SRC Race 5-6 VIR Grand East

A very difficult and long race.  The replay did save but once again the pause button doesn't work.  There were some moments of contact that needed to be looked at, but without full pause control over the replay it is too difficult to see exactly what happened.  If you were a driver with a lot of race time penalty, I would urge you to practice more and stay out of trouble.  We will have the DQ option on next week.

Our winner was Eries with a best lap of 2:40.649. In 2nd place was GTDon with a best lap of 2:40.276 while gaining 9 positions due to a poor qualy. 3rd goes to ChevyPower the pole sitter with a fastest race lap of 2:39.798.

Edelbrock Racing showed up with no livery and earns a -1pt team penalty, and warning/strikes for SirKane, TRIDENT, and Mexirican with a -1pt penalty for all three individual drivers.

Well done to those few who remained 100% clean to keep their clean racer bonuses:

NawtyDawgz
GTDon
The mexirican16

Position	Driver	Pre-Race Skill	Post-Race Skill
1	ZAR Eries	Platinum	Pro
2	GTDon2	Pro	Platinum
3	RIOT ChevyPower	Platinum	Platinum
4	Co0l 5tory Br0	Gold	Gold
5	xNoRacialx	Bronze	Gold
6	NaughtyDawgz	Silver	Gold
7	ITS Wi11iE	Gold	Gold
8	fabiomqs	Silver	Gold
9	the mexirican 16	Silver	Gold
10	EarnedCarrot925	Silver	Silver
11	AAR OneShot	Bronze	Silver
12	Racer18 V8G	Silver	Silver
13	Papa creech172	Bronze	Silver
14	TRIDENT9069	Silver	Silver
15	SirKane2	Bronze	Bronze

I have to say, everyone improved in this race compared to last week, in the sense that there was less contact and more drivers who had no time penalties.  Even OneShot who was DQ'd for too much time penalty, actually did drive slightly better than in last weeks race.  However, neither driver will be assessed a warning penalty because per the rules, if you lag out, DQ, or park, or not finish in any way, you are simply not counted as participating in the race.

On pole was Eries, who ended up 2nd after long battles with the other top 3 drivers where he collected a lot of time penalty, and the fastest race lap of 2:39.874.  Taking the top spot was his Penske teammate GTDon after inheriting the lead on the last lap from his other teammate Johnathon, who ran out of fuel but still managed to finish 4th. Taking 3rd was RIOT ChevyPower who had to battle the entire Team Penske team the entire race.  It was a lot of hard charging, and clean racing, with many tight lead changes at the front.

Drivers who retained their clean driver bonuses were GTDon, Johnathon, NoRacial, fabio, mexirican, incognito, and GoSox. Congrats to these guys!

In the season team points race, the defending champions Team Penske are holding a solid lead over Titans of Tougé, with CR1 Racing in 3rd.

Driver season points pending...


   

Position	Driver	Pre-Race Skill	Post-Race Skill
1	GTDon2	Platinum	Pro
2	ZAR Eries	Pro	Platinum
3	RIOT ChevyPower	Platinum	Platinum
4	RD Jonathon	Gold	Gold
5	xNoRacialx	Gold	Gold
6	PhoenixRise1700	Gold	Gold
7	NaughtyDawgz	Gold	Gold
8	fabiomqs	Gold	Gold
9	ITS Wi11iE	Gold	Gold
10	EarnedCarrot925	Silver	Silver
11	the mexirican 16	Gold	Silver
12	Racer18 V8G	Silver	Silver
13	FRB Incognito	Copper	Silver
14	TRIDENT9069	Silver	Silver
15	GoSox2000	Gold	Bronze
16	AAR OneShot	Silver	Silver
17	Papa creech172	Bronze	Bronze
18	Co0l 5tory Br0	Gold	Gold

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