all hail the algorithm

 

There was a huge response when signups opened for Rebellion League - IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge. I think there are over 80 drivers signed up now. With most of the drivers signing up for the GT division, I decided to move to the Touring Car division and run a Honda Civic. I show up for the test race at Daytona and was doing alright, just getting to know the car and remembering how to drive a FWD car fast. More drivers enter the server and when the grid got bigger than twenty my rFactor started to crash. On the third failure I decided to bin it. I remember last December I tried to race with a big grid and had an rFactor crash just as we had started the formation lap. It seems my vintage PC can't handle big grids. Anyway I have withdrawn my entry to this series.

corpse diamond

 Series Complete - SRO Hasta La Vista rFactor

full results here

Congrats to Fabio Lozio series champion. I finished 4th overall after a lackluster campaign. With two other series going on, there was just not enough time to prepare enough for the races. It was wrong to commit to three different series all happening around the same time. Sure it was fun to do those three races in three days extravaganza weekends, but the performance suffered. And now I am feeling burned out. I don't feel like I have enough energy to finish the other two series.

Anyway that is it, no more rFactor series planned over at SRO. Thanks to Ken Jagger and SRO for all the years of rFactor racing. 

siberian summer

 

I signed up for another series, this one with Rebellion League. It's the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, Multiclass racing with GTs and TCs on US Tracks. Gonna run a Porsche Cayman in the GT class for the LFR Team. With 3 different series already active I must be crazy to signup for a fourth. But this one won't start until after the SRO series has concluded, and with the current Racin Nexus series just two rounds to go. So I think there will be time enough to prepare for the races here. Plus, I have raced before on all of the tracks on the schedule and it will mostly be about optimizing the car.

I had been invited before (by Eitha Racing Team) to participate in Rebellion League, but I had to decline because of my commitment to Racin Nexus. I just lurked in the Rebellion Discord channel and saw that they had a great Season 2, with about 20-30 drivers per race. Multiclass racing with such a big grid... I couldn't say no this time when asked to join by LFR Team. I guess LFR were impressed by my performance in their GPE series.