G1-GP Season 3 Opener

It was a bit of hard and wild racing at the Gilles Villenueve circuit in Montreal Canada for the G1-GP season 3 LMP 900 round 1 race..... A 1st lap crunch in turn 2 , started it off, involving 3 cars and ultimately retiring Nella Boccara. 3 drivers barely avoided the wreck and continued on after the leaders.

Up in the front Remon Franizzi ran away a little bit with Jafo Tendaze in hot pursuit ... Remon ran a near flawless race ultimately getting the win . Jafo had it a bit worse , unfortunately was using a car setup nearly verbatim from myself and suffered late race Brake failure and retirement , just as i did hehe .

There were several notable duels during the race, Suku Ming vs Suzy Cuddihy for 3rd.... Myself and Katier Reitveld had a fun running battle for a lap or 2 , several good passes back and forth by both of us . Sulla Looming stayed steady and fast , with Jafo putting on heavy pressure near the end of race before his brakes failed . Sulla got 2nd, Suzy Cuddihy 3rd, Suku Ming 4th and Jafo ended up 5th in official scoring .

6 cars of 11 retired from this one in quite a bash em up ...Canada was one of the harder races on the schedule , but i dont think anyone quite expected that many cars to go down ... well thats racing , Drivers will cheer triumph or wince in defeat for a moment or 2 and focus on the next round , which is the first of 3 UK races this season at Silverstone raceway .

G1-GP -- Season 2 finale

The G1-GP season 2 has finally come to a close with triumph and heartbreak at the Round 10 russian roullette match at Buffalo Back park figure 8. The season had come down to a final showdown between Suku Ming and Sulla Looming , with Suku leading in the standings by just 1 point . Having led after 9 rounds , it was Suku's choice for the final race, and Suku made the controversial choice of Legends on the dirt figure 8 at Buffalo Back .

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With a car crunching crossover at mid track, it was up in the air wether anyone would finish the race. Jafo Tendaze landed his 4th pole with the Legends cars , pole ace Sulla Looming was suprisingly unable to do better than 6th on grid , despite being significantly faster during practice sessions.

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But one thing about Sulla , when she lacks in qualifying she is determined to make up in starts and this was no exception , jumping quickly from 6th to 2nd by turn 1 . Jafo led around for 5 laps before Sulla cornered hard and fast making a nice pass on him. Suku was determined to keep pace, having stayed in close 3rd to this point.

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But soon Jafo's times started lagging , holding Suku up some , meanwhile Sulla steadily pulled away , leading around for the next 11 laps . By this time in race, nearly half a lap back , Myself, Rattra and Yuriko had been dueling it out for positions 4th - 6th lap after lap ...then came the fatefull lap 17 . Rattra was in 4th and around the turn and off to the crossover first, me close behind and Yuriko close behind me .

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Out of my peripheral i saw Sulla approaching the crossover from the opposite direction, from my perspective at current speeds there looked to be a collision, Rattra and Yuriko didnt hesitate and made it thru safely , i didnt try to make it thru instead stood on the brakes hard, while Sulla had been slowing herself to avoid the crossover traffic...and then crunch ..i T-boned Sulla, we were both out of shape and stunned i think, both got going again. But Sulla's chassis had taken a bit of damage and her handling was kaput forcing her to retire.

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I only had a little bit of handling loss and was able to finish in 5th ...Suku held on strong for the remaining 14 laps , winning the race and the Season 2 championship. Jafo had fallen back due to difficulties and finished 4th , but Rattra and Yuriko had held on and battled tooth and nail for the rest of the race and 2nd place . Yuriko had 2nd going into final straight , but Rattra had the jump on her and pulled away in the last meters for a exciting finish and 2nd place.

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Thus season 2 comes to a end , after Legends on some good oval fights, Rally cars thru the mountains that made for some exciting races to drive, and F3's thru some classic close quarter street tracks, and a dirt figure 8 to finish it all...it was a unusual season to say the least , i had alot of fun and i hope everyone else did too .

