Round 5 - Kansai East [July 29th]

Présent !

Present!

Should be there

Plan to be there!

I should be around

Racing

its going to be tight for me on sunday. in the process of buying a house, and final inspection takes priority if all goes well, i should make it back on time for the whole event. worst case, i should be able to make race 2. if the field is full and someone needs a car (doubt that will be the case) then certainly let them have mine, else, i will do my best to make it.

dave

Results are up.

Thanks to all the took part in our first championship. We hope we can see you racing here again in the near future.

Well done again to Austin, ISO's first champion!

Je n'ai malheureusement pas pu participer à beaucoup de courses , mais j'y ai pris un grand plaisir , la deuxième manche est inoubliable, la grille inversée sur ce circuit où il est très difficile de doubler, c'était chaud, très chaud !

Bravo à Austin, merci à Richard...et à vous tous !

I'm always happy to help as you know Richard, but you're welcome

As for my event, had a good Race1 going but I just couldn't find my way past Yves. I was waiting for the tires to wear but saw that Steve got free of the cars behind to decided that it was my time to try and make my way to the podium.
Sadly, once Yves made the misstake I needed, I read it wrong, got held up and Steve got up my inside going to T3. I tried to leave room but I suspect I wasn't able to leave enough room, got nudged in the left rear and the car swapped ends on me when the rear right got onto the dirt.
Thankfully could get going with a big gap behind so just drove to survive with flat spotted tires to finish R1 in 5th place.


Race 2 started and I was half asleep. I was able to hold off Yves though who were looking around my outside by nudging my team-mate David forward going through T2.

For a few laps it was a processional until Yves, Richard and Austin felt that it was time to get a move on. Was nudged here and there, had a close call when Yves tried for a gap that wasn't quite there but was able to hold it thanks for the FWD nature of these Copa cars.

After another couple of laps me and David was finally able to make out way past Jason and Adam and we were now behind David who were very slow compared to us, and as he said, eating his tires at a crazy rate.

I tried to let David to the work and he had it for a moment but then got passed into T1 and next lap he tried again and ran wide so I took my opportunity and ran around his outside going through T3, some close but very fair racing from the both of us, despite me giving him a few nudges here and there when the train was checking up more than anticipated.

After having gotten by David it took me another couple of laps I think before I was able to get up the inside of David Sabre coming out of T2 with my better tires, was able to hold my position going around the outside of T3 for an inside run through T4 and then went around the outside of T5 and were just able to keep the overlap, sadly David I think understeered so we made contact but as I was there rightfully I decided to take the position and run with it.

Was able to gap the field as David continued to try to hold on to a Podium finish so I could go for a consistent run to the remaining 7-8 laps until the end and take my 2nd win of the season to just about snatch 2nd in the championship ahead of David, didn't think I'd be in with a shot at it but it worked out.

It was some really close racing in R2, some bumper-car-like action at times, but from my position it was all really good fun, maybe because I'm just to doorhandle to doorhandle racing, literally, from RL hehe.

Thanks everyone for taking part in the championship and I hope you all had good fun doing so!

Will try to put a small highlights, or just a simple onboard, of the 2nd Race from my point of view, we'll see what time allows