I had my very first race on iRacing today, driving the MX-5 at Summit Point Raceway. I practiced about 1,5 weeks, mostly at that track, so I don't loose control in the first corner and make up a big mess. I ran two qualifying sessions this week, running a high 1:26ish time mostly without any incidents. To my surprise, I started in 3rd position, didn't expect that. The start - well I kind of missed it as the lights went green all of a sudden, I was waiting for some kind of countdown. Lost a position or two there, not a good start. The first couple corners went quite well, keeping up with the others was doable. In T5 I saw the first guy crash right in front of me, loosing control over his car in T4 ending in the tire wall. Let's try to not replicate that, I thought. In T9 I got a little to much oversteer so I had to brake a little, too bad that guy behind me was too close and/or couldn't react fast enough, so he crashed me, resulting in both sliding of the track. What a bummer, luckily our cars weren't damaged too much, so both of us could continue racing. My car wasn't going perfectly straight anymore, so I lost some tenth over a lap, but the rest of the race went pretty okayish, ran of track two or three times and lost another two positions, but I could end the race without any other bigger incidents in the 6th place with an increase of my safety rating.
Next time, be a little more consistent, and avoid unnecessary incidents. The race was a lot of fun, hopefully it'll be even more fun next time!
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Only been up 3hrs and already I need another shower!
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