FactorFlip Racing League Indycar Series
Round 1 - Texas Motor Speedway 125 laps
A wild and wacky race for the first 25 laps or so, with multiple incidents involving several drivers all over the track. This caused a few full course yellows that didn't help much because the automated pace car wasn't doing a good job. I ran as high as 3rd place early on in this chaos, but eventually I got tangled up and was even punted into a Herbie-style fence riding stunt.
In the confusion of it all, I got a couple of stop-and-go penalties for speeding in the pitlane and overtaking before the start/finish line during one of the restarts. I lost a lot of time and fell away from the leaders. By the time the race had settled down I was still in the top ten albeit a few laps behind.
At this point I could only trundle around, my damaged car's top speed had been reduced, and I didn't even have a good setup in the first place and was just running the default. I only learned this race was on less than 24 hours from the event start time. So, with the lack of preparation, unfamiliarity with the car and the track, and all the mayhem at the start, I was happy and relieved to be running at the checkered flag and finish the race in 8th place.
