GTC APAC Challenge Race 3 Monza GP (40 mins)

Asia Pacific Challenge:

http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/3346486.page

Race 3 Monza GP (40 minutes):

The first 40 minute race of the season, saw 22 people show for some close but fair racing at Monza. BAM had 3 people in the Mustang battle with Paul finishing the best of us in 3rd, Oliver 4th and Gary 5th. Bryan put in a great effort in the Jetta to finish 2nd.

Results: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=15394704&custid=158878

AWARDS:

CLASS AWARDS:

Mark Webber: Losing most positions from your starting position

Benn Callow (Mustang)
Russell Clark (Jetta)
Manel Segret (Solstice)

Takuma Sato: Gaining most positions from starting position

Keith Wheeler (Mustang)
Phillip Duckworth (Jetta)
Seiichi Kawada (Solstice)

Daniel Riccardo: Most positions finished ahead of number in class

Gary Fishwick (Mustang)
Phillip Duckworth (Jetta)
Craig M Hopkins (Solstice)

OVERALL AWARDS:

Pastor Maldonado: Highest incidents per corner
Benn Callow (7 incidents in 12 laps)

Scott Dixon: Lowest incidents per corner
Jake Moloney, Paul Rogers, Jay Duthie, Craig Hopkins, Brad Fenly, Seiichi Kawada, Thomas Strunk (0 incidents in 19 laps)

Will Power: Scoring negative points

Brad Haigh

GTC APAC Challenge Race 2 Watkins Classic

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Great race with some close battles throughout all classes.

Results: See 2nd post and here: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=15323552&custid=158878

[b]AWARDS:[/b]

CLASS AWARDS:

[b]Mark Webber: [/b] Losing most positions from your starting position

Anssi Vuori (Mustang)
N/A (Jetta)
Manuel Gomez Martinez2, Shaun King(Solstice)

[b]Takuma Sato:[/b] Gaining most positions from starting position

Keith Wheeler(Mustang)
N/A (Jetta)
Seiichi Kawada, Johannes Knaub (Solstice)

[b]Daniel Riccardo:[/b] Most positions finished ahead of number in class

Anssi Vuori (Mustang)
N/A (Jetta)
Sergio Peña (Solstice)

OVERALL AWARDS:

[b]Pastor Maldonado: [/b]Highest incidents per corner
Jonathan Beikoff (8 incidents in 6 laps)

[b]Scott Dixon:[/b] Lowest incidents per corner

Benn Callow, Keith Wheeler and Jack W Miller (0 incidents in 19 laps)

[b]Will Power:[/b] Scoring negative points

Manuel Gomez Martinez2, Shaun King and Jonathan Beikoff

2015 Season Review - Australian Endurance Championship

AEC is a multi-class team racing championship. During 2015, 8 rounds were schedule although 1 was cancelled due to scheduling issues.

Black Adder initially entered 3 cars in the GT3 class for the series and for the final 2 rounds a Daytona Prototype was added.

The series started at Daytona with an 8 hour night race. Due to drive unavailability, we reduced the entry to 2 cars. #67 was driven by Braith Morrow, Lewis Cugaly and John King. Lewis wasn't available for the 1st 3 hours of the race so the inital plan was for Braith to start but when we came to grid, we realised that because John had set a slightly fastest time in qualifying, he had to start the race. After 20 laps there was a caution period and John was one of the few GT3's to stop for fuel & tyres. When the race went green, John quickly moved back into the leading pack of GT3's and when another caution came out on lap 33, he was the only GT3 to stay out and because the lead protype stopped, John got a wave around the pace car and took the lead of the GT3 class. From that point, it was a case of running consistently and ensuring we covered all the other cars tactically. This worked perfectly and #66 came home comfortable winners of GT3 (and 6th overall!). #66 was driven by Jake Fox, Paul Rogers and Oliver Searles. They had some mishaps and finished 18th.

Round 2 was Bathurst and it turned into a disaster for the whole team. Things initially looked good, with John, in #67 again with Braith and Lewis and Christian Challiner, driving #66 with Jake, Oliver and Tommy Vandergucht running 1-3 in the GT3 class during the 2nd hour. But, a myriad of delays, crashes and damage for both cars dropped them way down the field. #66 eventually finished 18th and Braith somehow managed to drag a very beaten up #66 around for the last 2 hours, finishing 27th.

For Round 3 at Watkins Glen, 3 cars were entered and with strong pairings in both 366 and 367 (the number now reflected the class the car ran in), the team were confident of a good showing. Initially Braith in 367 and Tommy in 366 ran well and were in the led pack of GT3s. There was a caution on lap 27 and both cars pitted and did driver swaps. At the restart they was a huge crash and both cars were badly damaged. In the panic, the 367 car was pitted without having the new optional reset flag set and so had to wait 35 mins while the damage was repaired "normally".  #366 finished 28th and #367 33rd. Meanwhile, proving that the tortoise beats the hare sometimes, the 368 car, driven by Oliver and Joseph Cardamone, drove consistently to finish an excellent 25th.

