wOO HOOOO!!!
Finaly won a 200 point race!!!!
Although I was a little disappointed by it.
Someone has probably done this race with this car, But I'm not feeling the urge to go back through the previous 62 pages to find out.
I was bouncing around some tracks in my '92 NSX R and ended up in the endurance hall. I was watching some of the replays to try to find a race to take my close to stock car. (Oil change, refreshed, Twin clutch, semi-racing fly wheel and semi-racing exhaust, 2-way diff.)
I ended up an El Capitan in a race that I thought I was going to be seriously out classed in. Sports cars that stock had well over 300hp all lined up (Series-1, Six Speed, Callaway, Vantage, and a Benz. I forgot which one) and little ol' me in my under 300 hp NSX. I thought I would get crushed. But for S&G I thought I would give it a try.
I knew that the points were going to be high in this one. But I didn't think they would be a 200 pt. race.
Then those bold numbers appeared. And I thought, "Yep, this is going to suck."
Well we all launched and as I expected, everyone shot out way ahead of me. I managed to catch to catch the pack at the first turn, and passed the Callaway and Vantage. (The vantage almost spun me there, but I recovered.)
I noticed I was gaining on the Series-1 and Six Speed that were being held up by the Benz. We shot through the tunnel, up and over and speeding along to the hairpin turn. It was along that straight that I noticed that I was in 1st.
I though something went wrong, did the leaders take them selves out just past the tunnel. I check behind me and nope, they are all there. Its at that moment I realize that this little under powered car won't be able to beat the super cars on the straights, but I will be able to beat them out of the turns (which this track has a lot of) Sure enough most of the lead that I managed to create along the track was cut down at the main straight.
But I managed to stay ahead of the pack the entire race. At one point (around lap 59 of 66) the Series-1 was closing the gap seconds at a time to the point where he was riding my bumper comming up to the long straight. But as we cleared the final turn, he dropped off to pit and I took off trying to stretch the gap to give me some breathing room.
That was the last time I had to worry about someone on my tail. The final lap I took it easy and strolled across the finish line with about a 40 second gap between myself and the second place car.
I was really suprised at how well the NSX held its own among that group of cars. I knew that it could take thr turns with the best of them, but never imagined I would win a race in that line up.
And yes, I did run the entire race to get the 200 points. Bob sat in the pits (probably betting on the other cars.) I think this is the first endurance race where I have wanted to run the entire thing. Something about finaly hitting the 200 mark once.
Yeah for me!!!!