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This is the second race of the week at Imola. Doing the Thrustmaster Trophy in the FF1600 in the rain. ...Very heavy rain. Designed my own custom livery. Blue, like my IRL Miata, with a purple gradient. Then added logos for some IRL shops- Zoom Performance in Grand Prairie who does lots of the performance work on my Miata and MazdaSpeed 3, Lane's Automotive in Euless who works on daily driver stuff, Fab9 Tuning who is doing the Miata EcuTek tuning. Let me know in the comments what you think. It's my first attempt at a Trading Paints iRacing livery. Started in P3, worked up to P2, then overshot a turn and got stuck in the wet gravel pit. Dropped to P9 and eventually worked my way back to a P5 finish. I had fun. Hope y'all enjoy, see ya next week. Don't forget to like and subscribe The first race from this week: https://rumble.com/v4vf4j6-hwy929-iracing-ff1600-thrustmaster-trophy-at-imola-20240514.html

Week 10 of Season 2 in the iRacing Thrustmaster Trophy series in the FF1600 car at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari track, better known as Imola, Italy. I'm very familiar with this track having raced it in various series over the years and with different changes and off-tracks. Qualifying was ok. First lap was invalidated for a off track. But my second lap was ok. Started in P9 and through attrition I ended up with a P6. Nice +69 to my iRating. But 10 incidents lowered my safety rating by 0.08, insignificant. Most incidents where just pushing the front off the soaking wet track. Although I did hit a curb on the first lap to launch me into the air. Luckily nothing broke. Hope y'all enjoy, leave some feedback, follow the channel. See ya next week.

World War Z game playthrough of Episode 8 in Phoenix, Chapter 1 - The Low Road with wife and a couple of bots

World War Z game playthrough with wife and 2 bots

Week 9 of Season 2 in the iRacing Thrustmaster Trophy series in the FF1600 car at Snetterton, England. In the rain. First time at this track. Only had about an hour to learn and practice it. Yet I still managed to have a good qualifier. Started P4. Survived the first lap. Crowded someone off track when a car braked harder than expected. A few off-road and curbs but only 3 incidents. Yay! increased iRating along with Safety rating. The rain races are forcing me to learn alternate lines and to take things easier. Had a decent race with another car and he finished seconds ahead of me. I ended up with P6, down from P4 but I'm not complaining. Had a fun race.

Week 8 of Season 2 in the iRacing Thrustmaster Trophy series in the FF1600 car at Sandown Australia. In the rain of course. lol Got a decent start, then was cut off and bumped into during the first couple laps. Still managed to gain one position from P7 to P6 which helped my iRating. But the 10 incidents, including one of my own fault, dropped my safety rating a bit. Not a bad race. It went better than I expected. From practice earlier in the week I thought it would be total carnage. Hope you enjoy and see you next week. Practice Video: https://rumble.com/v4sc7s2-slip-sliding-away...iracing-practice-sandown-ff1600-in-the-rain-2024s02w08.html

Game playthrough. Wife and me playing WWZ with a couple of bots

Game play through. Wife and me playing WWZ with a couple bots.

Chapter playthrough. Me and the wife playing WWZ with a couple bots.

#iRacing Another week of FF1600 Thrustmaster Trophy...another week racing in the rain. Didn't qualify due to invalid laps. P16 start. And like a dipshit, I forget to put the car in gear and end up dead last off the line. lol Worked my way thru the field and finished P9. Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1636132 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@hwy929:3

Just bought the Sandown trac and tried a couple laps. With the FF1600, it is in the rain of course. Slip Sliding away is the best way I can put it. Beautifully modelled track and rain graphics but I'm wondering if it's even drivable. Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1636132 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@hwy929:3

@iRacing FF1600 at Oscherleben Season 2, Week 06 In the rain,of course. Managed to get 8th after starting 13th. Mostly got lucky and finished ahead of all the folks with DQs. Barely made it under the 17 incident limit with 14 total. Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1636132 Odysee: https://odysee.com/@hwy929:3

I should have know it was going to be bad. I spun both laps during qualifying, putting me at P13 for the start. Disaster at the Cork Screw on lap 1. I thought I was going to, and almost did, avoid the pileups. First repair was free and quick and I got up to 10th place. But then the red sausage curbs struck a few laps later. With a damaged suspension, I couldn't brake and went off road in the next turn. This time the repairs were going to take 8 minutes so that ended my race. Short 10 minute video. I cut out some boring laps and added a bonus carnage clip at the end. Enjoy.

Qualified p4 and bounced around that area with good close racing. Was hoping the 2 folks battling in front of me would take each other out. Well one does spin but he doesn't lock up the brakes and re-enters unsafe and takes me out. Drivetrain broke so I had to take the 2+ minute tow to the pits for the quick repair. Ended up in P9 and lost some ratings. Still a fun race on a really fun layout. Entertaining action in front of me. Probably not safe for work since some fucks were given. ;-) Please consider subscribing. With 20 subscribers I can get a custom URL instead of the numeric code. Thanks.

