goon, you need to get back into this. Not too bad when you can reconnect if there is a disco!

Car #9 is now in 9th position after a disco in the LC > Ahmad handoff. Then Ahmad had a disco coming back in. Scoring added 4 laps - one for each disco and esc in the pits. We think it is because of high pings all the Kiwis and Aussies are getting in the race. So Ahmad will be bringing it home to the finish line and see how many of the 3 lost positions he can gain back.

Position 7. Doubtful we'll get 6th place back because the Porsche 917 covering it is up by 3 laps. Cross your fingers.

Updates please!




Did we hold??????

Great job so far to all!

Qualified 6th, finished 7th, well done to LC, Chip, Ahmad, great drives and a special mention for Doug for staying up mostly all night.

Fini. 7 out of 22 starters. And there were some big sim racing names driving in the event.

IIRC correctly in 24 hours car #9 went from 5th > 21st > 10th > 19th > 8th > 13th > 9th > 6th and finally, 7th place. What a roller coaster that was.

Big thanks to Ahmad, Ben, Dan Blake, Dan Bailey and Joe Keefe who did a wonderful job on the drivers schedule.

I have tons of images and the vcr file (in 3 parts). The replay file is 288 MB. I'll do a video sometime in the next few days. But for now, I'm going to bed.

Here's my race as much as I remember it, it's a bit of a blur now with the headache it gave me

First I praise & thank God that we made it!

My first run, I joined almost 7 hours in and took over from Chipwich while we were in ~13th position, rFactor froze on the swapover so we had a ~2 lap penalty and I rejoined in 21st. I had a brand new car so I tried to capitalise on it as much as possible while not making any mistakes. I met my target laptime of around ~3:36 and managed to bring us back up to ~10th spot. Two consistent stints without a mistake so I was pretty happy about, and surprised.

The second run I had was a small one only about 30 minutes before handing it over to Chipwich.

On my third run I took over from LazyC, and again rF froze on the swapover, something with my overseas latency. We were in a good position but again we dropped down to about ~14th because of the penalty. It was now night racing and I found myself lapping faster than my first double stint by about a second or 2. We decided that I should do a triple stint instead of 2 doubles so that I didn't have to receive the car again. So I drove a triple stint in the dark which was very fun and quite taxing. It took me about one and a half stints to go from 13th to 12th because I was 2 laps down. After I got 12th I managed to pass a few more and hand it over to Ben in I believe 8th position.

I wasn't expecting to run anymore but Ben needed to hand over and Chipwich's stint wasn't scheduled to start yet, so I had to takeover from Ben for my final double stint. He had got us up into 6th position but again rF froze and then I got disconnected once I had rejoined. So we got a double penalty and we were back down in 9th. I drove even quicker as I had spent so much time on the track already and managed to get us back into 7th position. Position 6 was 3 laps ahead of us and I managed to claw that back to 1 lap. With 3 laps to go I made my first major error at the kink at the mulsanne straight and had to pit for repairs, but it was no problem as we had built enough of a buffer over 8th position and we were never going to catch 6th place with only 2 laps to go. Although P6 was now 2 laps ahead of us, I managed to pass him on the final corner of the final lap to bring it back down to 1 lap.

So we started 6th, were in 21st position at one stage and then finished 7th. A great drive by everyone. A great start by Dan and great runs from LazyC and Chipwich, thanks Joe for the schedule it was pretty accurate, and thanks to Doug for staying online through the entire race and keeping the drivers informed on laptimes and other drivers. Also a big thanks to LazyC for the great setup which without, consistent and fast laptimes would not have been possible.

Incredible racing you guys!! Double WOOT for the SimHQ enduro team!

Great drive all!


I thought I remembered reading at L2R that hot swaps, but only IN the pitlane, were allowed--but then later on you guys said you were using the pit menu swap option. I wonder if the disconnects would have happened if the hot swap option was used.

In any case, CONGRATULATIONS! Well done.

I can't wait for the vid, Doug.

Congrats guys, what an eventful race for all of you. We were keeping track of your car over from the ADC garage also as we saw you drop and then climb back up the rankings all race long. I hope it was not our Matra that was causing you the issues mentioned earlier. We had an eventful race over at Team ADC also, with a fiery crash early, rFactor crashing on my stint but except for Team Kiwi in the Ferrari 312P Jon Clinton's work on our setup gave us a great ride against rest of the P3000 class. We ended up P9 overall and P2 in the P3000 class after running as high as 7th overall and as low as 19th early on after the fireball incident.

If you look at who finished ahead of you, 2 fellow Ferrari 512's (one of which won), 3 Porsche 917 monsters and those Kiwis who were on fire in the P3000 Ferrari 312 (5th overall, wow) and throw in the issues you encountered I would say that a top 3 would have been a real possibilty without the penalties at the end of the day, Grats again Team SimHQ!

David K, Team ADC
Team ADC 24 L2R thread: http://forums.speedgeezers.net/index.php?showtopic=30422&st=60

PS: Doug I wish you could have gotten the SimHQ GT40 on track as the other GT40 was really in the mix for a while in class and I am also looking forward to the race video.

Good show old chaps, i know how hard it is even in a 12 hour event so 24 must be hell, i feel the urge for another enduro myself now.