Smallhorses
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Ok, so this is my lastest construction project, and I've edited the SFGTP2 Results thread title to reflect what everyone already knew!!! 
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Proudly present:
The Official SFGTP3 logo from ceiling_fan's design studios! 👍
Participants all assembled, each guest was invited to create 2 qualifying race combinations by the highly technical means of writing them down on post-it notes which were then crumpled up and placed in a bag. A draw occured for the races which would determine the teams for the Clio Endurance event.
Races were submitted in the format of Car name / Tyre type / Track, and the following combos were drawn, by CAMikaze and juana b. respectively:
Qualifying Race 1 (Q1): Mazda Miata V-Special II '93 Sports Soft Tyres (S3) at Tsukuba (Selection by Smallhorses)
Qualifying Race 2 (Q2): BMW M5 '05 Road Tyres (N3) at Costa Di Amalfi Normal (Selection by alrivers)
After the shouting of "Fix!" had died down regarding my combo coming out, (What? I like Miatas available in White with the Tan roof!) and the groaning about N3 tyres on an M5, the drivers get on with posting up their best of 5 laps in Time Trial mode on each of the combos, and the results worked out as follows:
Teams were then assembled, pairing the fastest qualifier with the slowest qualifier, 2nd fastest with 2nd slowest, etc., etc.
Event 1: Renault Clio Endurance
Renault Clio Sport Trophy V6 24V Race Car '00 run on Racing Medium tyres for 50 laps at Twin Ring Motegi East Short Course.
Driver changes are mandatory at each pitstop. Competitors are able to run between 6 - 10 laps per set of tyres and fortunately all drivers are Manual shifters so no-one has the dilemma of running in Auto mode that they're no longer used to.
There are, however, several teams comprised of Wheelists and Button Mashers, so controller swapping at each stop causes some issues! This is especially true of the Pink team, who find that upon exiting the pits with Nick in the drivers seat, there's no input at all to be had from the wheel or pedals, nor was he able to pause the game! Much shouting later, another kindly driver manages to ensure that no-one is stuck mid-bend and pauses the game for everyone while the wheel on Pink Team's PS2 is relocated from USB Port 2 where it doesn't work, to USB Port 1 where it belongs, and racing resumes after a countdown. (And from the sandtrap for the Pink Team, which ultimately costs them 2nd place!) The Yellow car of Jerome and Chris romps home to victory almost a lap up on everyone up to 2nd place after Chris' experience with the Clio Cup car sees him a lot more comfortable than his M5 qualifying performance would've suggested!
A break for lunch occurs and a trip over to the Public Market for International Cuisine of numerous varieties, followed by a contented walk back to the venue and some impromptu "Pooper-scooping" in a nice display of community spirit by CAMikaze!
Event 2: 70s Babies! Handicap
A traditional UK/SFGTP style event where drivers all begin in the same vehicle, and drop through a series of slower vehicles as they win (2 car drop) or come in 2nd place (1 car drop.) With 10 drivers and 6 stations it's decided to make things flow easier, that 4 drivers swap on and off each time, meaning that 3rd & 4th place finishes are booby prizes, sitting off the next race along with 1st & 2nd placed drivers, but they retain the same car!
The overall winner is the first driver to win a race in the slowest car of the batch.
Our rides this time are a selection of 70s Babies, in honour of the hosts birthdates, and those of juana b., EDK & jump_ace too, with of course respect for our elders (from the 60s) and the younger members of our group (from the 80s!) In order of ride progression, they are as follows:
Dodge Charger Super Bee 426 Hemi '71
Plymouth Superbird '70
Dome Zero '78
Lotus Europa Special '71
BMW 2002 Turbo '73
Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R '73
Alpine 310 1600VE '73
Mitsubishi Colt Galant GTO MR '70
Tracks as ever are thrown out by the infamous Famine's Random Track Generator (RTG)!
The first and second fastest teams from the Clio Endurance sit off the first race, jump_ace, CAMikaze, SimRaceDriver, EDK taking the break while the rest of us leap into our Super Bees & head just a little way up the road to Sonoma for our first race!
