You’ve spent numerous hours preparing for you race. You’ve juggled time with your family, kids, friends, school and work. You’ve worked on your setups and strategies, tweaking them, testing and tweaking them again. You’ve spent extra time to learn the newest sim, add-on or track. Lap after lap you’ve pushed yourself to do better than the last race. After all, your hard work is paying off and it’s showing in your results. You can occasionally challenge near the front of the races and the points. Sure you’re no alien, but an improved mid packer that has the odd top 5 or the even more elusive win, both more from luck than skill. Your racing style is friendly. You enjoy close racing. You can hold your own and make few mistakes. You’re the consummate gentleman racer.
You head off to the race. It’s 2/3 of the way through the season. A couple more good results could net you [... more]
WOW! My 1st online race ever in the 12+ years of sim racing. I was pretty nervous as I always knew how my previous competition would react (AI). These guys were real! We gathered at Valencia National, 26 of us. I did pretty well in qualy, placing 9th. Although, I beat my time in warm-up with race setup and fuel.
The race went well. I got a good start and was up to 5th after the precarious 1st turn. Everyone in front of me behaved well, thanks. I cruised in 5th for 10-12 laps staying 3.5s behind 4th. 6th was about the same distance behind me. It was good to stay in the open for awhile until my nerves settled. A few cars went off in front of me when we hit lapped traffic. I didn't noticed that I was in 4th until a few laps later. 4th must of tangled with lappers. I was now 3.5s behind 3rd and gaining about .5-.6s a lap depending on traffic. But 5th was gaining on me fas [... more]
