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For those reading who may not know, iRacing time trials are single car competitions which run on the track being raced each week. You have to do a series of laps without error and it’s your average laptime that goes forward as your final result. Points are then calculated as the week goes along so that the fastest car overall gets 100 points and the slowest gets 1 point, if you are exactly between those two in time you would get 50 points.

I missed weeks four and five due to how busy I was with work. Still, I found myself in contention when I returned and managed to carry that through Week 6, 7 and 8. Ending the week I had to rush through these time trials and really didn’t perform as good as I have in the past. Still, here is where I stand in this week’s results:

I had no time to learn Zandvoort and get a time in the Skip Barber Formula 2000. Although I know the track I couldn’t start lapping it fast without error so decided to skip the week. I feel like this (and the fact I won’t have the time to test on any of the other remaining tracks) will stop me from being able to get a top-three in either of the road racing divisions. I am having continued success in the ovals though, even though I was rushed. My best performance this week was probably the Class A at Indianapolis. I wasn’t particularly fast, but Indy is such a tough oval as you really feel like you’re threading the needle to make it without touching the walls…

Going into Week 9 I am in the top-two for every oval division and look pretty good. My only concern is that I am still two weeks behind in most of them and although this may give me an opportunity to leap ahead, it also may give someone I didn’t think was in contention a chance to surprise me and take away a position. I really think I can finish in the top-three for every oval division though, and that’s going to be really cool if I can pull it off.

Again I’m still looking forward to Week 9, it’s going to be interesting to see how the points start to adjust with people beginning to drop their worst scoring weeks. I, of course, will be gaining two full weeks because I only have scored six out of eight anyway.

Here is the points as they stand at time of posting, close to ending Week 8: