The GT Porsche of Sainted grabbed the pole at Ladera for Race 1 but couldn't hold off the Cadillac of Moe and Nissan GTR of PiiHB who took first and second.  PiiHB's Hawk Nissan GT-R nabbed the pole for Race 2 as well but when he was battling for the lead with Moe they made contact going into the final corner allowing Sainted's 911 GT3 to slip past followed by Manuel in his K-Pax McLaren 12C GT3 and Roscoe's Cadillac CTS-V.  Patience rewarded the top 3 in Race 2 and the pure handling track looked to favor the handling cars but thanks to the amazing work done by the steward and his competition directors we saw every car battling for the win on this tight track. Missing this week was Bulin's Volvo, he has vowed to return to battle for wins and give all these drivers some stiff competion.

   In GTS Mitsubishi came out on top in Race 1, with JP winning race one and Blakey taking second after Wolfpack's Blackdog Speed Shop Camaro spun on lap one.  The Lancer's also took double podiums in Race 2 to finish out a strong weekend for Mitsubishi.   Wolfpack rallied with an amazing comeback to finish fourth in Race 1 and then in Race 2 he continued where he started Race 1 by starting on pole and winning the race.  Compass 360's DirtyDawg and Realtime's Oddball both showed great speed this weekend .  Sounds like Ladera was a tough track for some GTS cars with Simcik Racing and the Blackdog Speed Shop Camaro of Veteran being unable to finish Race 1 and proving catastrophic for Simcik because it is a private team and they are unsure if they will have the engine from SRT ready in time for Sebring.  

   Monday will be all about speed, speed, speed at Sebring and will benefit some of the drivers that have felt their power was unable to shine last week at Ladera.  The GT field is so close right now so the drivers and teams will have to work extra hard to get on the podium, while the GTS group should see quite a few drivers moving up after poor showings early on.  Squid will be making a permanent move to the Atlantic Autosport/Arrington Performance SRT Challenger 392R and, along with Roush Racing's Stalker, plan to ramp up their effort this weekend to catch up to the field.


NSA SEBRING GRAND PRIX

DATE:	Monday, May 19th
LOCATION:	Sebring Full
DURATION:	(2) Sprint Races 11-Laps
ROUND:	GT/GTS - Rounds 5 & 6
TIME:	8:00PM EDT / 5PM PST / 12AM GMT

Race Weekend Schedule:
*Practice Session - Friday 16th / 8:00pm EDT (GT/GTS) (TC/TCB)
*Practice Session - Saturday 17th / TBD (GT/GTS) (TC/TCB)
*Drivers Meeting - Monday 19th / 7:55pm EDT (Mandatory GT/GTS)
*Qualifying - Monday 19th / 8:15pm EDT (GT/GTS) 10-Min Session
*Race 1 - Monday 19th / 8:30pm EDT (GT/GTS) 28-Laps
*Race 2 - Monday 19th / 9:00pm EDT (GT/GTS) 28-Laps

(If less than 16 drivers are available to race, the classes will run together)
(Drivers not making the qualifying session, will start race 1 at the back of the grid)


Racing Note: Sebring is a high speed course with some tight low speed and high speed technical sections.   Some drivers may need to be extra cautious in these technical back and forth "esses" to limit potential roll overs on the inside curbing. 
 
Schedule Note: Schedule of practice sessions may alter if scheduling proves problematic for majority of the drivers.

Anyone have some photos of the lovely Pirelli Grid Girls?

You know roscoe does.

any hints on GTS times?

low 18s to mid 19s so far... Most will be in the upper 18s to low 19s I bet.   Wheres the RealTime Racing group at?

20.5 is my best so far...

Anybody going to be able to do practice tomorrow the 17th?   Comcast died on me tonight and I missed the practice time.   Gave me time to tinker with some electrical bugs on the 392R the plagued me the last couple weeks.  The HEMI is loving life here in Sebring so far.

Squid u gonna be on in a bit

Damn, wish I wasn't missing this race...

I might be able to get some,laps n tonight. I was spending some time with my girl and my baby last night. The gtr feels good here though. I will say that. Though she is starving for power now. (I'm in the 300s now)

im confused, the other night it was doing 19.5s and now im in my lobby with the correct settings and its doing 11s...

Sounds like your handicap is not right. That's faster than gt cars.

its at -15%, and the tc car is doing 19s which I know is not right

Strange. You're in the bucket but make sure the settings are actually at-15. Other than that I have no clue.

Tc is sebring short GT is full

ROSCOEpCOTRAIN wrote:

Tc is sebring short  GT is full

Actually TC/TCB is at Sebring Club.






I'm stuck at 2:13 flat as best.

That's about average for me. I think a 12.89 is my best.

Yea there is no way with the updated Camaro build that you drop down to fastest GT times in a GTS car.   You need to be in Sebring Full for GT/GTS and not the short tracks and make sure your buckets are set properly.  Look at the telemetry and see your on track HP and make sure its right around the 400 range.

Yesterday I was running low 21's to high 20's. I think I can get a little more out of it though.

This is definitely a track where the high grip cars will lose out a bit to the HP cars.   But then we head back to a shorter track so it will be getting tighter and tighter as the season goes on.

I'll be on for a while tonight if anyone wants to get some GT/GTS or TC/TCB practice in.

Hit me up if Im online and Ill switch over.  Im stabbing dragons in the face right now.

Hit on some stuff tonight with the SPY Optic/dirty mo radio camaro. Should be about where it needs to be by tomorrow night. That challenger is going to be strong tomorrow night for sure.

sssshhhhhhhhhhh......

I'm excited for this one, I should be on earlier because I have yet to tune my own car for Sebring.

