Round 6: Daytona International Speedway - Road Course (Jan 18)

[jeromef1]

 

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Race Length: 50 Minutes
Start Type: Standing Start
Fuel Amount: 22%
Weather: Dynamic Weather
Time of Day: Morning

Pre-Race Interview
1 - What are your thoughts on roval track? What is your favorite roval circuit?
2 - Are you doing the 24h of Daytone next weekend? If yes, what car are you going to race?
3 - Are you racing in the IMSA series on iRacing? Are you racing in other series?

 

[jeromef1]

Pre-Race interview is up!

 

[Gunner]

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Pre-Race Interview[/font]
[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 - What are your thoughts on roval track? What is your favorite roval circuit?[/font]
I find roval tracks difficult due to the challenge of finding a good setup for them.  Do you go more downforce and try and thrash the infield section, or low and breeze along the oval? At least this is a popular one so there are setups out there to use as a baseline. I can't say I have a favorite, although this one is simple enough at least haha. 

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2 - Are you doing the 24h of Daytone next weekend? If yes, what car are you going to race?[/font]

Yes! I have never done an endurance race before, so should be exciting. I am on the Mercedes GT3 team, so have been learning to wrestle it around the track. (anyone interested in joining us? We could use another team member or 2)

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]3 - Are you racing in the IMSA series on iRacing? Are you racing in other series?[/font]

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Right now I'm not doing any official series, I just lack the time to practice for them. I may pick the odd race up in the pro mazda if it's a track I like. [/font]

 

[TRG]

1 - What are your thoughts on roval track? What is your favorite roval circuit?​

I don't mind rovals, they are challenging in different ways than normal road courses. Daytona is good enough for me. I had fun at Miami.​

2 - Are you doing the 24h of Daytone next weekend? If yes, what car are you going to race?
I am running the 24h, representing Team PRL GT3 in the Mercedes.
3 - Are you racing in the IMSA series on iRacing? Are you racing in other series?
No IMSA for me, I don't really have time for it all. When I first started iRacing I would jump all over the place, running as many different cars/tracks as I could. But the results were terrible. Once I started to focus on one series, I had a lot more fun and raced much cleaner with better results.

 

[paulwildridge]

Boys sorry to say I wont be bringing up the rear this week or next. For this week with the 24hr coming up I have to preserve the wheel as it is not sounding good. I think I may be over stressing the motor with the bearing going out. And next week I will be in Daytona for the 24 so that one is a no no for me also. You boys have some good clean racing and I will be back for round 8 at Suzuka (if the wheel doesn't break). 

 

[SuperHawk]

I think we might be a little short this week. I know that Jefferson won't be able to make it as well. Darn guy thinks he can take a vacation...lol

 

[paulwildridge]

Sucks cuz that is such a fun track! 

On a separate note we were discussing building a rig out of aluminum extrusion after the last race. Here are pictures of my rig for reference of one way to work with 80/20.

 

[paulwildridge]

Last picture

 

[Fuzzwah]

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]1 - What are your thoughts on roval track? What is your favorite roval circuit?[/font]
I don't mind rovals, they're not my favorite tracks but I've had since great races at New Hampshire in the skippy a lot few seasons back. 

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]2 - Are you doing the 24h of Daytone next weekend? If yes, what car are you going to race?[/font]
Not this year. My team is entering two cars though, so I'm excited to follow along with them. 

[font=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]3 - Are you racing in the IMSA series on iRacing? Are you racing in other series?[/font]
I'm only racing in the official pro mazda series, really focusing on learning as much as I can about driving this car fast. 

 

[TRG]

Rig looks nice Paul! Do you find that you have enough rigidity in just the angle brackets?
We should move this into a different thread to discuss rigs/wheels/gear. I love the tech side of sim racing...

 

[Ari]

so glad Matthew won, i was feeling so guilty. good race everyone!

 

[TRG]

I will post a few clips tonight... I came very close to ending it for a few people on lap one!!

 

[Gunner]

Ugh, lap 1 was awful! I nearly lost it in T1 and had to try and regain my focus after that(my cockpit helped heh). Ari, no worries. I didn't have the confidence to break as late in that corner as you, Owen or Michael. Looks like I just caught you off guard breaking that early. I was very lucky and had very little damage.

Overall really fun race. I nearly ran out of fuel due to my gearing, and some silly fast guys actually made a mistake, no lack of excitement!

 

[paulwildridge]

Rig looks nice Paul! Do you find that you have enough rigidity in just the angle brackets?
We should move this into a different thread to discuss rigs/wheels/gear. I love the tech side of sim racing...

Thank you! Dany could you create a topic about hardware and software so we can continue this discussion?

 

[TRG]

Done!

http://precisionracingleague.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1394

 

[SharkV]

Enjoy!!!!

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[TRG]

Nice one Dany! I didn't realize how close you were. Too bad the overlay came up so quick, the finish for 2,3,4 was tight!