Race 1: Infineon Sports Car Course
1st Kylehnat Charger
2nd Smallhorses Charger
3rd juana b. Charger
4th alrivers Charger
5th Strop Charger
6th ceiling_fan Charger
Race 2: Fuji 90s
1st jump_ace Charger
2nd CAMikaze Charger
3rd SimRaceDriver Charger
4th EDK Charger
5th Strop Charger
6th ceiling_fan Charger
Race 3: Tokyo R246
1st alrivers Charger
2nd juana b. Charger
3rd Strop Charger
4th ceiling_fan Charger
5th Smallhorses Superbird
6th Kylehnat Dome
Race 4: Seattle Reverse
1st SimRaceDriver Charger
2nd EDK Charger
3rd jump_ace Dome
4th Kylehnat Dome
5th Smallhorses Superbird
6th CAMikaze Superbird
Race 5: Midfield
1st Smallhorses Superbird
2nd juana b. Superbird
3rd ceiling_fan Charger
4th alrivers Dome
5th CAMikaze Superbird
6th Strop Charger
Race 6: Hong Kong Reverse
1st jump_ace Dome
2nd Kylehnat Dome
3rd EDK Superbird
4th CAMikaze Superbird
5th SimRaceDriver Dome
6th Strop Charger
Race 7: Seoul Reverse
1st Strop Charger
2nd alrivers Dome
3rd juana b. Dome
4th SimRaceDriver Dome
5th ceiling_fan Charger
6th Smallhorses Lotus
Race 8: Special Stage Route 5 Reverse
1st ceiling_fan Charger
2nd CAMikaze Superbird
3rd jump_ace BMW
4th Kylehnat Lotus
5th EDK Superbird
6th Smallhorses Lotus
Race 9: Laguna Seca
1st EDK Superbird
2nd SimRaceDriver Dome
3rd juana b. Dome
4th alrivers Lotus
5th Smallhorses Lotus
6th Strop Dome
Race 10: Cote D'Azur
Smallhorses: Suddenly found a track ideally suited to the Lotus, and Kyle & I pulled away from the pack during the first 2 laps, although I struggled to find a clean way past. Eventually went by on lap 3 when Kyle caught a barrier exiting the Bus-stop chicane, and I got a good run on him into the Swimming Pool complex.
1st Smallhorses Lotus
2nd Kylehnat Lotus
3rd jump_ace BMW
4th Strop Dome
5th CAMikaze Dome
6th ceiling_fan Dome
Race 11: New York Reverse
1st juana b. Dome
2nd CAMikaze Dome
3rd ceiling_fan Dome
4th alrivers Lotus
5th SimRaceDriver Lotus
6th EDK Lotus
Race 12: Suzuka West Short Course
1st Strop Dome
2nd EDK Lotus
3rd jump_ace BMW
4th SimRaceDriver Lotus
5th Kylehnat BMW
6th Smallhorses Skyline
Race 13: Clubman Stage Route 5
1st alrivers Lotus
2nd ceiling_fan Dome
3rd juana b. BMW
4th Kylehnat BMW
5th Smallhorses Skyline
6th CAMikaze Lotus
Race 14: Deep Forest
Smallhorses: Remember an incident ending lap 1 in which Kevin's BMW was ahead of me entering the last turn, and all of a sudden went skewing across the front of my Nissan towards the pit-entry having caught too much of the kerb on the turn exit! Somehow we avoided contact but I was too far back and too outclassed to catch the leaders. Kevin recovered to finish 4th, the second of the booby spots, but set us up for another Nissan/BMW showdown in Race 16.
1st jump_ace BMW
2nd SimRaceDriver Lotus
3rd Smallhorses Skyline
4th EDK BMW
5th Strop BMW
6th CAMikaze Lotus
Race 15: Opera Paris Reverse
1st juana b. BMW
2nd Kylehnat BMW
3rd alrivers Skyline
4th CAMikaze Lotus
5th ceiling_fan Lotus
6th Strop BMW
Race 16: Autumn Ring
Smallhorses: One of my favourite races of the weekend, spent much of it glued to the back of Kevin's BMW, but couldn't pass. He'd draw away through some of the lap, but I'd catch up in the 270-degree turn and the right turn before the start/finish straight. Ended the race less than 0.5s apart! 👍
1st EDK BMW
2nd Smallhorses Skyline
3rd jump_ace Alpine
4th SimRaceDriver BMW
5th Strop BMW
6th ceiling_fan Lotus
Race 17: Apricot Hill
1st Kylehnat Skyline
2nd ceiling_fan Lotus
3rd alrivers Skyline
4th juana b. Alpine
5th CAMikaze Lotus
6th Strop BMW
Race 18: High Speed Ring
1st SimRaceDriver BMW
2nd CAMikaze Lotus
3rd Strop BMW
4th jump_ace Alpine
5th Smallhorses Alpine
6th EDK Alpine
At this point with the circuits seeming to get longer, and the cars much slower, the race distance was cut from 5 to 4 laps on some of the tracks!
