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I’m still struggling in the 48’s around LRP in the Star Mazda. Hopefully this 46.258 lap can give me a few pointers;

Star Mazda at Lime Rock Park - 46.258 from BryanH on Vimeo

Another awesome Team Redline demonstration;

The iRacing coverage continues in the motoring press, this time a pretty generic article AutoWeek, which reads more like a press release.

Looks like an update today @ 13:55 GMT with various bug fixes;

- A series banner now loads in-sim.
- Fixed a bug where the exit car message would show while pitting.
- Fixed a bug where a replay TV camera could move strangely when the replay buffer is full.
- Fixed a phantom collision bug at Lowes.
- Fixed a bug where the available reset could be used without resetting.
- Fixed a bug where passing during a caution was not properly penalized if the race finished under caution.
- Fixed the auto-brake so the car won’t roll on the starting grid.
- Fixed a bug where if you missed the race start you could be a lap down.

I think the most important fix is the one in bold as I lost 2 places to that in a Silverado race last week!

A nice article on iRacing in Motorsport Magazine

Another Team Redline video featuring Greger Huutu and his unfeasable simracing skills;

Image via Wikipedia

After the incident-fest that was Daytona last week I was hoping Milwaukee would be more enjoyable.

Finding a set-up that wasn’t too loose and didn’t degrade too quickly proved elusive so I stuck with the ‘Advanced’ set-up that I’d used for practice. I knew it was a little off the pace but I found it pretty stable and was pretty confident that I could handle it for 120 laps.

I found myself qualifying in 6th in a pretty decent field (2235 SOF) of 15.

My series of terrible starts continued when on lap 3, coming out of T4 the 5th place truck got the power down too early and oversteered right into me and sent me into the wall and a reset being necessary. A lap down and 4x incidents already and another 117 laps to go!

With no expectations for the rest of the race I hoped to pick up some places with retirements so decided to take it easy and not put myself in any danger, running at the back of the field.

As luck would have it, on lap 30 after the restart, the leader went way wide into T3, taking out the 2nd place driver allowing the 2 trucks a lap down through and to get our lap back.

I continued to stay out of trouble and to keep my tyres in decent shape after that to try to take advantage of the inevitable mistakes. it was evident that I wasn’t quite on the pace, whenever I grabbed a place or two after a yellow I got picked off again fairly quickly. Still, I was pretty steady and didn’t make any further mistakes to finally finish in 8th (I was the #8 car so well predicted iRacing!) and +0.08 on my SR to start the long haul back to getting over 4.99!

Here’s a couple of reviews of iRacing, one positive and one not quite so positive!;

• Road and Track
• Motors TV [video]

I get the impression that iRacing are starting to ramp up the marketing at the moment, we’re starting to see quite a bit of coverage outside of the simracing community.

Posted by Dustin McGrew of Mid-Atlantic Racing

iRacing Silverado Truck Race at Daytona from Dustin McGrew on Vimeo.