The inaugural iRacing.com Road Pro series has come to a close (for me at least, no more racing this week) and here are some final reflections on how my season went. I posted some initial views in a separate post here so here are some final thoughts on what was a very memorable series.
It was quite a hard, long endeavour and it required some commitment to continue to join races where I knew I was racing for the back of the grid. I can scarcely remember more than a handful of overtaking moves (by myself) in the whole season! Most of the time I was racing for good clean finishes, and tried to reap as many points as I could.
Another goal for me was to complete the full season, and after missing quite a few races in the first half I really had to stay commited and attend as many races in the second half. In the end I raced in 20 of the 25 racing weeks (where the top 19 weeks count) therefore I had one dropped week (dropping a nightmare result at Infineon where I scored just 8 points).
So my final series standings were 58th place with 1671 points.
I catalogued my series results below and you can see that as a consequence of finishing in the bottom half each race my iRating generally declined (375 iR units over the season). Now that the Pro series is over and done with I can make arrangements to build it back to its previous value, and try to once again qualify for the next Pro series!
iRacing.com Road Pro Series
Week
|
Circuit
|
Result
|
Points
|
iR Change
|
1
|
Daytona Road | DNS | - | - |
2
|
VIR Full | 9/16 | 119 | +6 |
3
|
Sebring International | DNS | - | - |
4
|
Laguna Seca | 10/19 | 127 | +10 |
5
|
Watkins Glen Boot | 14/19 | 70 | -32 |
6
|
Barber Full | 16/24 | 86 | -18 |
7
|
Road America Full | 14/19 | 70 | -28 |
8
|
Road Atlanta Full | 11/17 | 92 | -13 |
9
|
Lime Rock Park Full | DNS | - | - |
10
|
Infineon | 30/31 | 8 | -79 |
11
|
Silverstone GP | 27/31 | 34 | -54 |
12
|
Homestead Road B | 13/18 | 74 | -23 |
13
|
Laguna Seca | 15/31 | 142 | +28 |
14
|
Atlanta Road | 20/21 | 13 | -66 |
11/20 | 122 | +14 | ||
15
|
Summit Point Full | 14/19 | 71 | -25 |
16
|
Daytona Road | DNS | - | - |
17
|
Lowes Road Course | 11/15 | 77 | -16 |
18
|
Homestead Road A | 13/22 | 113 | +7 |
19
|
Sebring International | 19/23 | 50 | -35 |
20
|
Watkins Glen Boot | 19/25 | 67 | -26 |
21
|
Road Atlanta Full | 13/22 | 114 | +9 |
22
|
VIR Full | DNS | - | - |
23
|
Silverstone GP | 21/27 | 64 | -24 |
24
|
Infineon Long | 19/25 | 69 | -20 |
25
|
Road America | 11/17 | 110 | +10 |
(red = dropped)