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#3581103 - 05/27/12 04:37 PM Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500
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SimHQ Contributing Editor Stephanie *Panther* Lessentine provides a driver's view to yesterday's iRacing Indy 500.

http://simhq.com/_motorsports5/motorsports_165a.html
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#3581112 - 05/27/12 04:47 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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excellant article, good write up and good race... I watched it.
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#3581122 - 05/27/12 05:01 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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Awesome article! Good race and way to represent Blackcat and SimHQ! Good job!
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#3581206 - 05/27/12 07:24 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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Great job and way to finish!

At the start of my race the guy in front of me checked up right as the race went green - I checked up as well to avoid slamming into the back of him. The guy behind me went full throttle into the back of me spinning me into the wall causing a huge pile up and a caution from the get go. End of race for me along with 10 other drivers. Oh well, the kicker is for a second I thought about starting in the pits just to avoid all the initial craziness of 33 drivers starting at one time.

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#3581213 - 05/27/12 07:43 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: Wedge]
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Originally Posted By: Wedge
Great job and way to finish!

At the start of my race the guy in front of me checked up right as the race went green - I checked up as well to avoid slamming into the back of him. The guy behind me went full throttle into the back of me spinning me into the wall causing a huge pile up and a caution from the get go. End of race for me along with 10 other drivers. Oh well, the kicker is for a second I thought about starting in the pits just to avoid all the initial craziness of 33 drivers starting at one time.


Man that sucks! I am pretty sure thats reportable and I would report it. At least iRacing doesn't make us start 3 wide like IRL!
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#3581214 - 05/27/12 07:46 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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Nice job on the article!
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#3581356 - 05/28/12 02:11 AM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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Good article. Was almost enough to get me to renew my iRacing membership.

More like this on SimHQ please. smile
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#3582475 - 05/29/12 08:11 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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Great race and writeup Panther, way to stay out of trouble.
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#3583950 - 06/01/12 07:32 AM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: guod]
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Great writeup. Outing myself solidly as a nerd, reading this was more fun than some RL races I watched in the past.

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#3586050 - 06/04/12 02:41 PM Re: Feature: Driver's View: The iRacing Indy 500 [Re: Aiobhill]
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Originally Posted By: Aiobhill
Great writeup. Outing myself solidly as a nerd, reading this was more fun than some RL races I watched in the past.


Got to agree with that one. Went to the Detroit Indy Grand Prix yesterday. What a sad joke.

- 40 laps into the 90 lap race (which saw no leadership changes after start due to some good driving by Dixon and a very restrictive circuit) the race was red flagged for 2 hours (!) because the patch job they had done on the Detroit circuit started coming apart causing cars to crash

- They repaired the various pot holes and gouges with epoxy and a leaf blower!!! (I kid you not, watch here from 3 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dYsLVKZoJ4 )

- They restarted the race, but only for a final 15 laps, no doubt worried their patch job would not hold up

I stuck around, because I was in a free beer tent, but 90% of patrons had given up and gone home by that time and I don't blame them.

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