Firstly can I say what a blast that was last night.
Whilst I am more a road racer (and not necessarily the quickest guy on 4 wheels) I am more than willing to participate in oval racing. For me, last nights session was a 90 lap learning curve. I've run the Legends at Boston, Lanier etc. but not had much experience of the bigger cars on the bigger ovals, only in brief offline test sessions. Did try the RD Indy 500 earlier this year, but ended up qutting out after 20 odd laps as it was just one caution after another and we just never got racing. Last night however was a different story.
Was a little late in to practice session and only had 20 mins or so to find some pace. Was struggling to get under 32.*** so nipped out and found a setup from the forums. Made a complete hash of my 2 quali laps, with a Ken Block style drift during lap 1 and then a heavy contact with the wall on lap 2. Hey-ho, start at the back of a 12 car field not the end of the world. From the start ket James and Marcin bye and then just set about trying to find a groove and see whatsort of pace I could run.
After the few early cautions we then had a good number of laps under green and I was finding that whilst running alone I was getting in the mid/high 31.***'s. I then managed to tag on to the back of Onno, who was in turn trying to chase down Kev and had a real blast running in close proximity to his car, whilst never getting too ragged. managed to pass him underneath through a turn but then I ran wide a few turns later and he returned the compliment. Continued to run behind him until he and Kev had a sloghjt coming together and I watched them skate across the on-field like a formation display team, lol.
All in all, it was an absolute blast and experiencing the NTM on the Silverado made it feel like a different beast to what I have driven on occasion in the past with the OTM. Some foljks are whining big-style about the NTM on certain cars, but I honestly cannot see the major issues especially where the Silverado is concerned. Maybe that's just me being a total novice where the technical aspect of cars is concerned.
RD once again proves what a great place it is to compete on track with fellow iRacers.
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