Ouch! We'll miss you Pumbaa

Make sure you get some rest my friend. I fractured my taibone in a cycling accident a few years ago. It was pretty darn painful. Stupidy i continued training and didn't let it heal properly so occassionally it still gives me grief from time to time. Look after your arse, it's pretty important - especially for a sim racer!

Great race today. Even if I did screw it all up by getting a drive through for speeding. Up till then I was racing hard with Saghen for 4th place and it was a blast! I was kind of hoping we would get a yellow when I went a lap down but it was not to be lol. All in all a great fun race and it was good to see some new blood on the servers. It means I'm not the new boy any more!Welcome guys and good luck in your future races!

well, even when i was marginally slower than the rest of the pack i managed to finish the race completely. i was involved in a pair of incidents but somehow i got the car under control and didn't ran off the track. sadly in a pitstop around the lap 70 i got and stop and go and a drivethru who put me really way back of the lastest places. still i accomplished the first part, ending the race in one piece. i guess i'll just have to build more speed.
also hope you guys didn't got any trouble overlapping me, i tried to hold my line in the best way possible when i saw the blue flags.

Let's see. "R" is for race, right? No...?!

Congrats on the win Chad and good job of staying out of trouble.

Somehow I knew Darren and henny would be upfront in this race.
They always seem to do well in our VHR stock car events!

As Stewart said, welcome to GEEE, jdbecks, and Domestos. Welcome back ferli.

Thanks to everyone for participating, and we'll do Homestead next time.

Last lap of the race...

Chad's rFactor minimizes (still can't figure how that happened).
Darren thinks it's a disco, then connects to the wall.
Meanwhile I'm thinking, "Oh God! The server crashed on the last lap! Noooo...."

lol - the life of a server admin

I'm glad it was just minimized and not totally crashed. I've had bad luck of that sort years ago when I ran leagues in the Papyrus sims.

I lost a league title because of it actually - came up 7 points short at the end of a season. One race, I was leading and my ISP went down for maintenance (I changed providers the next week), and another race I was top 5 and the game locked up.

If either one of those had gone differently, it would've made the difference.

It all started well enough with myself, Lugnut and Rhino trading the lead for the first 20 laps or so in tight formation with I think Henny, Darren and Alex ready to pounce. Admittedly I was pushing the issue more than I should have at that point in the race. Going down the back straight it was my intention to draft push Lugnut inside of Rhino as we had done so many times before. Upon review I "think" Lugnut looked like he wanted to stay behind Rhino into 3 so he backed out a fraction of a second earlier than I was expecting and myself a fraction too late to realize what was happening. Sure as snot I bumped Lugnut right into Rhino making him spin badly and for reasons unknown I grabbed 2 gears in a fit of panic blowing myself up in a ball of flames. Game over.

My apologies to both of you.

No worries Birdski. After starting on pole, I really wanted to lead yet knew that since we were doing 100 laps, I really should back off and save my car for the end. This latter strategy really seemed like a good idea when Birdski, Lug, and Alex were really racing hard for the first 2 sequences. The only reasons I was passing anyone that early were due to massive runs I was getting. Going into the turn of the incident, I saw both of you had a big run on me, so I was planning on going 3/4 lanes high into the turn and let you both by. After the wreck, I still had a decent car and could have competed, but 2 more wrecks tangling with the back markers really messed my car up. I could only do about 188 tops down the straights. All in all, a good race that I learned what I need to do better to win next time!

Doug, any chance we can do custom skins for the next race?

whens the nest stock car race? I really enjoy these cars!

i have a question: do you always use the sprint cars for the races, or do you mix up? it should be hilarious to do a truck race.

We did a truck race at Bristol last year. Wasn't that well attended. We would do more (some) other than Sprint Cup if there were drivers.