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But thats not all , not nearly all...we are now gearing up for our first top series season with LMP 900 prototypes ..and at the same time will be running a 18 race Late model stock season that should be alot of fun also ..stay tuned more to come ... Including ...finally...the final 2 race highlight reel for season 1

Recruiting for G1-GP season 3

As the 2nd successful season of Second Life drivers racing on Rfactor is drawing to a close... I am doing some limited recruiting to expand our ranks for upcoming season 3 . Season 3 test races will begin approx mid July and the season will officialy kickoff approx early August . Here are some of the requirements to join us... for what has been some really fun racing ....

1.. need to be a friend or aquaintance of mine within SL , pre-race and post race happen within the confines of SL , so having a SL background is a must .

2. Need Rfactor program , costs anywhere from 20 to $30 US , depending on how you get it , ebay or amazon, or as a Download ect...

3. Need some level of controller above just a keyboard, Gamepad is cheapest , and has been used as a effective controller by several of the current racers, wheel is ideal but not a requirement...in fact if you can handle just driving with keyboard , your more than welcome too.

4. Some patience with the process, the technical nature of Rfactor does make you jump thru a few hoops in getting setup , Downloading and installing mods and stuff, this is something that becomes "old hat" after doing it a bit . We have a alot of people willing to help you also .

5. Official League times are Open practice monday and tuesdays at 6pm SLT to approx 8 or 9pm or so .. this isnt mandatory, just a good way to exchange setups , to make sure no one is having probs connecting to server , some race traffic practice and to compare times with other racers.
Races are held Wednesdays at 5pm SLT ....and are run in following format ....
----5pm SLT Driver meeting at G1-GP Clubhouse....at 5:10 Server will go up for Race practice
----Race practice lasts between 30 to 45 minutes depending on track and my own judgment of how much practice some people may need.
----Qualify session , usual format is 10 laps in a 20 minute session
---- Race....Races vary in length , but for season 3 , will last from 30 to 40 minutes .
----Post-Race wrap up and podium ceremony back at the G1-GP clubhouse, entire event lasts approx 2 hours.

Season 3 will be run using a mod , the cars will be LMP 900s (LeMans prototypes) , run in a series of 10 real world road courses. Some of the tracks are included with Rfactor , some need to be downloaded and installed ...all info for that will be supplied by me and everyone currently in the league are a great help to new racers if theres any help needed. I will be releasing the season 3 schedule shortly .

The following is a short demo video of the cars and game , showing off the sights and sounds that will be part of season 3 ... Contact me in SL if you are interested , thanks .....

We are only accepting a limited amount of new drivers ..so if interested send me a IM asap

On the top step: Zaria and Katier

To catch up a little.... im gonna cover both the last FormulaSL race (round 10 at Amber Raceway) and the last G1-GP race (Round 8 at Lienz Hillclimb) with this post .

For a period spanning 44 rounds of FormulaSL and MotoSL , Archer racing had been in 1st place, but that came to a end with FormulaSL Round 9 at Bekstone raceway, Annie Gufler and AM Pro racing became the first team to topple Archer from the top spot since its creation back in season 1 of FormulaSL . Not a team to stay down when down, Archer put in the effort needed to regain the top spot.

Annie had her worst finish of the season at Amber raceway finishing 8th , Jafo finished 2nd and Yuriko 3rd. Needing to gain 4 points on Am Pro to regain the Team points lead, Archer gained 29 points on them. But the story of Round 10 was InDrive's Zaria Falconer who gave herself and her team their first RaceSL victory. Jafo and Yuriko both led the race at various times , but in the end Zaria grabbed the lead after the field took its 2nd pitstop and led the last 7 laps for the victory, her teamie Caz Freschi finished 4th .

Big grats to Zaria and her team on the victory, and big grats to my own team on their superb performance in regaining the Team lead. Round 11 of FSL season 3 will be at Racer's island Midnight track.

Round 8 of G1-GP season 2 ....Lienz hillclimb. The 3rd and final rally race of season 2 , promised to be prolly the most difficult , with average times of 3 minutes and 50 seconds a lap, the Lienz hillclimb mixed a combination of offroad dirt and paved racetrack .

Like previous Lienz Rally races, this one consisted of 2 seperate races, with the final results being compiled from the results of both races. Jafo Tendaze impressed all with his 3rd pole position of the season . But this was still not enough to stop a hard charging Sulla Looming from jumping as fast as possible to the front of the pack.

In the first race this was aided by most of the field overshooting turn 1 onto the dirt portion of the race track, Sulla raced ahead into the lead with myself at first following closely . But my luck soon ran out later on the 1st lap , i overshot a turn a little and was going to fast and too wide into one of the faster portions of the paved track, striking a portion of guardrail head on .

This put the kaibosh on the rest of my race, Sulla won it , with Katier close behind in 2nd and Jafo finishing 3rd.

Up next was the 2nd round with Jafo again on pole , again Sulla proved quick at the start... racing into lead, but it was Sulla's turn to run out of luck, running in 3rd i sorta saw what happened , but all i know is i saw Sulla careen far to the left into the woods and ..kapowww hit a tree which sent her flying back onto the dirt track sideways blocking the path of Katier who was at that point running 2nd .

I barely nudged my way past the mess and into the lead where i stayed for the rest of the race. Behind me Jafo and Katier were racing the real race , both of them battling back and forth with the possibility of whichever of them finished 2nd would get the overall win . But in the end Katier prevailed and thus captured her 1st G1-GP victory . Jafo was 2nd overall, with Sulla 3rd, Rattra Raymaker 4th and myself 5th .

Next Round for G1-GP season 2 is F3s at the venerable Monaco city street track , with 4 persons still very much in the run for the championship. Suku Ming currently leads..Sulla and Myself in 2nd and 3rd tied in points, and Caz freschi , unfortunately having missed the hillclimb..still not very far behind in 4th .

Some quick facts after 8 races, 5 different winners , 9 different people having been on the podium, only 1 polesitter of 8 has taken a victory.

Farewell Mooz , FSL round 9

It was just over 2 years ago i strolled into Mooz looking for the MotoSL 2 season. I found out i was a few weeks too late , instead i found RaceSL, a close knit group of fellow racers , 5 seasons of Formula and Superbikes. But alas a struggling economy and a struggling technology takes another victim with the 3rd major RaceSL track, the home track , lost in 2009.
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The first being Snowpeach, home track of Museum of Robots owned by Count and Bibi Bayliss, long time supporters and contributers. This was one of my fav tracks on the circuit. Next was RD Motorsports sim, owned by Raver Bellow and home of the Canyon track and Raver's own Wide track. FormulaSL season 3 , round 9 is the final race at Mooz , on a new track located high in the sky, designed and built by Bikey Bekkers.
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Zaria Falconer and Caz Freschi of Kokopelli's InDrive team did great, battling each other back and forth for 2nd and 3rd, Zaria prevailing in the end .
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Caz actualy qualified into the B group, but ran that race solidly getting the advance. HotWire driver Suzy Cuddihy looked like she would get 2nd , but it wasnt to be . Frutopian Mango Birdbrain getting up for 2nd and the pass to Group A instead.
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Ashe Revnik and Abacus Mimistrobell got 1st and 2nd in the C race, with Molly Fitzgerald just missing out after tangling with non-yielding traffic while in the lead. Molly got back to 2nd , fell to 3rd last lap .
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Abacus handily won the D group race. Although gone , the history of mooz lives on, as does the track, with Les Whites handy track rezzers, Mooz can be put down anywhere a friendly low lag sim will let him....the same with Snowpeach, Canyon and the Wide Track, so the hope is that all that is lost is a bit of a inflated monthly bill and ....a sim , although classified and class 5, seemed to often be sick and not quite performing up to its advertised potential .
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Round 10 moves us to host Amber Raceway , a multi-tiered track , with a club, drag strip, airplane pylon racing , a resort and alot of fun things to do.

G1-GP Update

Finaly doing a overdue update on the how the G1-GP season 2 is coming along since i havent posted since Round 1.....we are up to Round 5 with Round 6 just around the corner .

Round 2 at Lienze GP short... the first rally race of the season was well anticipated cause this is a small fun track. Consensus was that it would be crashed filled with alot of people finishing the race crashed out ...but actualy quite the opposite everyone did quite well and finished the race in its entirety.

