Riverside Post Race

[Ced Collins]

Well Congrats to Mark on the win. I know Dale led a lot so I'll be looking at the replay. Thanks to all that came out. Good to see Bob and Mark B out, always good to have old buds show up. Hope you guys had a good time.

Not the debut for the NTP I wanted. Started well until i clipped the grass going on to the back straight and that was the beginning to the end. At least I got to see where I would lose time to Mark...lol. Will be closing that gap shortly...lol.

Next track pack will be out in the next few days so look for it.
Have a Happy New Year everyone and thanks for being a part of PORRS.

[rickrey]

I want to apologize for the delay , when I exited Q, I hit the sleep button by mistake, when I got out and finally back in the pits I did not realize that my wheel drivers had not loaded back up. Race starts and wheel is as floppy as a wet noodle, no spring return, no feedback . Thanks for the time to try and reset, which I thought would d/l the drivers again, but it DID NOT WORK ...Did not worry about it, was not going to ask for time again, just raced with a floppy wheel. Congrats to Mark, you are a machine. Thanks to ALL DRIVERS who allowed room to pass, you were very correct in your race lines Everyone have a safe and Happy New YEAR ;D!!!!! Cya on track.............

P.S. Oh yeah Ced!!, for some reason Scott and I had the same pit stall It cost me about 5/8 sec. on the first stop that killed me

[scottr]

I had a good run going the first and second gas runs. I had a great chasing battle with Mark. It was really hard to pass even with draft. I think I may have slid across his nose on one of our runs through the first turn but no crashing resulted and the race was back on. I lost some time in the pits missing my stall then stalling the car. Can't blame the pit crew for that. I got a little tangled up (sorry to M Bradshaw) trying to force a pass where I should not have. Congrats to Mark Dale and Sandy. See you all next year.

[Bob"oldnslo"Roberson]

It was good to be back racing after a long long layoff. I really appreciate Ced for holding up the race while I got straightened out.
I found myself in an unusual position of racing someone. Usually I'm just tooling along by myself and have very little interaction with other cars except when they pass me.
However, James gave me a really good setup and I could actually race with some of the non aliens.
But, I think I might have caused a few incidents that I can only blame on my poor vision out the back and of course total lack of peripheral vision.
So if I bumped you during the race , I apologize.

[Sandy Robinson]

Sorry about all the "will I start/won't I start" confusion. We had a 7 ft long board blow off the building next door and into one of our windows. The landlord came over to help with the temporary repairs and I thought I would have to help. Fortunately all I had to do was remove the storm window and then I was free to race.

The race itself was a lot of fun. I think I set the turbo boost a little low but other than that I was pleased with the car's performance and where I finished. I think I caught Susan by surprise on the right hander before the back straight. I don't think she expected me to be there and ran right into my left side. I was ok but I thought I saw her go spinning off the track. Very sorry about that Susan. Hope it didn't ruin your race.

SandyR

[oldslowfred]

embarrassing... ran out of gas
but to make matters worse, when the engine started to cough I started downshifting instead of coasting and then hit the wall in the pit entrance lane

well hopefully I can at least finish the race today at Lime Rock