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Results | Replay File (561MB)
| Pos | Driver | Start Pos |
Out |
Interval | Laps Led |
Fastest Lap Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff Scheidemantle | 4 | Running | 83 | 47.429 | |
| 2 | Bill Benedict | 25 | Running | -00.094 | 3 | 47.465 |
| 3 | Robin Mundhenk | 1 | Running | -00.138 | 72 | 47.608 |
| 4 | Paul Grimsley | 34 | Running | -00.372 | 13 | 47.569 |
| 5 | Morgan Schooley | 13 | Running | -00.439 | 0 | 47.237 |
| 14 | Timothy Wheatley | 11 | Running | -1 Lap | 0 | 47.280 |
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This race is a tale of what might have been: The evening before the iRacing Daytona 500 I changed my PCs motherboard is preparation for a graphics card upgrade and unfortunately although I reinstalled Windows 7, reinstalled a bunch of programs, got iRacing working, etc, I forgot to do something terribly important…
On Saturday 13th February, 2010 I was unable to run the 500, but got in a quick qualifying session for my race on the 20th just 15 minutes before the race session: I set a 48.075 and this would put me in 11th-place to start the race.
With 30 minutes of warm-up, it gave everybody plenty of time to check their setup, practice put stops, etc. I personally just practiced getting into and off pit road at speed and missed an opportunity to notice and correct that ‘terribly important’ thing once again…
The start of the iRacing Daytona 500.
I have to admit, I believed this race was going to be fairly easy for me. I didn’t know that I’d win it, but I knew I had won the first ever official race with this car in the service and just a week earlier I had finished second in a NASCAR Class A race. I ran the pace lap in fourth-gear so I would use as little fuel as possible and when the green flag flew I gained a single position, moving up to tenth.
We raced through a few cautions in the early laps, but things remained fairly constant for me until lap 15: It was the first time I’d really had to slam on the brake and when I did so it must have knocked my calibration off (recalibrating was the ‘terribly important’ thing I’d forgotten to do). At that point I was running 12th and just biding my time, but unknown to me the brake was now dragging and I hadn’t noticed the tiny sliver of red on the brake indicator.
Over the next 100 laps or so I just went backwards. At the time I believed I had lost an engine cylinder and was down on power, it wasn’t until about lap 114 that I realized what had happened, having finally noticed that the brake indicator was showing applied brakes.
Initially I just pulled back on the brake with my left foot while pushing on the throttle with my right, but after I began to experience cramping I managed to fix it for good on lap 164. However, during those last few laps I had had enormous fun: I normally wait until there’s ten laps remaining before I push really hard to get to the front, but knowing my position I used a combination of strategy, aggression and good luck to come back from two laps down to one, and come back from 22nd-place on lap 114 to 14th as the race ended.
Three-wide at Daytona.
Every position was hard fought and it was enormous fun to be forced to concentrate for that long: It reminded me of the way I had felt during the iRacing Rolex 2.4. The only difference really with the iRacing Daytona 500 was that it was an unpredictable type of racing and that was proved when on lap 194 of 200, I got involved in a big wreck that started ahead of me in the pack.
So I ended with mixed emotions, just like everyone else: At one point I had resigned myself to just running for safety rating with a damaged engine, but I ended up having a lot of fun in some really tight racing. I had very few incidents (scraped the wall on lap 100, car contact on 190, the wreck on 194 and an off track on 198 while I got out of the way of the other cars on the final restart), but I still can’t help but think what might have happened had I not been trailing brake for half of the race!
My only real solace is that if this were real life, NASCAR would have probably forced me to start at the back anyway due to an ‘engine change’ in my PC… Starting back there I probably would have gotten involved in one of those early accidents and wouldn’t have had the fun I did during the race. Maybe next year I’ll be able to finish on the lead lap!
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[..YouTube..] great video, nice driving – thanks for sharing!
Fantastic racing skills !
used to play first Nascar by papyrus and enjoyed this video. Now few days begining in iracing, hope to drive beside you someday!
See you on-track, Philippe!
[..YouTube..] They way the car moves on the bumps is amazing. I play nascar on the 360, and at Daytona there are no bumps. This game is amazing.
[..YouTube..] nice driving. keep up your great work for the community
[..YouTube..] this is amazingly realistic
[..YouTube..] the one thing i hate about iracing at daytona is the bumos in 3 and 4 mak eyou life so you have to do your passing early back streach or through the trio oval
[..YouTube..] @ZForce14 game isnt the right word. =-) i play 360 too but just got a steering wheel today and am signing up tomorrow
[..YouTube..] game isnt the right word. =-) i play 360 too but just got a steering wheel today and am signing up tomorrow
[..YouTube..] this game looks so much better than nascar 09. probably cause they update it. but still the way the car sounds and the way the car runs over the bumps is how a game should be. i have the GT driving force wheel for PS3 and it feels pretty good, i cant imagine how it would feel on this.
[..YouTube..] @bosoxfan96 playing nascar on a console is nothing compared to sim racing on a PC. you should get subscribe to iracing and try it yourself. you will never go back to console racing.
[..YouTube..] playing nascar on a console is nothing compared to sim racing on a PC. you should get subscribe to iracing and try it yourself. you will never go back to console racing.
[..YouTube..] wow that sucks dude. all that time spent racing and all for nothing at the end. where did you finish and were you on the lead lap?
[..YouTube..] @JosesDonkey2112 14th, -1 lap
[..YouTube..] 14th, -1 lap
[..YouTube..] @TimWRacing sure looks like tons of fun though! nice vid!
[..YouTube..] sure looks like tons of fun though! nice vid!
[..YouTube..] Any reason your tach is upside down?
[..YouTube..] @mechyboy27 It’s like that in the real cars… I can’t actually remember the reason why.
[..YouTube..] It’s like that in the real cars… I can’t actually remember the reason why.
[..YouTube..] Was this THE actual iracing daytona 500?
[..YouTube..] @robmerrill888 THE doesn’t fit. It was one of the Daytona 500′s, yes, but iRacing splits entrants into multiple races, you can’t have 1000+ people on the same server and track.
[..YouTube..] THE doesn’t fit. It was one of the Daytona 500′s, yes, but iRacing splits entrants into multiple races, you can’t have 1000+ people on the same server and track.
[..YouTube..] @TimWRacing Oh? I thought it was possible to have 1000 racers on the track at once? What a fool I am! . . .
[..YouTube..] Oh? I thought it was possible to have 1000 racers on the track at once? What a fool I am! . . .
[..YouTube..] @robmerrill888 Um, just answering your question. No need to be so sensitive.
[..YouTube..] Um, just answering your question. No need to be so sensitive.
[..YouTube..] Ohh man I watched all of them videos.. after all them laps for that to happen.. I would be suprised if you put your fist through the monitor after.. I gues that racing for you at the end of the day. It happens….