Sulla Looming proved unstoppable here , winning both races that comprise the event . Caz Freschi gave Sulla a run for her money in the 2nd race, but once Sulla got by she was gone . Caz finished 2nd overall, myself 3rd, and Yum Divesadero scored a G1-GP career high finish of 4th .

Round 3 at Miami Bayfront ...for round 3 we switch to F3s at the small tight Miami track . I had hopes for a pole position after driving well during the weeks practice rounds, but things dont always worked out , Remon Franizzi grabbed pole , and i was all way down in 5th .

Caz Freschi didnt disappoint his fans in the crowd that were waving signs that read "Green means go !" , "Pit Limiters, not just for the pits!" , "Chill out!!" and "Milk does the body good" , as the greens flashed , Caz was waiting for a 2nd opinion on the matter....meanwhile much to the chagrin of everyone behind him, Remon, Sulla and myself on other side of grid, got good starts and raced ahead to turn 1 .

Remon led around for a good half the race, Sulla in 2nd till she spun and smacked the wall and pitted for repairs, into 2nd i went and after Remon . After a nice pass if i do say so myself , i was in the lead and never looked back grabbing my first win of season . Remon got 2nd, Jafo Tendaze 3rd , Caz eventualy joined in the fun after his mis-start and got up for 4th, Katier Reitveld rounded out top 5.

Round 4 at Joesville ....Round 4 brought us back to the Legends cars at the 1/2 mile oval at Joesville. Jafo nailed his 2nd pole position of the season on the ovals . But it was Suku Ming who got the the best start and led the pack around for all 50 laps for her 2nd victory of season , Jafo hot on Suku's heels for 2nd and myself 3rd. Nella Bocarra and Sulla Looming both had incidents resulting in big crashes .

Round 5 at Lienz GP....the 2nd rally round of the season , brought us to maybe arguably the hardest track of the season , the 3 minute a lap Lienz GP , and prolly the most mayhem of the season . There was no shortage of wrecks and questionable driving in this one . Favorite Sulla Looming crashed out on the 1 lap qualify round setting her back in the pack for both races.
While i was out front with my first pole of season and i made the best of it running out front as hard as i could .

It wasnt enough in the first race though , leading the whole thing i spun once in the final lap , allowing Sulla who had worked her way up to 2nd early on to pass and take the win . Race 2 was much the same me out front , Sulla worked her way up to 2nd , but lost concentration and crashed out early . Highlights of this race was a nice racing battle between Suku and Rattra Raymaker for 2nd place.

Suku did a great job holding off Rattra for awhile , but eventualy he was able to get by, but just long enough to get spun by lapped traffic allowing Suku by again where she finished 2nd in the race. Fortunately for Rattra his points in both races was good enough to get him 2nd overall. Suku finishing a impressive 3rd overall , Remon 4th and Katier 5th .

Next round is this wednesday , back to F3's this time at Long beach .
G1-GP stats can be found at http://g1gpracing.blogspot.com/

FormulaSL - Round 7

Round 7 found a little smaller field of 23 drivers attending , cause of the holliday weekend , this time at the PSU 1 track at Motorato Ware's Hotwire racetrack sim . Just check archives if you wanna know how i feel about my luck at this track hehe.

Annie Gufler took her 6th Pole and 6th win of the season , but this time just ahead of Jafo Tendaze looking for his first win of the season . Jafo was hunting Annie for the last 8 laps of the race, closing the gap in the last 3 , but Annie held on for the win . Jafo 2nd , and Laney Recreant with her 2nd podium of season coming in 3rd after advancing from the B group race and putting on a very nice performance in the A group race.

I got a rare glimpse at the front and led for a few laps before my old friend PSU 1 badluck paid me a visit , and i finished 4th overall . Silk Bamboo shared in some of my luck , there was plenty to go around , with a early lead at start of race, Silk looked strong to finish 3rd, but ran into troubles ending up in 5th .

