No Progress :(

I've been off racing for a few weeks. I have been a bit dismayed by my lack of progress in races lately. I know exactly what the problem is: I just cannot seem to get the car(s) rotated into the corners. Oh, and I seem to be having some trouble with my brake pedal.

So, addressing my problem, I decided to take a brake from races to improve my driving standards. Sticking exactly to my plan, after 15 mins of practice I joined a race at the Jefferson course of the Summit Point Raceway, in the reverse layout.

As usual, I did not come last by virtue of the fact I never spun out. Although I did almost get taken out by a flying Mazda!!!

iRacing - Flaying Mazda: The Sequel!

So I racing the Production Cars championship at the Jefferson course (reverse) at Summit Point Raceway, minding my own business, doing really badly, when I *just* miss a Mazda flying over from the other side of the track!

In retrospect, I really wish I had save the race replay so I could see that incident in glorious detail, but sadly I didn't. I'll be putting the full race up in the coming days!

Recap - iRacing

I've only done a few races on iRacing since I've been away and I've only put one online. It was a reasonably good race, right up until I smashed my car into the barriers on the last lap! You can see that the clip above, and you can watch the full race below:

Not a rookie anymore!!!

To reaffirm what the title says: I'm not a rookie anymore! After doing my second race at the Jefferson course in the Mazda's, I finally got my D-class licence, opening up a whole load more racing opportunities on the roads!

Getting a 2nd place at Jefferson, this race was also my first ever laps led in iRacing. Still learning and still seeking that first win, hopefully a change of scenery will help! Onwards and upwards.....

My second race at Jefferson is below:

Back to iRacing!

Back to iRacing for the first time in a good few weeks. Did a quick race at the Jefferson Course at Summit Point Raceway. No qualifying, 10 minutes of practice and starting last on the grid: I wasn't expecting much! Much to my surprise then when, after a wonderfully manic first lap, I come out in 3rd place! The video at the top is a commentary of the first lap as well as replays of a funny incident involving a flying Mazda!

The video below is the full race video from my perspective! The first lap is well worth the watch!

iRacing set!

With exams done, I can finally get some serious racing done. I've put a few racing videos online lately and here's a few more! The first video is my most intense oval race to date, resulting in a 3-way loggerhead for 1st place with me coming off second. A great, clean race - great fun!

The second video is another fantastic race for me; racing the Mazda MX-5's at Lime Rock Park. It was great fun and despite crashing twice, I fought off a last lap challenge and held on to 3rd place - my first ever podium in iRacing.

This third video was one I raced a while back and did a post-race commentry for. It was a devastating race: I was in 2nd place, fighting for the lead, when a mistake put me behind a back marker who promptly took me off the track! Went from fighting for the lead to dragging it home in 9th place. Hmph!

The final video is another race in Street Stocks at Charlotte Motor Speedway. This was a good, solid race where I brought the car home in 3rd place to complete my 3rd podium in three races, having never had a podium before then!

My shortest race in iRacing!

Did a lot of racing this week on iRacing. The pinnacle of the events was supposed to be the Mazda MX-5's at Summit Point Raceway, but that race turned out to be my shortest in my iRacing career so far *sadface*.

Here's what happened:

Street Cars at Charlotte Motor Speedway Trio!

Another couple of days in iRacing, doing a trio of races at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.The races weren't hugely successful - being blighted by several crashes - but they were fun and I did finally get out of my rookie oval licence which is always good!

I'll be following these videos up with highlights at the bottom of the videos for those that don't want to see absolutely everything.

I'll do another post when I've got the highlights done, but for now, here's the full videos:

Back To Racing

Put these videos online a while ago. I've been getting back to iRacing, making videos of my journey through the rookie categories and onwards. I'm starting to get back into road racing, although I am still regularly doing oval races too.

The first video is my first road race in a long while, where I had a great save from a first lap incident. After several ups and downs, finished 4th which was not too bad.


The second is one of the few oval races I've ever done where it has been clean, constant racing from start to finish and was the best race at the time for me!

Back to racing!

So, in the rare few minutes I get off each week from university work and real work, I've taken up iRacing! It's time to put my brilliant new equipment as well as my skills to the test against some highly skilled racers online. And how do I stack up? Well, not great (see below)!


Oh well, I'm still getting used to a new sim, as well as my new equipment, on tracks and cars I've never really driven before. While you might think I'm just making excuses for myself, well I am, but these things are very important! - particularly because of the licence and safety rating that iRating uses, but more on that later on! For now, if anyone wants to see my full second (and most successful) race, it's linked here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX5qVTsH-88

My friend encouraged me to start iRacing, he's been doing it for year. Some of his videos are great and his channel is well worth checking out. Below is my favourite, and remember - this is perfectly legal!