iRacing Season 3 Riley - Sebring (GP) - May 25

[ross.mcw]

I was using a set-up I pulled off the iRacing forum - happy to send it over to you if you want to compare it.

[Paul Richards]

Be really interesting to know how much of the straight line speed differences were down to fuel load, rake angle, gear ratios and so on. Ross was significantly quicker down the final back straight than me (pulling away even with me in the tow) despite me having minimum wing; I doubt it was just fuel load as it was noticable at higher speeds where weight doesn't usually have much effect.

It wasn't so much top speed just the initial run up through the gears. I was also on min wing as well. Obviously the car in front normally gets to the throttle first out of a corner but it wasn't just that. On a couple of occasions Brendan ran a little wide and I was on the throttle much closer t him than normal. He still managed to pull 3 car lenghts as we built speed and the only thing I put it down to was weight but as you say there may be other factors.

[Ken Murray]

A quick apologies to Ken - watching the replay its hard to spot the point of contact,  I think we both come towards each other at one stage or another but in any case, I could definitely have given you more room so apologies there, really didn't want it to end that way.

No worries James, you probably did me a favour putting me out of my misery. Another 24 laps in my already bent car was always going to be a struggle!!

[Blunder]

Hi boys!

Had a great race, really enjoyed it!
Had not driven at all since last week and this does seem to be a car you need to spend time in!
Started from scratch at 7.30 and only really tried to improve my time with full fuel!
Qualifying next to last was not fun but I had nothing left to give!  
Note to self: Need to practice before next weeks race!

Race was so intense! the level of concentration required really adds to the experience for me!
Managed to replicate my quali time in the race so can't be too dissappointed.

Had a great fight with spanner for a few laps until he lost it
Dissappointed as I was really enjoying that!

Later on pops and picnic were there abouts 13-15 secs down but catching, knew I would be ok if I just kept putting in solid laps!
Unfortunately Gary's half spin and a minor bump! put the pressure on! Car was slightly damaged so had to be really careful!
Pops went into the last corner a fraction of a second behind me! I held my nerve, took it steady ! and went over the line about 25yards in front of him! Excellent fun!  

Thanks all, really enjoyed that! Look forward to next time!

M.

[Reign Man]

Enjoyed the race but I'm not sure what happened to my overall pace in the race itself.

I lost a couple of places at the start, which put me just behind teamate Gary...I was able to keep pace with him for a few laps but a gradually fell back. I somhow just lost all feeling for the car and wasn't able to take my usual lines an brake where I normally do.

To compound the problem I totally forgot about pitting so ran out of fuel halfway around the lap so had to stutter back into the pits.  This put me bout 5-6 seconds behind Simon. I cut the gap to three seconds and again totally lost pace.  Got a decent run in the last few laps to close the gap to less than a second at the finish.

Dissapointed at my race pace which was a second off what I was doing in practice, but pleased that I at least had a clean race.

Oh well, will hopefully do better on the next one.

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Finished ahead of all but one DP in this one with an SR8 taking the outright victory. If it was going to happen anywhere, it would be Laguna.