One car i thought would finish higher was Racers Island's own Brave Ashbourne , i heard his engine buzzing close in my ear a few times over several laps , i think Brave was held up sometimes by my shaky driving at that point in race, but he drove much like a racer in RL would without charging thru at first chance no matter what , unfortunately Brave ran into some troubles and fell back before getting by me , finishing in 6th.

Caz Freschi and Yuriko Nishi rounded out the field also having races with heaping helpings of bad luck and technical difficulties. Annie Gufler now leads the points championship by a large margin , with Yuriko in 2nd and Jafo 3rd .

Other highlights of day started in D race , where Amber Raceway veteran Kelly Grumiaux had a good race, driving steady in 2nd place, looking like she would get the advance with Rattra Raymaker who led the whole race, but Kelly ran into trouble, and her own team mate Tracy Torok got by and finsihed 2nd .

C race might have been most chaotic of the day , with alot of collisions alot of off roading and mayhem . The story early in the race was Race island's Nella Bocarra, on a mission to score some points was in 2nd and even led for a bit in early laps of race before falling back , unfortunately finishing 8th after more troubles.

Around laps 5 and 6 the field settled down some , with returning veteran Yamaha Harley holding onto a steady lead, untill he pitted, Yamaha seemed to be in the pits forever before finally exiting in 5th place, Yamaha ended up finishing 3rd and a very good performance despite being rusty .

After the pits DYG driver Darko Revnik took over and led the rest of the 20 lap race, winning his first FSL group race, grats to DYG team they certainly have put in the practice in effort to improve steadily during this season.

The other story of C race was Shoshin racing's Ford Roffo, who has been qualifying well lately but unable to bring home the bacon in the main races, this time was different, Ford hovered around the top 4 all race , driving steady enough to grab 2nd and a pass to the B race.

B race was punctuated mostly by Caz Freschi running a tight race, leading nearly the entire thing , Motorato Ware gave chase early in the race, but contact with traffic put her in trouble around lap 10 . In the end Caz ran into enough problems to get 2nd behind Laney Recreant who filled the void when Moto fell back .

Final results were Laney 1st, Caz 2nd , Moto 3rd , Molly Fitzgerald 4th , and Indrive's Zaria Falconer 5th . Just 1 week till round #8 ...on the oval at Greg Drayman's Kokopelli Raceway . The FSL cars on the oval is always mayhem , and im sure this one wont disappoint.

Formula SL , Round 6

The 6th round of the current FSL season brings us to the RD Motosports sim and the Wide track. Last raced on during MotoSL season 4. Its a fast wide open track , with the Formula cars this means danger, spins and crashes. Another full field for this one, as 27 show up for the challenge.

Annie Gufler showed a fast hand today , grabbing her 4th pole and eventualy 5th win of the season. Yuriko Nishi also using a supercharged setup finished on the lead lap after some trouble about mid race where she fell as low as

Yuriko started out well chasing Annie close and eventualy taking the lead on lap 7, but Annie regained the lead again lap 10 and ran away with this one , Yuriko was able to finish on the lead lap , currently in drivers points Yuriko is 2nd by 25 points , with overtaking Annie, atleast possible on paper still.

Remon Franizzi was also running a turbo charged package, but he was tested by a 8th place qualify and had to race the 35 lap B race before the 50 lap A race. He dominated the B race untill a tangle with traffic allowed Moto Ware to charge ahead on lap 19 and lead around for 6 laps before she had her own problems in traffic, Remon got by and took the win in the B race.

As far back as last place during the 50 lap A race, Remon stayed steady and patient and , breaking thru to 2nd place on lap 33 and finished strong in 3rd.

Myself qualified 3rd , and for most part had my usual fall back then tunnel vision racing with hopes of being able to move thru field some and finish as well as possible, i was somehow able to grab 4th overall on the day . I was as far back as 7th for a bit and got as high as 3rd, some handling troubles in the closing laps allowed a very close finish between myself , Caz Freschi and Moto.

Caz Freschi for the InDrive team has certainly made his home up in the A group race, and once again proved why with a good start , he chased Annie and Yuriko from 3rd. Staying strong Caz moved up to 2nd after Annie had troubles in early part of race, after the 1st pit stop Caz was still in 2nd , with Yuriko falling back to 3rd. But after the pit Caz' fortunes changed, he held onto 2nd for a bit , then falling back and finishing strong in 5th overall.

