Remember, if you want yet more 'Tona racing there is still time to enter. http://www.ffrl.org/

My initial plan was to just ride with the lead group and make laps; in a way I guess that's what happened.

As Stewart mentioned, once the lead pack split in two the race was essentially over. I saw them in my mirror and knew we could pull away, so at that point I started pushing Birdski a little harder to make time, and we just drove away.

I didn't have great pit stops today, Birdski definitely had us covered there. On my first stop I got stuck behind Chunx and had to wait for him to move. On my final stop I pulled too far forward and had to hit reverse to get the crew to do any work.

On the final stint I decided to go ahead and see if I could get through - I knew getting by Chunx was going to be rough after watching him chop some people off in practice

But once I got by I figured it wouldn't be long before the two of them passed me back - unfortunately the two of them tangled coming off turn four. Chunx got turned up nose-first into the wall and Birdski took enough damage that he was unable to keep up, and I just drove off to the finish.

Amazed that we did it with no yellows - though that turned it into something of an endurance race for sure.

Well,I had the following tasks for this race:
- Survive
- don't crash others
I think I pulled it off!
It was great, really enjoyed it. I made some wall contacts which made me slow, but I had enough work to let the faster guys pass me without issues, so I wasn't bored.
Thanks for the race and congrats to everyone!

Wow, that's a first! A 125 lap race that went all green.

Congratulations to Chad "LugnutUSA" Dunbar for a smooth drive and a big win.

Congrats to DaBirdski for 2nd place and Chunx for knocking-the-rust-off and pulling down a 3rd.

Congrats to Darren for pole and to Stewart for fastest race lap.

Congrats to Kurt and Staniol for the finish in their first VHR online race, and never causing a yellow flag.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Next race will be Talledega around the date of the actual NASCAR race (May 6th).



Autosim Analyzer

http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/r...yzer/index.html

Qualifying and Race Replays, Setup, XML Results

http://simhq.net/downloads/motorsports/rfactor/SimHQ_2012_Daytona_250/SimHQ_2012_VHR_Daytona.zip

For those of you interested in joining the FFRL Daytona 500 that I mentioned above, just a reminder that entries close on Thursday 23rd feb at 10pm EST. The gatorade duels will take place on the same day and there is an aditional $50 dollar prize for each duel winner on top of the $250 dollar prize for the main event winner. All details on how to sign up are on the link in my last post on this thread. It would be great to see some of the guys who ran on sunday entered , so I hope I see some of you on track.

What racing were they doing tonight, Stewart?

Not sure Kurt. I think it was one of their league nights.

Yeah, tonight was the season opener for their VHR league. I signed up for it; dunno if I'll be able to run the 500 but I figured a weekly fixed setup league might be fun.

Tonight went well. This was the margin at the finish:




That's what 0.031 seconds looks like

Nice win there Chad.

Nope. The AI still likes to crash against the pit wall. Maybe in the revised 2012 version. ....naaah, probably not.