As we headed over to the land of the rising sun we noticed that as soon as practice started that beautiful sun was setting!  It sure made for an interesting and ever-changing track with having to adjust to the lower visibility.  Okayama does not have lights installed around the track so it was crucial to get your braking points down before the light of day was completely gone!

Big thanks to the E-Sport Racer guys for joining us on track again throughout this championship series.  They did a great job and we appreciate the advice and guidance for the series.  Check them out on Facebook and at their homepage for great coverage of the events they compete in.  

Their man from Canada took P1 in qualifying and Peake also won the race with a great execution in fuel saving and pace.  Check out the rest of the results, pictures and video coverage from this round to see how the E-Sport Racer and Fritosport Teams did here tonight!

ALL TIMES ARE PACIFIC STANDARD TIME!!!

* Saturday May 9th - Dirt Midget Heat Racing at Lanier
* Sunday May 10th - Pro2,Pro4, and Pro Lite trucks Heat Racing at Wild Horse Pass

* Monday May 11th - 5pm Fritosport Free Content Series - MX5 at Okayama
* Final Fritosport rounds in JUNE!!!!  Monday's 6/1 and 6/22 5pm MX5's

cWell, we may be a bit crazy we thought, AND IT WAS CONFIRMED TONIGHT!!!

The Fritosport Free Content MX5 Series visited Daytona Oval - The ol' lumpy bumpy Legacy version tonight with our MX5's and there were some "interesting" moments to say the least!  We just want to take the time to say a BIG THANKS to our regular drivers that show up to race with us.  With 3 rounds left, we will begin taking suggestions and hoping to return with an improved Free Content Series once this one wraps up.

However, We want to congratulate Kyle Schuett for taking P1 in the 4th round with a close P2 going to Mike Key and P3 to Greg Brockway!  

Let's take a look at some screenshots, TV Replay and the Race Results... Plus let's not forget about the POINTS after 4 Rounds of MX5 door-to-door and wheel-to-wheel good times!

​*Points may change as incident reports come in during the following days...

QUALIFYING RESULTS - P1 receives 1 bonus point

Round 4 RACE RESULTS - Top 15 receive points

Gallery - Rd 4 Daytona Oval

TV CAM REPLAY!!!

​DAYTONA OVAL RD 4 Points:

• Kyle Schuett = 15pts (-2pts for avoidable contact with Greg Mac) 13pts
• Michael Key = 14pts
• Greg Brockway = 13pts
• Lucas McCoy = 12 (-2pts avoidable contact with Peake) 10pts
• Mitchell Peake = 11 + P1 Qualifier 12pts
• Lucas Pejakovich2 = 10pts
• Indalecio Camacho = 9pts
• Thomas Clark8 = 8pts
• Dominick Abbatiello = 7pts (-2pts avoidable contact with Peake) 5pts
• Edgar Sanchinelli = 6pts
• Brennan Houran = 5pts
• James Wilson24 (DQ) (caused incident during restart)
• Bryan Ferguson3 = 4pts
• Sergio Vicentini2 = 3pts
• Jeremy Beheler = 2pts ( -2 pts causing first wreck of the night)
• Greg Mac = 1pts

***CLASS C LICENSE WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL FUTURE EVENTS

See you all at Rd 5 - Okayama on May 11th!

Join us at Rd 4 Daytona Oval battles with the Global Mazda MX5 Cup car!!!

This is the 1st oval round of 2 in our free content series, 4 more races to go til we crown a champion!

​good luck and see ya'll there!

