Archive for December, 2008

Week 8 – A Break From iRacing

Sunday, December 28th, 2008
My Helmet Design VIR

Following last weeks bad experiences I gave iRacing a bit of a break this week. Early in the week I did some practicing at Virginia North and completed two races, one good and one bad (lap one crash and a self spin later on). Even the good race didn’t really make up for the last five or so poor races, so I didn’t make the effort to put in any more racing this week.

Some of this apathy is in part related to the fact that I am not really competing in a division this season – I’m far enough down the order to not be challenging for the championship and I don’t really know any of the names that I am actually competing with, so there is no real incentive to race, and no competitive edge to score highly.

I’m hoping next weeks racing at Laguna Seca will bring some renewed enthusiasm as I really like that track, plus I need to get that vital fourth race in the truck series (to qualify for the B licence for 2009) so I’m sure I’ll be back racing next week. Until then, here’s a quick clip of an unfortunate start to a race at VIR North…

My Skip Barber RT2000

Week 7 – A Week To Forget…

Sunday, December 28th, 2008
My Helmet Design Summit Point Raceway

My poor season continues with some dreadful racing at Summit Point Jefferson. It seemed to be mission impossible to get through these races without collecting incidents. Just when I thought I would get through a race incident free, I’d just a nudge to my gearbox and a 4x. I kept going back though, trying to run a good race, but the end of it was a big chunk off my iRating and SR stats for the week.

5 races, 24 incidents and an average of 69 points.

My Skip Barber RT2000

Week 6 – A New Bogey Track……..

Monday, December 15th, 2008
My Helmet Design VIR

Racing the Skip Barber in season 4 has seen me having to learn lots of new tracks, and as such this takes a fair amount of time. This season I am trying to race as much as I can so I am entering races when I am comfortable and safe, but not necessarily fast. So this trend continued and when we arrived at VIR South I found my pace several tiers behind my current iRating.

I just couldn’t get to grips with the track really. I had a fair and consistent pace but was several tenths back from my usual rivals. I guess some tracks work for you, and some simply don’t!

I had two races (both were great fun) and fell short of my 100-point-a-week goal. Hopefully it’ll be a drop week at the end of the season.

I also dived into a late model race on Saturday with a lightly developed setup. It was pretty tight and painful to drive towards the end. I think I scored around 50 points or so… not really invested in that series to be honest, the races aren’t as much fun as the trucks or road cars, but I’ll still try to get eight weeks worth of results in.

Onto the next week!

My Skip Barber RT2000