Motorato Ware had a long day this round, having to race 3 races totaling 110 laps. Qualifying 13th , Moto started the racing day behind the wheel in the C group , 25 laps , of which Moto led for all but 1 lap, at the very end Ashe Revnik of the strong rookie Midnight Lotus team passed her , but Moto got lead back and beat Ashe by less than 1 second.

Onto the B race, 35 laps , Moto had a bit more trouble this go , and was caught up in hard charging traffic early on , but bided her time , moving from 7th to 4th after one pile up and 4th to 2nd after another. Leading laps 19 thru 25 , Moto crashed out and fell back to 4th again , then 5th for the next , needing to get atleast 2nd to advance to the A group race, Moto stayed steady late in the race, moving to 4th then 3rd, a final lap spin by the other skilled Midnight Lotus rookie, Laney Recreant, gave Moto the slight chance she needed to get by and grab 2nd . Moto got 6th overall in the A race, again having problems early, but staying steady and moving up for a strong finish, less than a second out of 4th place.

Jafo Tendaze had a bit shakier day than im sure he would have liked to have, qualifying 6th , just making it in the A race. Jafo started strong running steady in 4th chasing the lead group of 3 closely . Jafo also had problems after 1st pit , falling back to 7th . Jafo got back to 4th after i needed a 3rd pitstop , but had some misfortunes in the final laps landing him 7th overall .

There were several other strong performances on the day , most notable being Ashe Revnik , who qualified way back in 20th and also like Moto raced in 3 races, for a total of 75 laps .
Ashe won the D race handly, start to finsih , with a closer race for 2nd being won by Racer Island's Brave Ashebourne. Ace Crabe in 3rd, Nella Bocarra 4th.

Ashe had to over come more adversity in the C race, where he fell back to 4th early on , but kept his eye on the prize, working his way to 2nd on lap 8, and was able to lead for a lap after Moto spun, Moto won but Ashe got 2nd and the advance to B group.

Saori Otsuka of Racer's Island, once again showed her skills in the C race, chasing Moto in 2nd for the first 7 laps of the race, but crashed big lap 8 falling back to 7th and eventualy finishing in 6th . Brave Ashebourne got up for 3rd, just beating Ramrods chief Ram Pharoah at the line , Ram 4th, Molly Fitzgerald finishing 5th just ahead of a late charging Saori.

Ashe did well in the B race , never further back then 3rd most of the race, was in 2nd a few laps , and even in the lead for a lap , but had a hard last part of race , eventualy finishing 4th , putting a commendable end to one of the better driving performances of the day.

The racers are off for a week but will return to race at the venerable PSU 1 track , thought lost at one time , but ressurected by Motorato Ware at her Hotspot sim. For me personally the word redemption first pops to mind, but mostly having bad luck at PSU 1 , makes me think again. It will be another good one .

A very nice video of this race and several other races this season, can be found at......
http://www.slodcast.com/

FormulaSL Round #5 in the Desert

This week we raced at Les White's brand new Desert track , a fast curvy track with fast times and lots of action. 28 drivers came out to brave the heat , with the Italian team in particuliar having a nice size cheering section, once everyone was descripted and ready, Race Director Yum Divesadero got the proceedings underway.

Annie Gufler grabber her 4th pole position , her AM Pro pit crew is honed to a knifes edge with the drivers championship already in sight , a 1 stop strategy scored her a 4th win of the season.
Racers Island Remon Franizzi finished 2nd after qualifying 3rd. Myself 3rd, after qualifying 6th,
Caz 4th, Jafo 5th, Yuriko 6th, Laney Recreant 7th and INDrive's Zaria Falconer 8th.

The A race was a bit of a wild one , lots of spinning and lead changes with Remon Franizzi and Caz freschi taking over the lead from Annie for several laps . At one point on lap 17, the top 5 cars were all very close to one another, at one point 5th place being 2.3 seconds behind the leader. Both Remon and Caz held the lead at this late point in the race, but in the end it was Annie's 1 stop strategy that go her the win, a very good race by everyone.