Race 19: Suzuka Circuit (4 Laps)
1st alrivers Skyline
2nd juana b. Alpine
3rd EDK Alpine
4th Kylehnat Mitsubishi
5th ceiling_fan BMW
6th Smallhorses Alpine
Race 20: Le Sarthe II (2 Laps)
1st CAMikaze BMW
2nd jump_ace Alpine
3rd Smallhorses Alpine
4th ceiling_fan BMW (Left the proceedings at this point as it was rapidly approaching 9:00PM!
)
5th SimRaceDriver Alpine
6th Strop BMW
Race 21: Deep Forest Reverse
1st Strop BMW
2nd Kylehnat Mitsubishi
3rd EDK Alpine
4th alrivers Mitsubishi
5th juana b. Mitsubishi
6th SimRaceDriver Alpine
Race 22: Grand Valley Speedway (4 Laps)
Smallhorses: Had a great battle for the lead here with Ray, shadowing his every move in the other Alpine which seemed ideally suited to GVS. Eventually found a way by out of the 2nd hairpin on the final lap and held on for the win, while trying desperately to break Ray's draft!
1st Smallhorses Alpine
2nd SimRaceDriver Alpine
3rd juana b. Mitsubishi
4th jump_ace Mitsubishi
5th alrivers Mitsubishi
6th CAMikaze Alpine
Race 23: Twin Ring Motegi Road Course (4 Laps)
1st EDK Alpine
2nd jump_ace Mitsubishi
3rd alrivers Mitsubishi
4th Kylehnat Mitsubishi
5th CAMikaze Alpine
6th Strop Alpine
Race 24: Nurburgring (1 Lap)
Smallhorses: An awesome finale to a great event. Myself, Kyle & Ray seemed to pull our odd-sounding Mitsubishis away, and a great 3-way battle raged for a lot of the lap. "Don't you dare! Don't you dare! Don't you dare!" Shouted Ray as Kyle and I overtook on either side of him through Lauda Links, and although we were both cleanly by, I had the inside (and non-ideal) line into Bergwerk which allowed the leaders to pull away about 3s in the run up to Karrussel. Was able to close again through the next part of the track and caught a good draft from Kyle out of Galgenkopf, flying by on the straight, and closing rapidly on Ray. Only caught his draft after Antoniusbrucke though, and though I'd closed up a lot by the final turn, the victory was Ray's with me 0.6s behind!
1st SimRaceDriver Mitsubishi
2nd Smallhorses Mitsubishi
3rd Kylehnat Mitsubishi
4th juana b. Mitsubishi
5th CAMikaze Alpine
6th Strop Alpine
Final Standings: (In order of who drove what.
!)
Dodge Charger Super Bee 426 Hemi '71: Everyone
Plymouth Superbird '70: Smallhorses; CAMikaze; juana b.; EDK;
Dome Zero '78: Kylehnat; jump_ace; alrivers; SimRaceDriver; juana b.; Strop; ceiling_fan; CAMikaze;
Lotus Europa Special '71: Smallhorses; Kylehnat; alrivers; EDK; SimRaceDriver; CAMikaze; ceiling_fan;
BMW 2002 Turbo '73: jump_ace; Kylehnat; juana b.; Strop; EDK; SimRaceDriver; ceiling_fan; CAMikaze;
Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R '73: Smallhorses; alrivers; Kylehnat;
Alpine 310 1600VE '73: jump_ace; juana b.; EDK; Smallhorses; SimRaceDriver; CAMikaze; Strop;
Mitsubishi Colt Galant GTO MR '70: Kylehnat; alrivers; juana b.; jump_ace; Smallhorses; SimRaceDriver; EDK;
Winner: SimRaceDriver
Proudly present:
The Official SFGTP3 logo from ceiling_fan's design studios! 👍
SFGTP3 Results: Day 1.
