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Car: Riley MKXX Daytona Prototype or Ford Mustang FR500S
Track: Homestead Miami Road A
Practice: 18:45 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 19:35 (25 mins)
Race: 20:00 - TBC laps (90 mins)

Start: Standard iRacing double file rolling start

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Hmmm interesting choice going with A.... I wonder if this will make turn 1 less scary?

edit: After running a few laps it seems it does make turn 1 much better... the "A" section scares me more now though, lol. It's not a bad track for a roval really, can't wait!

Yeah - it was a toss up which road track we went with, T1 can be interesting in the B layout, and the last couple of corners can be interesting in the A ...

Should be quite a busy one - mustangs lapping in circa 1:37 with DP's nearly 20 seconds faster I think.

Fingers crossed I can make this one, I'm moving house 2 days before so it's 50/50 I reckon.

Aye - fingers crossed Pops.  Be good to get a increased turnout.  VIR on Easter Weekend was always going to be a poor showing.

finges crossed here too...  as my computer died (it seems) yesterday  :'(

I feel your pain Fred ... my SSD died on Sunday after the race.  Will RMA it and it was only hosting the O/S and a few programs so nothing lost - it's just really inconvenient.

GPU is burning that's why !! the cooling paste don't seem to do her work and the fan wasn't attached anymore !  :angel:  (due to many movings in the last weeks surely  ::))..

Tomorrow I'll go and get some new paste and see how it goes... fixing the fan seems to work but it must be safer to put some more paste.

not got the track  :-\

shall have a think about getting it but odds are against as it wouldn't be one I would use again more than lightly :-\

I quite liked it when I tried it last night.

Gary

I really like all the rovals :)

Even Charlotte? Loon.

Especially Charlotte ;)

Charlotte is great in the MX5, but I wouldn't fancy it in anything faster...

While Homestead is OK, I would prefer Sebring @ Night  - nudge, nudge, wink, wink ;)  :angel:

seconded ;D

I'm sure Sebring in the inky black will appear at some stage ... I'd only swap Infineon out from the remaining races though....

This weekends practice and race sessions are booked in - courtesy of the recent changes .... makes things much easier!!

For future races the pre-race practice session may get increased to 90 mins (so a 1805 start time) as we've got a bit of time to play with as it's a 240 min session and at present we're only using 50+25+90.

Just to reiterate though - everything is as normal for this, but the race is going ahead on a timed basis rather than a preset number of laps.

Low 1:19's with fuel any good?

Rubbish ;)

I heard the Mustangs were doing that :angel: ;D

It looks like I'm going to have to miss this one guys. Just too much on at the moment.

Hopefully I'll be back for Spa.

Gary

Sorry you're missing this one Gary :(

Should be a fun one - on the whole it's a pretty solid circuit for mixed class I think, just a few corners where it could get "complicated" :D.  90 mins is going to be a challenge though - I'm looking forward to getting some long runs in on the Saturday praccy sesh.

Dam was looking forward to a battle with Gary again :(

I'm lapping in the 16's

would just like to say hi i have just sighed up to your league :)
not sure if i will be able to join you at homestead as i don't have that track yet waiting for next build to by some tracks and cars together
i will be driving the dp and i really look forward to seeing you all on track soon
this will be my first taste of league racing

Hi Adrian - you don't have to wait for the new build if you're waiting for the new Nationwide Impala, it'll be free to anyone who owns the current Nationwide car. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any more tracks due until Season 3.

We "should" be getting the LMP2 and GT2, trackwise - isn't Suzuka up next?

Yeah, but none of that is until Season 3, which is three months away.

I know - isn't that when the next build is?

This is very weird yesterday I was doing mid / high 16's and now the best I can get it 17.5's!!! My set-up hasn't changed and I'm driving the same lines.

David, have you calibrated recently and left the brake setting on its default 1.8?

Regards
Gary

Just checked all settings nothing has changed, there was an update today but in the release notes there isn't anything that would effect it.

Hey fellas, our house move is complete, my internet is working but I have no way of piping it up to where the PC is so I'm going to have to miss this one I'm afraid :(

I've ordered some of those Homeplug thingies so hopefully I'll be back for the next round.