Yuriko qualified 7th overall and dominated the B race, leading wire to wire to advance, Zaria Falconer was strong in 2nd the whole way too . A closer battle for 3rd between Brave Ashbourne, Ashe Revnik and Ram Pharoah, with Brave getting 3rd in the end . Ram 4th and Molly Fitzgerald 5th .

The C race was all Ashe Revnik's... leading the whole race , with Ram grabbing 2nd for the advance . This race was another good one for places 3rd and down , with alot of good driving and passing, AM Pro boss Abacus Mimistrobell got 3rd and Racers Island's own Nella Bocarra 4th .

The D race looked like it was gonna Suzy Cuddihy and Rattra Raymaker easy for the advance to C, but Rattra fell back some and it was a race for 2nd , between Rattra , Abacus and Ace Crabe.
Ace fell out , but Abacus just barely beat Rattra to the line for the advance and the closest finish of the day .

Round 6th is in 1 week at Raver Bellow's own "Wide Track" in the RD Motorsports sim, we raced there last Bike season, but this is first visit in the cars , should be a fast close race.

G1-GP Season 2 opener

Wednesday night was the season opener of G1-GP season 2 , the Triathalon....the first race being Legends cars at the Stockton 1/4 mile oval. 11 drivers showed for the tiny oval brawl, 3 more than last seasons opener.

Jafo Tendaze put down the fastest lap in the 2 lap qualify to secure his first pole position . The race began and Jafo looked like he was in good position to take his first G1-GP win, in front and running steady...First lap was my one and only highlight of race, when i passed Sulla Looming who had drifted high in a turn , puting me in 3rd place behind Jafo and Suku Ming.

But the fortunes of racing can often change quickly and they did lap 5 when Nella Bocarra got a little loose coming into a turn and spun out . Jafo barely missed her swerving high, then coming back down into infield , and just barely not getting stuck nose first into wall (Legends cars have no reverse).

I wasnt so lucky , no time and no room to manuever i hit Nella and was then struck by Katier Reitveld , taking us both out of the race. This left veteran driver Suku Ming in the lead and in command for the next 42 laps . But the race was not over , Sulla Looming slowly gained on Suku lap after lap , finaly getting within striking distance in the closing laps (lap 47 of 50) , almost getting by , but Suku was steady as a rock , while Sulla swerved a little losing ground lap 48.

Suku held on for her first G1-GP win ...the following video shows the highlights ive detailed above . Good racing by all, next race is Rally cars on the short Gp track at Lienz.

Full WMV file can be download at .........

http://rapidshare.com/files/227750228/Round1-season2.wmv.html

Season 1 Highlights- Part 2

Here finaly part 2 of the G1-GP season 1 highlights..still not done though as this covers only rounds 5 and 6, next up will be part 3 with rounds 7 and 8.

After a 4 week pre-season , opening day for Season 2 has finally arrived , with Round 1 being Legends cars at the Stockton 1/4 mile oval. This should be a interesting race, as this track is only half the size of several of the oval raceways in Second Life.

Top drivers of the pre-season were Rattra Raymaker, Sulla Looming and Suzy Cuddihy. With new driver Remon Franizzi making his mark, and proving he will be one to watch.

Full sized WMV of the video can be downloaded at ......

http://rapidshare.com/files/227005842/Season1-Highlights2.wmv.html

ps note-- Yes the Nuerburg race was that dark by then end ...pitch black

FormulaSL Season 3 - Racer's Island

Laney Recreant wins big , 2008 FSL Round #4

This was, as many know, one of the more controversial races for RaceSL in awhile. I could go into length here why , but i dont want to take away from Laney Recreant's accomplishment because she certainly had nothing to do with controversey , and everything to do with the high level of skill, poise and class that RaceSL strives for .

Qualifying 5th, Laney raced the early portion of the race in 6th , slowly working her way up to 2nd place around time of the first pitstop and then taking the lead over from Remon Franizzi on lap 17 and never looked back , winning handily . Annie Gufler 2nd, and Yuriko Nishi Nishi 3rd.