Participants all assembled, each guest was invited to create 2 qualifying race combinations by the highly technical means of writing them down on post-it notes which were then crumpled up and placed in a bag. A draw occured for the races which would determine the teams for the Clio Endurance event.
Races were submitted in the format of Car name / Tyre type / Track, and the following combos were drawn, by CAMikaze and juana b. respectively:
Qualifying Race 1 (Q1): Mazda Miata V-Special II '93 Sports Soft Tyres (S3) at Tsukuba (Selection by Smallhorses)
Qualifying Race 2 (Q2): BMW M5 '05 Road Tyres (N3) at Costa Di Amalfi Normal (Selection by alrivers)
After the shouting of "Fix!" had died down regarding my combo coming out, (What? I like Miatas available in White with the Tan roof!) and the groaning about N3 tyres on an M5, the drivers get on with posting up their best of 5 laps in Time Trial mode on each of the combos, and the results worked out as follows:
Code:
[COLOR="Green"]Driver: Q1: Q2: Total: Position:
[COLOR=black]jump_ace[/COLOR] 1'09.742 2'10.214 3'19.956 [COLOR=royalblue]1st[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]Smallhorses[/COLOR] 1'09.807 2'12.164 3'21.971 [COLOR=royalblue]2nd[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]Kylehnat[/COLOR] 1'10.691 2'11.402 3'22.093 [COLOR=royalblue]3rd[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]EDK[/COLOR] 1'10.335 2'11.848 3'22.183 [COLOR=royalblue]4th[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]juana b.[/COLOR] 1'10.392 2'12.792 3'23.184 [COLOR=royalblue]5th[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]alrivers[/COLOR] 1'11.737 2'12.423 3'24.160 [COLOR=royalblue]6th[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]SimRaceDriver[/COLOR] 1'10.845 2'16.146 3'26.991 [COLOR=royalblue]7th[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]Strop[/COLOR] 1'12.154 2'16.852 3'29.006 [COLOR=royalblue]8th[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]ceiling_fan[/COLOR] 1'12.360 2'17.170 3'29.530 [COLOR=royalblue]9th[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]CAMikaze[/COLOR] 1'11.092 2'20.957 3'32.049 [COLOR=royalblue]10th[/COLOR][/COLOR]Teams were then assembled, pairing the fastest qualifier with the slowest qualifier, 2nd fastest with 2nd slowest, etc., etc.
Event 1: Renault Clio Endurance
Renault Clio Sport Trophy V6 24V Race Car '00 run on Racing Medium tyres for 50 laps at Twin Ring Motegi East Short Course.
Driver changes are mandatory at each pitstop. Competitors are able to run between 6 - 10 laps per set of tyres and fortunately all drivers are Manual shifters so no-one has the dilemma of running in Auto mode that they're no longer used to.
There are, however, several teams comprised of Wheelists and Button Mashers, so controller swapping at each stop causes some issues! This is especially true of the Pink team, who find that upon exiting the pits with Nick in the drivers seat, there's no input at all to be had from the wheel or pedals, nor was he able to pause the game! Much shouting later, another kindly driver manages to ensure that no-one is stuck mid-bend and pauses the game for everyone while the wheel on Pink Team's PS2 is relocated from USB Port 2 where it doesn't work, to USB Port 1 where it belongs, and racing resumes after a countdown. (And from the sandtrap for the Pink Team, which ultimately costs them 2nd place!) The Yellow car of Jerome and Chris romps home to victory almost a lap up on everyone up to 2nd place after Chris' experience with the Clio Cup car sees him a lot more comfortable than his M5 qualifying performance would've suggested!
