iRacing Season 3 Mazda - Zandvoort (GP) - Jun 15

[Mike Wrightson]

It was epically close.  Ken and I in 6th and 7th were lapping faster than the leader after 8 laps.

[picnic]

Stupid game has me a lap down but I never got lapped and completed all the laps, albeit the last one very slowly!

Shame Legzy you weren't just a little quicker as it also meant a very lonely race for me. I could just about keep up with the cars in front when I did a perfect (for me) lap but there weren't many of those

[popabawa]

Great job at the start guys, one of the best ever

I had no answer to the pace up front but I got a new PB in qually and got into the 1:35's in the race so I'm pretty happy there.

AND, more importantly, that was (as Adam said) an absolutely epic race. 1s between us the whole race and Ade in the mix in the middle of the race.

Hugely enjoyable to race closely with drivers you can trust. Absolutely incredible and fun that you can't get anywhere else

Pity about the pile-up. Mr Richards is on only 2 bottles of Cinzano a day for the next week as punishment

[Ken Murray]

Forgot to mention how close qually was too. I was running P4 right until near the end and I was about to park up and just rest for a few mins before the race. Next thing I know I'm P7 and there is only just 2 or 3 mins on the clock!! Jumped back in and did a quick out lap and tried to nail one final last gasp effort. It didn't look to be going to well with the delta showing red all the way round, so I did a banzai final corner and just managed a slight improvement, but enough to jump 2 places back up to 5th. Great stuff!!

[Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer]

Stupid game has me a lap down but I never got lapped and completed all the laps, albeit the last one very slowly!

There's a time limit (sufficient to complete a lap) after the chequered is thrown; if you don't cross the line before the countdown expires it doesn't score the lap. So if you crawl round the last lap it may not score it.

[Ken Murray]

Forgot to mention how close qually was too. I was running P4 right until near the end and I was about to park up and just rest for a few mins before the race. Next thing I know I'm P7 and there is only just 2 or 3 mins on the clock!! Jumped back in and did a quick out lap and tried to nail one final last gasp effort. It didn't look to be going to well with the delta showing red all the way round, so I did a banzai final corner and just managed a slight improvement, but enough to jump 2 places back up to 5th. Great stuff!!

Just looking at the result and noticed top 12 were covered by 1 sec in qually. Must be the closest grid we've had?

[Mike Wrightson]

It must have been.  I have found I was under-performing here, I tested later and my optimal Q time was 1:34.2 and optimal race time 1:34.6    I just could not put the complete lap together at all   I was still stuck at 1:34.5 and 1:34.9.

Ah well, off to VIR

[Legzy]

Stupid game has me a lap down but I never got lapped and completed all the laps, albeit the last one very slowly!

There's a time limit (sufficient to complete a lap) after the chequered is thrown; if you don't cross the line before the countdown expires it doesn't score the lap. So if you crawl round the last lap it may not score it.

how cruel of you dave, to highlight pete's speed round the track

[picnic]

how cruel of you dave, to highlight pete's speed round the track

May have been slow but I was testing to see what happened if I went too slowly

  Slowcoach Pete





although not the slowest slowcoach   Well not until all the other slowcoaches wimp out and leave the iR fold  

[popabawa]

This slowcoach will be around in iR for a while

[Adam Parle]

Ditto - well .... it has been an investment after all!  Makes sense to get a lot of use out of it!

[Burtoner]

blimey whats with all those discos?

[JohnBayes]

Great race guys but a shame about the big pile up.

I had not tested the car with any fuel in the car at all only Qual runs, so went slow for the first couple of laps, I noticed that everyone was staying with me but  had already decided if anyone got a run on me not to defend to much so let Paul R and Paul H through. Once Paul R had spun off I followed Paul H for the rest of the race and then with about 10 to go started to apply pressure to close the gap which worked and Paul had a half spin, got the lead with about 2 to go, and just took it easy to the end.

Grats to the podium.

[ross.mcw]

Finally managed to do a 1.34.8 in a practice session but man I struggle with this place.

[Ken Murray]

blimey whats with all those discos?

Read the race reports Rob. Big pileup at the second hairpin. iRacing always shows a disco even if you quit volunterily.