I will have my race frame up as well by then so basically you lot won't stand a chance! lol

Glad the house move is done - sorry you're missing this one :(

Good luck tonight guys, have fun ;D

Gary

Despite the fact that a "few" people were missing ... I had a great race.

Getting into the server it looked like I'd had a few more laps practice than Jasper and Raimo, and was massively surprised at the gap in qually.

In the race, Jasper was in close attendance until he took an early pit after a nudge from a DP.  Looking at the gap I didn't think new tyres had been taken, and that if I took some fresh rubber consistency would bring me through.  After the stop JG was 9 seconds up the road, and the gap wasn't closing quick enough.  Luckily for me he span getting me within a couple of seconds.

In T1 I was making up a lot of ground, and ultimatley between T1 and T2 was where I finally managed to get alongside, and hold the line through the next couple of corners to make the pass stick.  Jasper was still making me work for it, and it was only with 5 to go when he made a mistake that I was comfortable and semi-cruised to the finish.

Barring a couple of sideways moments which were a bit of a worry - I was really pleased with my consistency, and although the attendance takes the shine off the result, I know I drove pretty well.

Looking forward to everyone coming back for the Spa race - which should be a cracker.

Cheers guys.

Shocking turnout  :'(

David was clearly faster so I didn't want to push too hard because I knew Dave was waiting for me to screw up.  ;D

I started heavy on fuel but was planning on pitting at the half way mark..  That changed when Dave left the pits in front of me...  By that point I was so bored I stayed out longer just so I could race someone..  However, on old tyres there was on one winner and Dave slowly pulled away...

I spent the next 35 mins hoping David would fall asleep. :sleep1:  But he never did.   ::)

Well done to David for the win, impressive pace as usual.  Well done to teamie Adam for the Stang win.  Thanks a bunch guys, we won't hear the end of this at Legends HQ.  ::)

Thanks to those that turned up.  Let's hope the turnout is bigger next race....  

I have to say - had a "normal" attendance occurred it would have been a really interesting race.  Despite rovals not being as good as proper road courses, Daytona and Miami are well suited to it imho.

I don't really grok the "A" course - for some reason I thought there was a version without that tricky turn 1, but in fact all the A version adds is an even trickier version of the corner off the back straight and a slightly fumbly chicane.

Never found a comfortable setup so with so few of us in the race I just wanted to try and stay focused and make sure I didn't drop it anyway and hand Blunder a podium. The race was even more lonely than my 2nd place in the Mustang in the 11am Grand Am Premiere race, though I did at least have the consolation prize of a few good laps to keep Darren behind me between our stops.

In the end I was running out of concentration and cruised round for the last few laps once I felt the rears starting to go away. If I'd known there'd be no Sharks in the Mustangs I might've switched classes to aid our attempt to win the team championship there. Still, never look a gift podium in the mouth!

Great race guys, pushed at the start and opened up a gap on Darren, then i hit cruze control :P Shame there wasn't more people on track would have made it a bit more interesting.

Next up is Spa, not one of my favourite tracks and I really struggle to keep a decent pace going.

Ammended my paint scheme on Trading Paints now ... didn't realise I'd saved it with the wireframe turned on as I'd not run the updater on my desktop. :D

Apologies for nonattendance, my connection has gone fubar again :(

Engineer up Friday though, which leaves me about as optimistic as Leonard Cohen attending a funeral at Beachy Head, but you never know...

Sorry to hear the connection woes continue ... fingers crossed it allowing you to race at Spa.

Shame about the attendance.
Was really enjoying that but in reality it was only ever gonna be hot lapping unless someone screwed up!  ;D
They didn't and after about 50 mins I quit, sorry!

Think I might have caused the Stangs a minor issue at one point, I was trying to hold back and give them room/ not interfere with their race but then they held back for me too..
Ended up an after you, no after you, no... no!!  :(

Hope this picks up and I can make the rest of the season.

Bit tricky through there tbh.  If you're not past by T2 there's not a lot to do but wait for the next straight :(