I was paired with SimRaceDriver (Ray). We elected to use his setup since it had a sliding seat, was best suited to fit both of our driving styles, and had all of those cool buttons.I ended up going first. Ray was patient with me, as I was accidentally booted into the sand early, wore the tires out in 7 laps, and missed the pit entry badly, costing us lots of time and starting him off his first run in last place. He fought back gallantly took advantage of the mistakes of others, and endured my plodding but relatively mistake free driving for the rest of the event. 👍
Code:
[COLOR="Green"]Position: Drivers: Colour:
[COLOR=royalblue]1st[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]jump_ace[/COLOR] / [COLOR=black]CAMikaze[/COLOR] Yellow
[COLOR=royalblue]2nd[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]EDK[/COLOR] / [COLOR=black]SimRaceDriver[/COLOR] Red
[COLOR=royalblue]3rd[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Smallhorses[/COLOR] / [COLOR=black]ceiling_fan[/COLOR] Pink
[COLOR=royalblue]4th[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]juana b.[/COLOR] / [COLOR=black]alrivers[/COLOR] Black
[COLOR=royalblue]5th[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]Kylehnat[/COLOR] / [COLOR=black]Strop[/COLOR] Silver[/COLOR]A break for lunch occurs and a trip over to the Public Market for International Cuisine of numerous varieties, followed by a contented walk back to the venue and some impromptu "Pooper-scooping" in a nice display of community spirit by CAMikaze!
Event 2: 70s Babies! Handicap
A traditional UK/SFGTP style event where drivers all begin in the same vehicle, and drop through a series of slower vehicles as they win (2 car drop) or come in 2nd place (1 car drop.) With 10 drivers and 6 stations it's decided to make things flow easier, that 4 drivers swap on and off each time, meaning that 3rd & 4th place finishes are booby prizes, sitting off the next race along with 1st & 2nd placed drivers, but they retain the same car!
The overall winner is the first driver to win a race in the slowest car of the batch.
Our rides this time are a selection of 70s Babies, in honour of the hosts birthdates, and those of juana b., EDK & jump_ace too, with of course respect for our elders (from the 60s) and the younger members of our group (from the 80s!) In order of ride progression, they are as follows:
Dodge Charger Super Bee 426 Hemi '71
Plymouth Superbird '70
Dome Zero '78
Lotus Europa Special '71
BMW 2002 Turbo '73
Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R '73
Alpine 310 1600VE '73
Mitsubishi Colt Galant GTO MR '70
Tracks as ever are thrown out by the infamous Famine's Random Track Generator (RTG)!
The first and second fastest teams from the Clio Endurance sit off the first race, jump_ace, CAMikaze, SimRaceDriver, EDK taking the break while the rest of us leap into our Super Bees & head just a little way up the road to Sonoma for our first race!
Race 1: Infineon Sports Car Course
1st Kylehnat Charger
2nd Smallhorses Charger
3rd juana b. Charger
4th alrivers Charger
5th Strop Charger
6th ceiling_fan Charger
Race 2: Fuji 90s
1st jump_ace Charger
2nd CAMikaze Charger
3rd SimRaceDriver Charger
4th EDK Charger
5th Strop Charger
6th ceiling_fan Charger
Race 3: Tokyo R246
1st alrivers Charger
2nd juana b. Charger
3rd Strop Charger
4th ceiling_fan Charger
5th Smallhorses Superbird
6th Kylehnat Dome
Race 4: Seattle Reverse
1st SimRaceDriver Charger
2nd EDK Charger
3rd jump_ace Dome
4th Kylehnat Dome
5th Smallhorses Superbird
6th CAMikaze Superbird
Race 5: Midfield
1st Smallhorses Superbird
2nd juana b. Superbird
3rd ceiling_fan Charger
4th alrivers Dome
5th CAMikaze Superbird
6th Strop Charger
Race 6: Hong Kong Reverse
My first race of note would be the Hong Kong Reverse. It was my first event in the SuperBird. What a terrible match for that track.But I was able to be a track hog the entire time and make it a complete mess for Kyle and Jerome in the Domes. They eventually managed to scoot by and not get passed again on the next straight. But there was a lot of wall banging and quite a few "opps, sorry's" on that one, let me tell you.