After 2 poor rounds, the team needed to bounce back at Mosport and Lewis and Braith did just that, taking a great win in #367, beating Shane van Gisbergen and Justin Ruggier in the process. #366 was driven by Jake and Paul and although they had a few problems, they finished a good 7th in class. Oliver and Joseph again did well in #368, finishing 9th.

The next round was the big one - the 24 hours of Spa. The full report of the race is on another post but it was another victory for the team - with #366 winning this time.

Round 7 (the 6th race) was Monza and with the speed difference between the Rufs and BMWs, all we could hope for was a clean, consistent run from the cars and we got exactly that with Braith, Stephan Spantig and Robin Rosenvinge taking 3rd place  in #367. The toher cars also ran well, #366 finishing 8th and #368 10th.

The final round was VIR. Again the Rufs had a bit of an advantage (although not as large as Monza) but the BAM cars ran well with #367 and #366 running in formation for the last few laps of the season to finish 5th & 6th and clinch 2nd spot in the championship for #367. Another solid performance by #368 saw Oliver, Mark Dyall and Sam Harris take 9th place.


Final Championship Standing



Full Race Results

Round 1 - Daytona: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=12806181&custid=50412
Round 2 - Bathurst: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=13046423&custid=50412
Round 3 - Watkins Glen: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=13794059&custid=50412
Round 4 - Mosport: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=14187322&custid=50412
Round 5 - Phillip Island: Cancelled
Round 6: Spa 24 Hours: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=14682868&custid=50412
Round 7 - Monza: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=15148394&custid=50412
Round 8 - VIR: http://members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=15248456&custid=50412

2015 Season Review - CESCS

The CESCS series is a long establish league on iRacing that mirrors, as closely as possible, the real life series. We entered 2 cars, one focussed on Marco Abbate in a bid to win the drivers championship and a back-up car to help with setups and strategy. Marco was initially partnered by Lewis Cugaly but with Lewis starting to have connection and hardware issues, John King stepped in for a couple of rounds until Christian Challiner took over permanently, with John moving to the 2nd car.

We started the season well, with a great 2nd place at Daytona by Marco/Lewis, a brilliant 3rd at Sebring with Marco driving solo and another 2nd at Laguna with Lewis back in the car with Marco. Laguna provided the lowlight of the season with Marco (very unfairly) penalised for unavoidable contact with an MX-5. The penalty was 10 championship points in the drivers championship and although it turned out to be insignificant, it did make the last 2 rounds more tense than they could have been.

Round 4 was at Watkins and with Lewis again having problems, John stepped into the #66 with Marco. Their race was "interesting" - John was spun at T1, Lap 1 by 49 Motorsports but recovered to hand over to Marco in 5th. Marco then had a slightly slow stop during a caution period and lost positions but then drove a storming race to get the car back to 5th.

The halfway point of the series was Mosport with John again partnering Marco and Christian in #67 with Stephan. Stephan and John started and both drove well to hand over to the faster drivers in good positions. At one stage it looked like the cars could finish 1-2 but Marco was penalised for speeding in the pits (but recovered to finish 4th) and we made a strategy call to not change tyres on #67. It probably wasn't the right move but Christian drove fantastically to keep the car 2nd.

For round 6 at Lime Rock, Lewis was back but with his connection problems still lurking, Christian drove with Marco in #66 and Lewis partnered Stephan in #67. The strategy looked perfect as Christian took pole and lead for most of the 1st stint. Marco was running well but spun and damaged the car at Lime Rocks imfamous hill. #67 also run fast (Lewis setting the fastest lap of the race) but also got damaged. 8th for #67 and 11th for #66 wasn't a reflection of our pace and was easily the worst result for the team during the season.

Round 7 at Road America was spoilt by an unnecessary caution thrown by the stewards. #66, again driven by Marco and Christian, were in a very strong strategic position but their fuel advantage was given up at the caution. Their 6th place again didn't reflect their pace. Stephan and John finished a solid 7th.

The team bounced back very strongly at VIR with Marco and Christian taking a great win. #67, driven by Lewis and John (Stephan wasn't available) finished 3rd and only a weird connection problem for John that caused him to blink and drive slowly to ensure he didn't crash prevented them from making it a 1-2.

COTA was another strong performance by Christian and Marco but Christian had a disconnect during his stint and they lost a lot of time while the car towed and Marco jumped back in. 4th place was a great recovery. In #67, John drove with the Mr Clean standings in mind so gave Stephan a difficult job to make up ground but he did manage to drag the car up to 6th.

Christian sweeps by Todd Honczarenko as Todd pits for fuel
as the white flag comes out

The final race at Road Atlanta was tense for the team. Marco led the drivers championship but only by a small margin and we were a few points behind Torque Chicken and their guest stars in the team standings. The race turned out to be a strategic rerun of Road America but this time a caution didn't save the other teams and with other cars slowing to save fuel or having to make a last minute splash & Dash, Christian retook the lead he'd given up to save fuel earlier in the stint with 2 laps to go and took another great win for #66 and revenge for the Road America result.

