world ok!!

+1 

[Paul968]

As Paul says, that was a fantastic race from start to finish.  Not sure why, but whoever was behind seemed to be quicker, not just on the straights but also in the corners. At first, when Paul was leading, I felt quicker in some places, but once I was ahead that seemed to turn around and Paul was putting the pressure on. After I slipped up and let Paul back in front I suddenly had more speed again, although not quite enough to get the place back. Paul did a great job on the last lap, just when he needed to, and left me no chance of a last minute challenge - great driving under pressure. Grats to him and to Brendan on another good finish to leave us 1st and 3rd in the champoinship. Big shame to see that Paul won't be there at Lime Rock - where's your commitment? 

[Burtoner]

Decent start then i lost it bit in turn 2 but kept it together, only for Ian to get through then spend next 6 laps behind him trying to get past and blocking and defending every side, so i quit indisgust.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Decent start then i lost it bit in turn 2 but kept it together, only for Ian to get through then spend next 6 laps behind him trying to get past and blocking and defending every side, so i quit indisgust.

If you truly believe he was blocking you should raise an incident report. It is not appropriate to discuss such things in public.

[ginsters sponsored]

Can anyone upload a replay of this race? Ta in adavance 

[Paul968]

I'll upload it, but it will take a while. I'll post a link when it's done.

[Paul968]

OK, you can get it here:

http://www.simventure.co.uk/KC/vir%20skippy%20221209.zip