It seems that Williams and BMW are under investigation because their fuel during the Brazilian grand prix was too cold
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63557
and if they get DQ'ed it will give Hamilton the title
After over 70 people taking a shot at the RACER Simdianapolis time trails last weekend for one of the 33 grid spots for the first Simdianapolis 500. I was one of the lucky ones to get in and made it all the way up to 18th on the grid. I'm a lot more confident on my race setup and in pre race testing i have been in the mix every time i got on track. At 2pm EST the race will start and 33 cars will pile into the first turn at the Indianapolis speedway and for 500 miles it will be a mad dash to the finish.
The offical program is here http://rapidshare.com/files/32319920/Simdy500Program.doc.html . It incudes the history of the race, interviews, a run down of the order and more.
You will be able to watch the race at mms://75.126.143.82/LiveRacing
I got off to a really good start from 6th passing three people off the start! Then with Jean making a mistake I was 2nd. Then from lap 8 (when Jean's car dissapeared, and my brother walked in for moral support!) I was battling with Michael all the way to the end of the race! First time I got passed him was when we pitted together, but then he got me just after, when i forgot to shift up a gear! D'oh ! We swapped back and forth for the next 10 laps or so before he got a few seconds infront. Then with two laps to go he made a mistake and went off, and rejoined just behind me. I was so excited it was difficult to keep my hands on the wheel for the last lap, but I held it together and won the race!!! WOOHOO!!!
Thanks for a really great race Michael, great dicing! Thank you Eric and the others for a great event and great racing, couldn't of asked for a better race .
Sam
theres only 2 thing you need to know about that race
1) would of come 2nd with a shot at 1st but with 10 to go Laurent Vaisman got way to jumpy and took me out
2)it was ruined from the start when the 1.150 update didnt work
a great race ruined
That was a finny and stupid race at the same time.
i qualied 5th and at the start made it up to 2nd by lap 50 (i think) and i desided to pit cos that would of given me the fuel to go to the end
when i came out no one was in the correct position at the back so i got a stop and go and a drive though and i was 2 laps down. i contacted eric and he understood and took my penaltys away but i was still 2 laps down. I got 1 back by my self and got the other back by a lucky dog.
i had to come up through the field and i got into 2nd and could not get around chris (i think). Then on the last restart chris bumped me high and took 2nd so then i was about a second behind chris with 3 laps to go.
i couldnt catch him up so i held on to 3rd and came home
so that was 2 laps down to 3rd and one lead lap
Sam
the night started well qualiing 5th with a 54:0 and a pack of 15 drivers.
the start of the race went very well for me making up a position in to 4th on the out side of David Banta who got a terrible start and lost about 8 positions of the line. But soon enough he passed me setting me back down to 5th. David Banta and Tim Mcarthur (admin) were battling hard for 2nd about 4 seconds infront of me when they got together in turn 1 on lap 18, and my PC srewed up and told me Banta was on the grass when he actualy was right on the racing line, cos of this i ran right into him taking off my front bumper. It was nearly half way in the 50 lap race to i stuck with it for a will, the lap Tim got by me i had enough of the understeer so i headed in on Lap 22. When i came out i was in 6th but i kept on picking them of when they came in the pits. i was 3rd when the pits circled arou [... more]
The Bullrun 1000 just finished, and KR3W driver Sam Michaels and brother Scott Michaels won by a margin of 1m16s!
Scott Michaels:
I'd love to give a blow by blow account of the race, but it really was a rather uneventful race for us! The build up was far from dull though, we went from having no steering wheel, followed by no internet with about a week to go (forcing me to make my own setup for the first time ever!), to finding we where both well up on the pace and expecting a good top ten result. Neither of us genuinely thought we would experience even a fraction of the success we had!
The race was near faultless. After me qualifying us 3rd on the grid, I took second in T1, then the lead in traffic on lap 7. From then on we where never overtaken (discounting breifly loosing the lead on the first stop). Sam was faultless, I was close to that (cut me some slack thoug [... more]