The results were enough to seal the drivers (and rookie) championship for Marco. We narrowly failed to overtook Torque Chicken in the team standings. John, Marco and Christian made it a clean sweep for BAM in the Mr Clean standings.

2015 Season Review - Sim Racers Asia

The SRA series is an individual drivers championship but with a team element. Black Adder competed during Season 1 and 2 during 2015 and had some significant success, particularly during S2 when we ran the Cadillac (with some strategic advantages) against the GT3 cars.

During S1 we ran the BMW and did well with Lewis Cugaly often running near front and winning one round. Lewis ended 3rd overall in that season championship and a string of consistent results saw John King finish inside the top 10, despite missing a couple of rounds.

During S2, Black Adder were the only significant team to recognise that the strategy advantages given to the Caddy (full fuel so no pit stops were required and bonus championship points) would give the Caddy drivers a chance to cause some surprises.

The scene was set nicely in the opening round, with John King and Paul Rogers driving their Caddies from near the back of the grid (34th and 35th places) to 9th & 10th at the end of the race. With John and Paul being joined by Lewis, Christian Challiner and Stephan Spantig in some rounds, the results got better and better and the series organisers were forced to change some rules to prevent the BAM Caddy drivers from running away with the championship. This came to a head when Christian took a fantastic overall win in the Road America round (a feat he later repeated at Monza).

Embarrassing pics of the series - Stephan and Paul collide at the Corkscrew at Laguna

The final round was a team event at Sebring and the BAM team dominated - taking a great 1-2 victory and sealing the overall team championship (we scored more than double the points of the 2nd placed team).

The series also contained a "Clubmans" championship for drivers with lower iratings. Joseph Cardamone and Gary Fishwick ran the BMW in that and contributed valuable points towards the team champion. Joseph won 3 of the Clubmans rounds and could probably have won the championship if he hadn't missed 4 rounds early in the season.

GoT 2015/6 Round 3 - Watkins Glen 3 Hours

Christian takes the lead at the (re)start. We suspect Core Sim
and Heusinkveld d"did the right thing" and let him go 

After strong showings in the practice sessions leading up to the race, things looked good for the BAM #166 Daytona Prototype and the strong driver pairing of Christian Challiner and Tommy Vandergucht didn't disappoint with a nearly flawless performance, taking pole position, setting fastest lap, leading the most laps, having the fewest incident in the DPs and winning by a fairly comfortable 20 seconds. The victory wasn't straightforward. with a close fight during the race with CoreSimRacing who were

Having made his last stop, Tommy is overtaken  briefly by the Heusinkveld car

going longer on each stint and led whenever #166 pitted but ultimately the slightly better consistency of the BAM drivers and the even spacing of the fuel/tyre stops was decisive. After the poor result at COTA, it was good to see the car competitive again and with Heasinkveld only finishing 4th, the championship race has tightened up considerably.

In GT3, Braith Morrow and Stephan Spantig drove

Stephan in some heavy traffic

the #269 car. They had a fairly quiet and consistent race with Stephan starting and finishing and Braith doing the middle stint. The final finishing position of 7th is the 3rd race in a row that a BAM GT3 has finished in that position - it seems to be our position in the races!

#222 decides that going 3 wide into the bus stop is a good idea
Marco is spun into the barrier, effectively ending #267's race

The major disappointment was the #267 car. With Marco Abbate and John King both showing good speed in practice, we expected the car to run well. The early stages of the race looked promising, with Marco qualifying 5th and moving up to 4th. But, disaster struck on lap 23 when Marco was slowed by a crash in the Esses and then spun into the barriers by a ridiculous piece of driving by another GT3. Marco managed to continue with the badly damaged car for a few laps and then John took over after a lengthy pit stop and managed to bring the car home 9th.

APAC CHALLENGE
Race 1 Lime Rock Park:

Was a great race with the 3 Mustangs and Jetta having to constantly make there way through traffic.



The BAM members racing were Oliver Searles and Paul Rogers.

Results: members.iracing.com/membersite/member/EventResult.do?&subsessionid=15262425&custid=158878

AWARDS:

CLASS AWARDS:

Mark Webber: Losing most positions from your starting position

N/A (Mustang)
N/A (Jetta)
Thomas Martuski, Michael Dubree(Solstice)

Takuma Sato: Gaining most positions from starting position

N/A (Mustang)
N/A (Jetta)
Kevin McGilvray, Seiichi Kawada (Solstice)

Daniel Riccardo: Most positions finished ahead of number in class

Benn Callow and Paul Rogers (Mustang)
N/A (Jetta)
Nikolay Vasilyev (Solstice)

OVERALL AWARDS:

Pastor Maldonado: Highest incidents per corner
Alexandru Ghitan (7 incidents in 24 laps)

Scott Dixon: Lowest incidents per corner

Benn Callow (0 incidents in 26 laps)

Will Power: Scoring negative points

Not awarded