1st jump_ace Dome
2nd Kylehnat Dome
3rd EDK Superbird
4th CAMikaze Superbird
5th SimRaceDriver Dome
6th Strop Charger
Race 7: Seoul Reverse
1st Strop Charger
2nd alrivers Dome
3rd juana b. Dome
4th SimRaceDriver Dome
5th ceiling_fan Charger
6th Smallhorses Lotus
Race 8: Special Stage Route 5 Reverse
1st ceiling_fan Charger
2nd CAMikaze Superbird
3rd jump_ace BMW
4th Kylehnat Lotus
5th EDK Superbird
6th Smallhorses Lotus
Race 9: Laguna Seca
1st EDK Superbird
2nd SimRaceDriver Dome
3rd juana b. Dome
4th alrivers Lotus
5th Smallhorses Lotus
6th Strop Dome
Race 10: Cote D'Azur
Smallhorses: Suddenly found a track ideally suited to the Lotus, and Kyle & I pulled away from the pack during the first 2 laps, although I struggled to find a clean way past. Eventually went by on lap 3 when Kyle caught a barrier exiting the Bus-stop chicane, and I got a good run on him into the Swimming Pool complex.
1st Smallhorses Lotus
2nd Kylehnat Lotus
3rd jump_ace BMW
4th Strop Dome
5th CAMikaze Dome
6th ceiling_fan Dome
Race 11: New York Reverse
1st juana b. Dome
2nd CAMikaze Dome
3rd ceiling_fan Dome
4th alrivers Lotus
5th SimRaceDriver Lotus
6th EDK Lotus
Race 12: Suzuka West Short Course
Next one of note - Suzuka West. Even after the first 2 laps, most of us kept missing the first turn, to varying degrees.
1st Strop Dome
2nd EDK Lotus
3rd jump_ace BMW
4th SimRaceDriver Lotus
5th Kylehnat BMW
6th Smallhorses Skyline
Race 13: Clubman Stage Route 5
1st alrivers Lotus
2nd ceiling_fan Dome
3rd juana b. BMW
4th Kylehnat BMW
5th Smallhorses Skyline
6th CAMikaze Lotus
Race 14: Deep Forest
Smallhorses: Remember an incident ending lap 1 in which Kevin's BMW was ahead of me entering the last turn, and all of a sudden went skewing across the front of my Nissan towards the pit-entry having caught too much of the kerb on the turn exit! Somehow we avoided contact but I was too far back and too outclassed to catch the leaders. Kevin recovered to finish 4th, the second of the booby spots, but set us up for another Nissan/BMW showdown in Race 16.
1st jump_ace BMW
2nd SimRaceDriver Lotus
3rd Smallhorses Skyline
4th EDK BMW
5th Strop BMW
6th CAMikaze Lotus
Race 15: Opera Paris Reverse
1st juana b. BMW
2nd Kylehnat BMW
3rd alrivers Skyline
4th CAMikaze Lotus
5th ceiling_fan Lotus
6th Strop BMW
Race 16: Autumn Ring
Smallhorses: One of my favourite races of the weekend, spent much of it glued to the back of Kevin's BMW, but couldn't pass. He'd draw away through some of the lap, but I'd catch up in the 270-degree turn and the right turn before the start/finish straight. Ended the race less than 0.5s apart! 👍
Autumn Ring with Nick - One of the most heated battles I had all weekend. Nick and I were really close in a lot of spots, but zero contact, to my recollection. I think the gap was less than 0.1 s at the end.
1st EDK BMW
2nd Smallhorses Skyline
3rd jump_ace Alpine
4th SimRaceDriver BMW
5th Strop BMW
6th ceiling_fan Lotus
Race 17: Apricot Hill
1st Kylehnat Skyline
2nd ceiling_fan Lotus
3rd alrivers Skyline
4th juana b. Alpine
5th CAMikaze Lotus
6th Strop BMW
Race 18: High Speed Ring
HSR in the Alpine - Me spinning and cussing and taking Jerome out by spinning and cussing. Me repeatedly murmuring, "I hate this car, I hate this car"
1st SimRaceDriver BMW
2nd CAMikaze Lotus
3rd Strop BMW
4th jump_ace Alpine
5th Smallhorses Alpine
6th EDK Alpine
At this point with the circuits seeming to get longer, and the cars much slower, the race distance was cut from 5 to 4 laps on some of the tracks!
Race 19: Suzuka Circuit (4 Laps)
Suzuka in the Alpine - After a tip from Jerome on dragging the brakes with my left foot, I begin to like the silly Alpine. I manage a nice hotlap and 3rd place. There is still hope for me.
