TAGELE Sprint - Race reports, chat etc.

[Ricknau]

R1 Joined late as I have family home for holiday. Had done enough practice laps to get comfortable in the Camaro. (My 3rd chasssis for season.) Ran a few laps in the warmup which I thought was the qualy. Seeing daylight I thought "hmmm... I thought this was supposed to be a night race!" Got dropped on the back of the grid and saw nighttime. Thought "OK... there's the dark!" Then at about 2 secs to green I got teleported into my garage! Whaa?! DQ! I suppose because I hadn't turned my headlights on. Arrrgh! Oh well.

R2 Was placed at P1 on the grid. This should not be and I didn't want to fight the inevitable so I slowed on the back "straight" to let a bunch of cars pass. Then fell into a race with Seb. He was definitely faster and got by me when I bobbled somewhere. Then we flip-flopped positions several times as we exchanged bobbles. He bobbled last which gave me enough gap to bring it home at P6.

Edit:
Oh yeah, sorry for last minute quizzing about fuel load. In the few last-minute laps I did offline my fuel consumption was showing 1.4 gal per lap. Didn't check when running online. The tank won't hold a race load at 1.4gal/lap. Scratched my head a bit and hence the quiz. Ends up my offline fuel rate was still set for Indy practice condition of double fuel rate. So I ran this race with about 10 extra gallons of fuel.