Compete With Me!: R.I.R. Racing - Build Your Own Car series at California Speedway

6/15/12
And the third race - Build Your Own Car! In my opinion, one of the most exciting ones - witn intermediate models* racing
During the qualifying session a proble with the gate was faced, and Midnight had to pass the qualifying 2 times, and ZZ - even 4 times! (Got qualified only after the reset... well, everything happens), what turned out to be a good practice for her and allowed her to take the pole position! As a result, the starting positions were distributed between the racers manually, according to the qualifying results they got before and after the gate reset.
Kypton took over the leading position from ZZ at the second lap, just to give it up to Eagle who meaniwhile was regaining his time after dropping to the 5th position at the 1st lap, and then held the leadershit almost through the whole race keeping Kypton behind him and expanding the gap between them bit by bit. Meanwhile, ZZ has lost the 3rd position to BanningBairde, but promptly regained it. She has lost it again only at the lap 63 to Kenn Smithson and was pushing to the limit not to let Kenn keep the 3rd place too long - and she regained it back at the lap 74, but despite this, Kenn was going close enough to her to get it back at the lap 91 and finish 3rd.
Mr Sweets and MidnightRambler were going neck to neck at the first laps fighting for the 6th position, from time to time - even literally:

[18:52] Oval Island Gate shouts: MidnightRambler Frostbite P 6 Lap 11, 17.232, TBL -13.761
[18:52] Oval Island Gate shouts: SweetTooth Firehawk P 6 Lap 11, 18.406, TBL -13.738,

while BanningBairde was going at the 5th one. I actually have to remark him - BanningBairde held the 5th position through almost the whole race, losing it only for a lap or two at most.
We even got 2 retirements: Mongo Horberg, who's car fell through the track (what, sadly, takes place in Second Life) and shishi90, who's reason for retirement is not clear for me - he claimed he hit the wall, and now I wonder how hard you need to hit it to get retired.
Well, I was sleepy as hell when I was watching the race (that's why I've wrote it only today - had to take a nap), but despite this, it was very fun to watch. Thanks everyone, and congratulations winners! (Who won? Keep reading to find out!)

* 27 settings that all effect the handling differently and hp of the car drafting and bump drafting enabled.

doobeedoo Littlething

Race director: doobeedoo Littlething

Starting positions:

Pole Position. 'ZZ Bottom' (foneco Zuzu)
P 2. BanningBairde (#5)
P 3. Eagle Clawtooth (#22)
P 4. Kypton Darkfury (#84)
P 5. Kenn Smithson (#88)
P 6. M尺 ŠωЄЄƬŠ (SweetTooth Firehawk) (#32)
P 7. MidnightRambler Frostbite (#17)
P 8. Durron Sockington (#01)
P 9. shishi90 (#00)
P 10. Diana Frostbite (Diana Beeswing) (#18)
P 11. Mongo Horberg (#07)

Race has been started at: 6:49 PM SLT
Number of laps: 100

Quick overview through the race leaders:
Lap 1: 1. 'ZZ Bottom' (foneco Zuzu) * 2. Kypton Darkfury, TBL -0.864 * 3. Kenn Smithson, TBL -1.486
Lap 2: 1. Kypton Darkfury * 2. 'ZZ Bottom' (foneco Zuzu), TBL -0.911 * 3. Kenn Smithson, TBL -1.266
Lap 3: 1. Kypton Darkfury * 2. BanningBairde Resident, TBL -2.619 * 3. Eagle Clawtooth, TBL -3.331
Lap 4: 1. Kypton Darkfury * 2. Eagle Clawtooth, TBL -2.802 * 3. BanningBairde Resident, TBL -4.531
Lap 8: 1. Kypton Darkfury * 2. Eagle Clawtooth, TBL -4.287 * 3. ZZ Bottom, TBL -7.828
Lap 10: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, TBL -1.490 * 3. ZZ Bottom, TBL -5.702
Lap 20: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, TBL -5.221 * 3.  ZZ Bottom, TBL -9.559
Lap 35: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, TBL -2.986 * 3.  ZZ Bottom, TBL -12.343
Lap 50: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, TBL -9.887 * 3.  ZZ Bottom, -1 laps
Lap 63: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, TBL -11.727 * 3.  Kenn Smithson, -1 laps
Lap 74: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, -1 laps * 3. ZZ Bottom, -2 laps
Lap 90: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, -1 laps * 3. ZZ Bottom, -3 laps
Lap 99: 1. Eagle Clawtooth * 2. Kypton Darkfury, -1 laps * 3. -

Final results:

[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 1st. Eagle Clawtooth, 100 laps. Total Time : 1697.790
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 2nd. Kypton Darkfury, -1 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 3rd. Kenn Smithson, -3 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 4th. foneco Zuzu, -3 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 5th. BanningBairde Resident, -6 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 6th. MidnightRambler Frostbite, -6 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 7th. Durron Sockington, -8 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 8th. SweetTooth Firehawk, -8 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 9th. Diana Beeswing, -25 laps.
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 10th. shishi90 Resident, -59 laps. (retired)
[19:17] Oval Island Gate shouts: 11th. Mongo Horberg, -64 laps. (retired)

Fastest race lap: Eagle Clawtooth, 15.562

Race has been ended at: 7:17 PM SLT

Before the race: