Great AI Racing

[donovan]

On track was some of the best racing I have had in over two years, I drove the wheels off my car and pushed harder than ever!!!

The lap times were very close, the finishing times were close. WOW!

Race 2 was just awesome, I have never raced that hard. MW was on my bumper for 6 laps and I was doing everything I could to stay in the lead. I lead 8 of the 9 laps, Matt got by be on the straight after the hairpin on the last lap... I went wide right for a fast long left hand sweeper, lost him in the mirrors (should have taken a more defensive line) the next thing I saw was him turning in front of me as he went deep on an inside run... it was awesome... I had a good run and put my front bumber on his rear all thru the esses but could not pull of a return pass, I was hoping to hold him off for my first win of 2006... Next time, I will run more defensive!

R1 - Top Five
1-White
2-George
3-Marvel
4-Donovan
5-Mosty

R2 - Top Five - Finish Diff.
1-White -----
2-Donovan +0.563
3-Marvel +1.759
4-George +1.904
5-Lyons +41.425

R3 - Top Five - 40 min. - Best Lap
1-Marvel - 1:45.723
2-George - 1:45.942
3-Lyons - 1:46.324
4-Donovan - 1:45.889
5-Mosty - 1:48.952

[chicane23]

Great Job David D. you really stepped it up!

Anyone have the lap times from R1 and R2?

[marshall_mosty]

David,
You and CL are really stepping it up. I obviously had NOTHING for you the entire weekend.

I would say that you and Chris L. probably were the "most improved" from Feb. in terms of lap times.

Great job... I'm still fighting to catch you!

[AI#97]

David, I will say this much man.....the chase I had to put on in R2 was some of the best battling I have EVER seen or been a part of right up to the point at which I was going after Lyons in R3! I was glued to the back of Chris' car and was so close, the water and oil temps were 40 degrees higher than normal!!!

You two have stepped it up so much I kept checking to see if I had my ebrake set!!! I am going to be in trouble next month in my first trip to hallet since you guys have been there before. I hope the practice the weekend before is going to be helpful.

I was VERY impressed with all of the AI guys because for the first time, we could all have been covered by a SMALL blanket. Great racing! Congrats to Marvel for consistantly low 45's......what is the track record now?.....the awesome fact of the weekend is that most of us ran well under the previous track record!!! Given the difference in conditions, that is an impressive fact! 8)

I just want to see the points! This is going to be damn close!

One thing I can say for certain is that MSRH has turned out to be a much better race track than I had originally thought.

[AI#97]

R2 - Top Five - Finish Diff.
1-White -----
2-Donovan +0.563
3-Marvel +1.759
4-George +1.904
5-Lyons +41.425

When was the last time that the top 4 finishing AI cars finished in a 2 second window?!!!!! 8)

[AI#97]

Bye the way....David D, and Chris M, if you guys need space to host videos let me know. I want every second you guys have of R2 and even R3! Hell, I want all the video because this was just an awesome weekend and even came home with a slightly bent racecar!

[donovan]

I plan on downloading the videos tonight... I will get in touch about hosting them... I have an FTP server, but the speed is pretty slow at times... downloads are usually around 100-200K, sometimes slower...

Look for them late tonight or early tomorrow morning.

David D.

[donovan]

Here you go JG,

R1 - Top Five
1-White - 1:45.935
2-George - 1:44.986
3-Marvel - 1:46.562
4-Donovan - 1:47.494
5-Mosty - 1:49.800

R2 - Top Five
1-White -1:46.063
2-Donovan - 1:46.208
3-Marvel - 1:45.824
4-George - 1:45.040
5-Lyons - 1:47.188

[cmarvel]

I want every second you guys have of R2 and even R3!

I have the first two (technical difficuties on three), and I gave a copy to Varner at the track. I suspect he will have them up somewhere soon. If not I can FTP them to you.

[donovan]

http://www.daviddonovan.com/video/2006MAYMSRHRACE1.wmv

http://www.daviddonovan.com/video/2006MAYMSRHRACE2.wmv

Right Click Save As

The server is not super fast, but they are there!!!

Race 3 should be up tonight or tomorrow morning.
David D.