BRANDS HATCH INDY Tonight at 5PM PST - Audi TCR RS3 LMS - Hosted session Fritosport

​

Session name:FRITOSPORT - Spec Racer Ford
Private:No
Server:US-Bos
Heat Racing Event:
Track:[Legacy] Silverstone Circuit - 2008
Configuration:National
Time Of Day:2020-05-15 07:34 1x
Car Class:Hosted All Cars Class
Car:SCCA Spec Racer Ford
Max Fuel Fill %:50
Weight Penalty KG:0
Weight Penalty LBS:0
Power Adjust %:0.0
Fixed Setup:No
Paint Cars:Yes
Maximum racers:60
Tournament:No
Dynamic Sky:Yes
Weather:Realistic
Practice length:60 minutes
Qualifier length:15 minutes
Race length:45 minutes
Starting type:Standing start
Num fast repairs:1
Cautions:Admin only
Count caution laps:Yes
Lucky dog:On
Wave arounds:Yes
Restart type:Single file, Lapped keep position
Consec. caut. single:No
Green/White/Check:Disabled
Hardcore level:Disallow all driving aids (but clutch assist OK)
Car damage:On
Restrict results:No
Warn incident limit:No limit
DQ incident limit:No limit
Qual scrutiny:Off
Auto-Clean Marbles:Yes
Practice:Automatically Generated
Qualify:Carried over
Race:Carried over

The car is available as free content on iRacing!

Come out with the Fritosport Racing Team and have a good time!

PRACTICE = 60min -- Qualifying = 15min -- Race = 45min

RACE will be streamed via E. Sanchinelli's On-board FOLLOWED by the TV Cam Replay at 
- youtube.com/fritosport
- twitch.tv/fritosport
- mixer.com/LightningGuat

​Session name:FRITOSPORT - Indy 2011 at Daytona Road
Private:No
Server:US-Bos
Heat Racing Event:
Track:Daytona International Speedway
Configuration:Road Course
Time Of Day:2020-05-15 12:00 1x
Car Class:Hosted All Cars Class
Car:[Legacy] Indycar Dallara - 2009
Max Fuel Fill %:50
Weight Penalty KG:0
Weight Penalty LBS:0
Power Adjust %:0.0
Fixed Setup:No
Paint Cars:Yes
Maximum racers:60
Tournament:No
Dynamic Sky:Yes
Weather:Realistic
Practice length:60 minutes
Qualifier length:15 minutes
Race length:45 minutes
Starting type:Rolling start
Num fast repairs:1
Cautions:Admin only
Count caution laps:Yes
Lucky dog:On
Wave arounds:Yes
Restart type:Single file, Lapped keep position
Consec. caut. single:No
Green/White/Check:Disabled
Hardcore level:Disallow all driving aids (but clutch assist OK)
Car damage:On
Restrict results:No
Warn incident limit:No limit
DQ incident limit:No limit
Qual scrutiny:Off
Auto-Clean Marbles:Yes
Practice:Automatically Generated
Qualify:Carried over
Race:Carried over

Velocity Racing Development International iRacing League

5 Questions with Expert Club Winner - Evan Wood

1. First of all, congratulations on your huge accomplishment. How did you attack this long
competition and what kind of mindset do you have to have going into it?

Once I saw the championship would be 12 events in the group b cars I went to work on driving
the Lancia on my weakest locations first and my best locations last. This car class is very easy to
lose control and wanted to make sure i knew the feeling of the car very well under all conditions
being rain fog night etc. Honestly your mindset has to be selfish and aggressive

2. While we don't want you to give away your secrets, what do you look at in general/basic
terms when arriving at New locations with the car you drove?

​Well keeping the cars pace fairly equal for each loop. So adjusting the setup to keep tire wear
minimal and the pace high is a tricky endeavor.

3. As the season got under way, how did you spot the talent you knew would be a threat
through the whole season?

This was alot easier to determine from the World Series qualifiers and just doing dailys, weeklys
and monthly challenges. Still by checking the club sites and analyzing the times you can also see
other drivers strengths and weaknesses.

4. What is next for an Expert Club winner like yourself? You've obviously set high standards
and have met them, do you plan to focus on defending this Dirt2.0 title?
​
Well staying active and competing in the Crest, AOR, and soon WERC championships will help to
maintain pace with elite drivers. I guess it depends on if the Expert championship does another
long season. If they release another 12 event championship with a car class other than fwd
theres a great chance you'll see me in the service area.

5. Anyone you'd like to thank after such an amazing run in not only Expert Club, but also
Crest, RBR Pro, and your Mazda ST Open debut season?

Honestly theres too many people to thank. I first wanna thank you Edgar for forming this
wonderful team across all forms of motorsports and simulator titles. I wanna thank Tom for
reaching out to recruit me to the rally team. I gotta thank all team members.

​-Nathan
-Paul
-Alex
-Ricky
-Georg
-Torbjorn
-Mike
-Lyndal
-Kev
-Hugo

​All of you whether you know or not helped me with the confidence and motivation to push
myself farther. I hope I can return the favor!

Here are the updated overall points after 3 rounds.

Next round sees us going to our first OVAL round of the series... Daytona!!!

POINTS AFTER 3 ROUNDS:

1. Greg Mac = 41 points
   
2. Greg Brockway = 38 points
   
3. Lyndal McMurphy = 37 points
   
4. Edgar Sanchinelli = 37 points
   
5. Mike Key = 36 points
   
6. Brennan Houran = 27 points
   
7. Andreas Simons = 10 points
   
8. Evan Wood = 9 points
   
9. Jason Bosse = 9 points
   
10. William Karp = 9 points
    
11. Matt Schlosser = 8 points
    
12. Eddie Neubauer = 8 points
    
13. James Maniscalco = 7 points
    
14. Ralph Woodard = 7 points
    
15. Tanner Stillwell = 6 points
    
16. Peter Cernuzka = 6 points
    
17. Jeremy Rigney = 5 points
    
18. Julian Ignacio Longo = 5 points
    
19. Javier Tincani = 4 points
    
    

*Points are awarded to the top 15 that complete at least 1 lap in the race.  
*Bonus point award to top Qualifier
*Please message Edgar Sanchinelli on iRacing regarding incidents as they will be reviewed post-race and penalties will be applied.
*Points are 15 to P1, 14 to P2, and so on.

See you all at Daytona Oval!  Scroll down to see the remainder of the schedule :)

*First and foremost we apologize we did NOT have a Fast Repair enabled for this race...

Aside from that little issue, I must say that I'm very grateful for all of the drivers that attended this round.  We had ultra hot track temperatures when we started practice.  The race was a tough one with tires going away and a couple of incidents for the drivers.  We're very proud of everyone for keeping it fairly safe during the race bar some mishaps and drivers still learning the racing etiquette.

Big congratulations go out to Mr. Greg Mac!!!  Not only did he secure the bonus P1 Qualifier point, he also walks away with the win here at Summit Point.  

Brennan Houran did an excellent job managing those tires and staying cool under pressure and taking a P2 for their E-Sport Racer team (P1 & P2).  Mike Key redeemed himself after Charlotte Roval's round by taking the 3rd step on the podium!

Edgar Sanchinelli tried to pile on the pressure on Houran but when sending it in T1 made a catastrophic mistake and lost the grip/brakes and was met with a tire barrier that mangled the steering rack on his Globlal Mazda MX5 cup car.  This dropped Edgar to P5 behind one of the most improved drivers we've seen this season.  Rd2 winner Greg Brockway took a P4 here while keeping his car alive after an unfortunate tap from Lyndal McMurphy.  Lyndal had great pace but had to take some time in the pits getting the car squared up after a couple of incidents.  

here are the results from this race, Round 3 of the series...

First up we have Qualifying Results (P1 gets 1 bonus point) and following is the RACE result

HERE ARE POINTS FOR THIS ROUND, Next Blog post will include OVERALL series points.

1.  Greg Mac = 15points + 1 P1 Qualifier
2.  Brennan Houran = 14 points
3.  Michael Key = 13 points
4.  Greg Brockway = 12 points
5.  Edgar Sanchinelli = 11 points
6.  Andreas Simons = 10 points
7.  William Karp = 9 points
8.  Lyndal McMurphy = 8 points
9.  Ralph Woodard = 7 points
10. Peter Cernuzka = 6 points
11. Julian Ignacio Longo = 5 points
12. Javier Tincani = 4 points
*Other drivers did not complete 1 lap

We will add up series points and update those with race video and pictures in the next blog post

Livery by the champ Hugo Hernandez-Gutierrez!!!

Check for them in the HOSTED section of iRacing ***TIMES ARE PST***