Road One 4 Class Results and Stories Thread!

**davidan** · 06-19-2008, 07:45 PM

Congratulations to our Winners at Road One in the 4 Class Race!
Some first time CMS Wins!!! :

John Basara overall and P1 Class
Stephen King LM-P2 Class!
Don Fryman - GT1 Class
James Goldston - GT2 Class
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here is the server replay
http://780bradford.com/champion/replays/road14class.Vcr

and here are the race results
http://780bradford.com/champion/poin...908/index.html

**Greg Veres** · 06-19-2008, 10:06 PM

Well that absolutely sucked.

I was dicing it up with John B for the first few laps. He finally got around me and then we came up on a spun porsche in the walled in section. I tried to stop but because I was following John my front end washed away and I smacked into the porsche. I don't know who it was, but I am sorry for that. It did quite a bit of damage to my car so I am sure it did a bunch to yours.

I pitted and the repairs took 80+ seconds. When I came out I had been lapped by the faster LMP2 cars. After a bit Gunny was behind me and the spotter was telling me I had blue flags at each corner, but I would out run the flags down the straights. Finally I got caught up in traffic on the front straight and had to let Gunny and Bob D by. Then on the next lap S Bailey had caught up to me - again traffic and I had to let him by on the small straight just before the turns leading to the front straight. I was right behind him looking for a draft down the front straight when both of us caught a GT1 car at the apex of the last right hander. I think the GT1 car swerved not knowing which way to go to get out of the way (hold your line), this caused S Bailey to swerve and lose the back end. He came shooting back towards me and I swerved to miss him and hit the brick wall guarding pit in. Bam game over. the engine she was dead. Not the way I wanted the race to go, thats for sure.

see you next week.

Greg

JSmathers · 06-19-2008, 10:21 PM

I was just running behind Barasa and Drew not tryin to push the car as I had a nice gap on the 4th place car, going up the hill the ol powerplant let go. Temps were fine and was running 3 boost? I had even lowered the RPM limit to preserve against this as putting a wheel up on the curb on exit sometimes will cause wheel spin and a spike in RPM. Oh well onto the next venue. I would like to apologize to Bob Dunlap on start I came across his nose going into one, hard to judge in rearview, didnt think it was so close. Glad all was ok there and cyall next week.

**Wes Tribble** · 06-19-2008, 10:37 PM

Running along in second place in p2, just completed my last pitstop and got disco'd.

SUCKS!

**gunny** · 06-19-2008, 10:41 PM

Well didn't have the fastest car but it was fun while it lasted. Got so into racing that I didn't realize I ran out of fuel till I ran out of fuel! Oh friggin well, this one will be hard to get back (point wise) Man there should be a kicking the dog Smilie thingy!

**HenryHudson** · 06-19-2008, 11:06 PM

Well, the #74 PetroMALT Porsche was WAY off the pace with minimal track time and not really having a good feel for the track. Managed to keep it clean for the 1st 4 laps and get by a couple of GT2s when I looped it getting on the curbs in the chicane. Front bumper is lying on the track in front of me and 2 LMPs flash by, I get ready to get it turned around and here come 2 more LMPs. This 1st on squeases by, but Greg is on the outside line and it's a nose to nose meeting that pretty much provided the necessary damage to render the #74 PetroMALT Porsche inoperable. Sorry for whacking your race Greg.

**Rick Adams** · 06-19-2008, 11:20 PM

Didn't look too promising for me at the start. I couldn't get a clean Qualification lap in, so I started 36th. I hung back on the first lap to let the field sort itself out. On the second lap I picked up the pace and got down to business. I had worked my way up to 14th before pitting. Exited pits in 18th and in heavy GT1/GT2 traffic. Caught the !@#% rumble strip in the esses coming off the down hill straight, spun me around and backed me into the wall effectively ending my night.

I would like to apologize to Charlie Bonsall, I thought I was clear and came over bumping you off the track and into the grass. I was relieved to see that I didn't cause you damage.

**davidan** · 06-19-2008, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by davidan

Congratulations to our Winners at Road One in the 4 Class Race!
Some first time CMS Wins!!! :

John Basara overall and P1 Class
Stephen King LM-P2 Class!
Don Fryman - GT1 Class
James Goldston - GT2 Class
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here is the server replay
http://780bradford.com/champion/replays/road14class.Vcr

and here are the race results
http://780bradford.com/champion/poin...908/index.html

Results and Replay are up in the first post of this thread!!! Congrats to our Winners Tonight!!!

**jham** · 06-19-2008, 11:37 PM

Part way into the RoadOne International 90 Minute Enduro, the driver of the #12 Pennzoil BMW came walking down pit lane and up to his crew chief. He said, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have any luck at all.” Then retired to his trailer and a tall cocktail.

Bummer. Thought I had an excellent shot at a podium. Had a good car and a plan. Run clean, one stop, maybe. Good start and, once again, was following the old professor - David Anderson. Cool, I’ll just roll along behind him. After a few laps the plan needed a minor adjustment after a tail waggle leading to terminal oversteer spun me off. OK. Lost a position so now I’ll follow Jonathan Backof for awhile. Just be smooth.

On lap eight coming down the hill into the esses saw a yellow. Feathered off the gas, saw the car was not in my line, hit the pedal to get a run on the last corner and got tagged from behind. The #12 BMW spun off track and smacked the wall head on. Not good. But the pits were close.

Had the crew fix part of the damage. Went back out and the car wandered all over the track. Came back in. Now it would go mostly straight, although a little squirrelly in a couple corners. Tried to soldier on, but had to fight the car too much and was becoming a hazard. Called it quits. Wait till next week.

An observation. Trying to pass on the outside at corner exit is not a good bet. If I drive my line through the corner correctly my speed will carry me to the outside edge of the track, closing it off. If I try to pinch the car at the exit it may go unstable. If you pass to the inside at corner exit, no problems.

**DrewMcLean** · 06-19-2008, 11:44 PM

Heads are going to roll after this race

Why on earth would my race engineer start me on Quailfying tires??!! "But but your faster on them" he said grovelling at my feet with a bloody nose!!

I dont know how that happened but I sure had a good launch and a quick car at the start lol. Of course John caught and passed me like I was standing still. " Geeze he must be using boost 5 or something, Ill just wait and see if he blows up." Hmmm why are my tires getting greasy all of a sudden? Wow they are almost in the red!! Thats weird I dont ususally have tire wear problems. Well I got 5 laps left till I pit but if I go any farther I will throw it off for sure. Roll into pit lane and see Q tires waiting to go on!!! A well aimed throw with my water bottle and a few bleepable words to the pit boss (sorry to those of you who where tuned in to the pit chatter) and meds where quickly installed. Running boost of 1 and double stinting my tires still didnt help me keep in front of Bob lol. The splash and go at the end to make up for pitting early cost me. Well 2 races this week and 2 bone head mistakes

I better get more organized