I see ya in morning warm-ups then because I plan to be on around 3-4 pacific.

Morning, WTF is that?

Well ya see lil fella, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much they get really close and later on the mommy gets sick during the time of day we call morning.

I may not be making it tonight guys

i know it's late as fuck guys but i'm not going to make it, last minute a friend is coming to stay from the states so last minute i have to be up at 5. have fun and good luck everyone

So the field wrecks behind me and Moe takes off. I do my best to stay near him and fall back by over 1000ft. And on lap 10 he lags out.

fairly happy with finishing 2nd in both races. Had to put over 100 laps into tuning and picked it up to where I could hang with squid. Good job to stalker and squid on there wins tonight, it was a dog fight for sure!

I aint dealing with this garbage man. People going ot chop block when they youre well on their inside, or get sideways and cut across the track to block you, nah. I dont wanna race with dirty drivers man not cool.

Wow there was some story lines coming from Florida tonight.  Alot of hard racing and I let the sweep slip away but was a blast fighting with Pablo's Maserati, Wolfpack's Camaro Z/28.R, and Stalkers Boss 302R!  GTS was a tight battle of the muscle cars this week.  Its going to be a daunting task to keep it going again next week in GTS at Leguna with the AWD getting back to a short track.   Congrats to the top qualifiers and race winners this week.  Bummer for Moe dropping out.

my viper did not do so well it suck

Some close racing last night. I want to start by congratulating our winners, so congrats guys. Great run in race 2 arguello (r gway yo) for our English speakers. I would also like to apologize to the half of the gt field I ended up causing damage last night. That is what happens when you don't practice for a race and it will not happen again. I beat myself last night. Race 2 was a disaster for me. Drove right past Moe entering the hairpin and almost ended up taking" roca way". I am not satisfied with my performance at all from last night. Next week will be a different story. Time to bring the a game.

It was a tough Monday night for the Mitsubishi team. The restriction plates installed to slow the cars down where too much to overcome and both cars gave a very poor showing. I'd like to apologize to my fan, and follows and also my sponsors that tell me they still have good faith in me.

I will come back with vengeance next week. Cars have been flown in and I will be arriving at later today to have a walk around and test laps will start. I will be putting in serious time to make up for an embarrassing turn out last night.

#BewareOfTheEvilEvos

SaintedPlacebo4 wrote:

I aint dealing with this garbage man. People going ot chop block when they youre well on their inside, or get sideways and cut across the track to block you, nah. I dont wanna race with dirty drivers man not cool.

ahhhhh you want some french cries? Need us to call the wanhmbulance?

Missed an opportunity to make up a few points with my box freezing. Oh well on to laguna see if I can stay on the podium

Dr PiiHB wrote:

Some close racing last night.

Race 1 was crazy, over 7 cars bumper to bumper almost over half of the race. I made a pass from 7th to 3rd and then with a little wide turn I went back to 7th.

I liked how we raced there, hard but clean. Just some bumps.

Dr PiiHB wrote:

I would also like to apologize to the half of the gt field I ended up causing damage last night.

Well, if we want to have a close balanced field of cars, close racing is the name of the game, and with this the bumps shows up and damage with it.

I totally understand that sometimes cars dont brake well because of draft, forza phisics or just a mistake, but please avoid to hit the #76, aim to the #45 if you want to hit a Mc laren please! LOL.

In general, steward have to review the replay and make some atention calls, but as i said, if we are going to be as close as we are right now, this is going to happen every race, so lets find a way to avoid damage.



Besides that, this is a great series!


  

Following last night's series of races Porsche gave me a call. "Well if these team drivers are going to give you the ol' one two, than we need to get you your own two piece in there." Fellow Porsche factory driver BigDutyD will be joining me creating a completely factory backed race team. Drake's back.   

I want to again thank spy optics for coming back on the car. They've run on my cars for nearly two years and its always good to give them a good showing. Head on over to SpyOptic.com and type in promocode "daleyeah" to get 20% off any dale jr signature sunglasses. (Got myself a pair of dirty mos and they are great)

gutted i couldnt make this one, needed to haul in whatever points i could...

@manuel... Bad brakes... Your in a McLaren... Im in a Caddy and you needed to end my chances in order to stop... Smh

SaintedPlacebo4 wrote:

I aint dealing with this garbage man. People going ot chop block when they youre well on their inside, or get sideways and cut across the track to block you, nah. I dont wanna race with dirty drivers man not cool.

So are you in or out?  Shall we assume this is an emotional outburst that you wish to retract?   We all get frustrated after being in a close battle and it doesnt go our way but the smart thing to do is wait, cool down and not make statements that will undoubtedly raise an eyebrow by everyone.

Also here is Race 1 and 2 results.   Sorry about the blur, need to turn off the auto flash next time.

RACE 1:


RACE 2:

ROSCOEpCOTRAIN wrote:

@manuel... Bad brakes... Your in a McLaren... Im in a Caddy and you needed to end my chances in order to stop... Smh

His brakes worked fine, it was the gtr brakes that were the trouble. Y'all slowed down perfectly. I locked up one of my front tires and hulk smashed the back of the McLaren that then demolished your caddy. Manuel was not at fault there it was all me. Sorry again guys. It was a rough night for the Hawk Racing Nissan team.

Thanks for owning it Piihb!   Always appreciate those that will admit fault even if it was not 100% on you.  I havent seen the replay so I wont assume anything.  Mistakes happen and it goes a long, long way when you let the drivers know you were not intentionally hitting someone but still feel guilty nonetheless.   I hate making contact because I screwed up so I know how ya feel.  Im sure Manuel and Roscoe will never forgive you.  JK haha, Im rooting for ya to get back to your clean ways in Laguna.