Bottom split race with 800 SoF. I qualified P4, got up to P1 after surviving the usual Skippy first lap carnage. Then me and another racer were pretty much within half a second of each other for the rest of the race. They seemed to brake better than me in some turns and they eventually passed. I was on their tail the rest of the race but could not pass and ended up in P2. Overall a fun race, one of the closest races I've ever had. Sound cuts out in a couple of places, dunno. Race is only 38 minutes. Accidentally had a clip at the end of my timeline so there is lots of black video after the race.

Actually Defense only got second today but that's still a win in my book First race of the new season. Whoohoo. Qualified P5, bounced around a bit and got bumped up to 2nd after some people went offroad and handed out free positions. No shot at P1 but had a good battle trying to keep my spotand fending off P3. Concentration levels had me fairly quiet but I added commentary when I spliced in the mixed TV footage. Hope you enjoy. Definitely continuing with the Skippies but have been practicing with a few other open wheel cars like the Formula Renault 2.0. Keep your eyes peeled and subscribed to see if/when I got for that. ... or another open wheeler.

Last week in season 3 of Skip Barber. Long Beach is always a fun track. I managed to stay off the walls...mostly. I touched them a few times and had some sparks fly but never got any incidents and the car seemed to run undamaged. Went from P5 to P6, had some good close racing with a few other cars. The walls had me concentrating quite a bit so there wasn't much talking on this one.

Partial, not full race video. Missed qualifying due to sound card issues. Started at the back of the field. Survived the first lap, then collided, flipped, went airborne in turn 1. My mistake for not seeing the crash in the turn causing cars in front of me to slow down and I was still at race pace. Another spin near the end of the race while battling 2 other cars ended the chance of any points redemption. Started P17 and ended up P15. This is the GP track, not the 14mile version. Pretty fun track.

The Skip Barber Series takes us to Austria and the Red Bull Ring for week 7 in season 3 for 2021. Race Start: 5:45 Decent race. Qualified P5. Had some close, nervous battles early on. Got up to P2 and then spun, falling back to P5 at the end. New PC is working great along with the new McLaren GT3 wheel. (Video ends 32:00, last half is black video)

Got the new PC built, time to go race... Qualified P5, Spin in 1st turn drops me to P16, then a charge all the way to P1. Good last lap battle with several lead changes and a 1 second off-track penalty with half a lap to go.

This week the Skip Barber Series takes us to Donington Park in England for the next to last race in the season. I had missed the last few weeks due to the freezing storms in Texas and being without internet. I was so ready to get back into iRacing but... The PC crashed during qualifying and I missed the grid and had to start from the pits. Still made my way to P13. Trying to rush the start and get going had the adrenaline going. I wasn't sure what was running when the PC came back up. I just didn't wan't to lose the ~80 rating points if I simply withdrew. P13 only lost me 25 points. I can handle that. Lesson learned: Be careful after getting updates for Nvidia, SteamVR, RaceLabApps, and Windows all at the same time

This week the Skip Barber series visits Autódromo José Carlos Pace, better known as Interlagos. Named after Brazilian F1 driver Calos Pace. Had a very fun race. The racing was often close and tight, surprising for such a large, wide track. I started in P6, dropped to P11, then worked my way back to P6. I avoided most carnage, except for one corner where I hit someones rear tire and made us spin. (Sorry!) Ran mostly mid 1:53s with a couple laps dropping in the 52s. Earlier in the week during practice I ran consistent mid 52 with a fast lap of 1:52.097. Not sure what happened to my pace. Maybe being too cautious? The long straights after tight 1st gear turns requires one to sacrifice braking and corner entry for corner exit speed. If you messed up on the exit, you can just see your split times dropping for every second you are on the straight. Hope y'all enjoy. Please subscribe. I'm trying to reserve the channel name on rumble which requires 20 subscribers. Thanks!

Short video of me getting frustrated with netcode issues...The blinking cars. The guy in front of me was gone for almost half the lap. I tried a couple races this evening. For some reason my qualification didn't register and I started at the back of the pack in P18. Worked my way through carnage and dealt with blinking cars to get to P5 only to get taken out. Hope to get a better full race video with some action in the next couple of days

Hey Folks, this week the Skip Barber series moves to Charlotte North Carolina to run the Roval track. Pole position wiping out on the first lap resulted in close racing with several lead swaps and a dicey last lap. I qualified P2 and squeaked by on the last lap for the win. The TV view insert box didn't get the car liveries loaded for all the cars. the orange ELF in the overview is the gulf car that I'm racing against. If you like the content, please help me get up to 20 subscribers so that I can reserve a custom url on rumble, thanks.

Whoohoo! It's been a few months since I've had a first place finish. This is the second race at Suzuka this week. I moved from P5 to P1 in the fist lap and then managed to hang on for the win. Not the most exiting race to watch since I'm out front and didn't engage anyone. But it's P1 so the video is getting published. Thanks go out to all the racers that try to win the race on the first lap, I couldn't have done it without y'all. lol If you like the content, please help me get up to 20 subscribers so that I can reserve a custom url on rumble, thanks.