1st alrivers Skyline
2nd juana b. Alpine
3rd EDK Alpine
4th Kylehnat Mitsubishi
5th ceiling_fan BMW
6th Smallhorses Alpine
Race 20: Le Sarthe II (2 Laps)
1st CAMikaze BMW
2nd jump_ace Alpine
3rd Smallhorses Alpine
4th ceiling_fan BMW (Left the proceedings at this point as it was rapidly approaching 9:00PM!
)5th SimRaceDriver Alpine
6th Strop BMW
Race 21: Deep Forest Reverse
1st Strop BMW
2nd Kylehnat Mitsubishi
3rd EDK Alpine
4th alrivers Mitsubishi
5th juana b. Mitsubishi
6th SimRaceDriver Alpine
Race 22: Grand Valley Speedway (4 Laps)
Smallhorses: Had a great battle for the lead here with Ray, shadowing his every move in the other Alpine which seemed ideally suited to GVS. Eventually found a way by out of the 2nd hairpin on the final lap and held on for the win, while trying desperately to break Ray's draft!
1st Smallhorses Alpine
2nd SimRaceDriver Alpine
3rd juana b. Mitsubishi
4th jump_ace Mitsubishi
5th alrivers Mitsubishi
6th CAMikaze Alpine
Race 23: Twin Ring Motegi Road Course (4 Laps)
Montegi in the Alpine - Finally, a flat track with enough straight sections to out run cars with inferior HP. I like the Alpine again, but am happy to be rid of the 🤬 thing.
Then I never get a chance to run in the last car due to too many races stuck in the Alpine(Did I mention I hate the Alpine?)
1st EDK Alpine
2nd jump_ace Mitsubishi
3rd alrivers Mitsubishi
4th Kylehnat Mitsubishi
5th CAMikaze Alpine
6th Strop Alpine
Race 24: Nurburgring (1 Lap)
Smallhorses: An awesome finale to a great event. Myself, Kyle & Ray seemed to pull our odd-sounding Mitsubishis away, and a great 3-way battle raged for a lot of the lap. "Don't you dare! Don't you dare! Don't you dare!" Shouted Ray as Kyle and I overtook on either side of him through Lauda Links, and although we were both cleanly by, I had the inside (and non-ideal) line into Bergwerk which allowed the leaders to pull away about 3s in the run up to Karrussel. Was able to close again through the next part of the track and caught a good draft from Kyle out of Galgenkopf, flying by on the straight, and closing rapidly on Ray. Only caught his draft after Antoniusbrucke though, and though I'd closed up a lot by the final turn, the victory was Ray's with me 0.6s behind!
1st SimRaceDriver Mitsubishi
2nd Smallhorses Mitsubishi
3rd Kylehnat Mitsubishi
4th juana b. Mitsubishi
5th CAMikaze Alpine
6th Strop Alpine
Final Standings: (In order of who drove what.
!)Dodge Charger Super Bee 426 Hemi '71: Everyone
Plymouth Superbird '70: Smallhorses; CAMikaze; juana b.; EDK;
Dome Zero '78: Kylehnat; jump_ace; alrivers; SimRaceDriver; juana b.; Strop; ceiling_fan; CAMikaze;
Lotus Europa Special '71: Smallhorses; Kylehnat; alrivers; EDK; SimRaceDriver; CAMikaze; ceiling_fan;
BMW 2002 Turbo '73: jump_ace; Kylehnat; juana b.; Strop; EDK; SimRaceDriver; ceiling_fan; CAMikaze;
Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R '73: Smallhorses; alrivers; Kylehnat;
Alpine 310 1600VE '73: jump_ace; juana b.; EDK; Smallhorses; SimRaceDriver; CAMikaze; Strop;
Mitsubishi Colt Galant GTO MR '70: Kylehnat; alrivers; juana b.; jump_ace; Smallhorses; SimRaceDriver; EDK;
Winner: SimRaceDriver
I was in the CL600, a great fit for the track since the understeer is less of an issue with so much track to work with. And it's my favorite track. 
of the races that I participated in, but would appreciate you guys posting your own recollections, funny moments, peeves, and "Quoteworthy" moments for these events here, so I can edit them back into the result post for the relevant day. 
I also didn't win another event (I got 2nd I *think*) because of a crummy 3rd lap at Sears Point, but congrats to the winners there for a steady finish 👍
