Skip Barber Race Series (2008-08-29 9:15 pm)
This is the race I was talking about the other day.
Probably my worst race ever. With a huge amount of incidents and one incident in particular really getting to me quite a bit - it wasn’t fun at all. You don’t get these kind of races often with iRacing but this one most certainly was a challenge to finish when all I really wanted to do was quit and try again later. Saying that though, I really think this is only the second time I’ve ever felt ‘taken out’ in an avoidable accident.
I started from 5th on the grid and got a decent start. Because of slower cars around lap 1 I wound up losing a position down the start/finish straight on lap 2.
I only really feel it’s safe to overtake down the straight at Lime Rock Park, so quite often during the race I was lifting off heavily just staying clean and biding my time. Eventually moving into 3rd place I set myself up for a pass on a slower car down the straight when to my great surprise, he came over and ran me off the road, making me take to the pit entrance to avoid him. I lifted off and now knew that if I was to make a pass on this guy, I’d have to do it at my first opportunity, which I did, which is when he hit me in the back after the pass - and spun me around. I dropped from 2nd to 10th.
I carried on driving but was pretty upset at what had happened. Eventually working my way back up to 4th-place, I made three major mistakes during the rest of the race and wound up finishing 5th.
Still not happy and I’m writing this days after it happened.
Tags: 2008 Season 3, iRacing.com, Lime Rock Park, Skip Barber 2000, Skip Barber Race Series