Group B was a close battle between Hotspot Racings Silk Bamboo and Ramrod Racing Just Catteneo . Silk led for the first 18 laps before a incident sent her back to 3rd, and then back to 2nd where she chased Just closely for 4 laps before retaking the lead and the win . Just 2nd , myself 3rd. Molly Fitzgerald 4th .

The C race was another exciting one to watch , with 3 leaders swapping off during it , Zaria Falconer of Indrive led early on , then Motorato Ware for a couple laps before the pits . Molly Fitzgerald took over for a bit after the pit stops , before Moto took over for the remaining 8 laps and the winning , Molly 2nd , and Zaria 3rd after bouncing back from being last at one point.

Race D was a big one for Alice Racing vet Darko Revnik who , deservedly led from wire to wire, Darko has been putting in the time and effort in practice and it paid off here with a very nice drive and the advance up to C race. Racers island own Strife Leominster took 2nd and the advance with Am Pro veteran TFFox Tammas getting 3rd.

Next race will be in 2 weeks at the new beautiful desert track . Big thanks to Racers Island to hosting round 4 at their nice new Formula track, despite the controversey , a good time was had by most .

G1-GP Season 2 preview....

The G1-GP Rfactor league is steadily working up to the start of a new season. This time the racers are gonna have to race a variety of cars on a variety of tracks to test everyones strengths and weaknesses in a more diverse season .

There will be 3 races each of 3 different classes this time ... Legend coupes and sedans on small ovals and small road tracks..... Rally cars on mountain and offroad rally tracks and Formula 3 cars in dangerous downtown type city tracks .

Here is a little video showing some highlights from the test races weve run so far for all 3 classes....The season is slated to start Wednesday April 29th .

Also available to download the better quality WMV at ....

http://rapidshare.com/files/221730326/Test-Highlights.wmv.html

FormulaSL - Round3 at Snowpeach

Annie Gufler takes 3rd straight in Round 3

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Another 40+ peeps crowded into the viewing room at a race track to partake in the current FormulaSL season, this time the venue is the venerable Snowpeach , owned by Count and Bibi Bayliss, long time contributors, supporters and participants in RaceSL.

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32 racers entered the que to qualify for the 26 spots in the 4 races. Yuriko Nishi got her first FormulaSL pole position, in her bid to catch the runaway AM PRO driver Annie Gufler.

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As always after qualify then a short break its time to run the races..first of the day is Group D , with Alice Racing veteran Darko Revnik on pole. Darko didnt have too good a start recieving some heavy contact and finished in 7th . This race belonged to Ram Pharoah , who got in the lead lap 4 and didnt look back . 2nd was Strife Leominster, 3rd was Nella Boccara. Saori Otsuka put on a very good performance in this race, Leading for 3 laps then chasing Ram for a bit , but falling behind out of 2nd finishing in 5th .

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Group C ...may have been one of most back and forth battles weve seen in awhile..Stang Voom , Suzy Cuddihy and Remon Franizzi battled up front for most of this 20 lap race. Stang led for the first 2 , then fell way back for a bit after a early pitstop ,while Remon took over for 5 laps untill it was time for pits.

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Stang led again untill spinning out , Suzy Cuddihy took over and was looking like she was cruising to a win, when she had a incident with traffic, a close battling Stang and Remon got by her, and battled each other in finals laps..Remon was just 1.6 seconds behind at lap 19, but Stang held on for the win, finish order of Stang, Remon, Suzy, Ram and Strife Leominster in top 5 .

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Group B was all about how good a driver can get with enough practice, and in this case im talking about Shoshin ace Molly Fitzgerald . Her B race from pole this round was exciting and skill filled, dodging traffic, pitting well, and a back and forth battle with zT top cheese Stang Voom.

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Molly led 15 laps and Stang led 10, but in the last part of the race it was all Molly and the battle was between Stang and InDrive Racing driver Caz Freschi . Caz was by into 2nd for laps 21 to 23 , but spun allowing Stang by for 2nd and the the advance.

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Group A ...well lets see...Yuriko got pole ...then ...well my memory is a little blurry i just drove and finished where i did , id put a more detailed recap here...but im not sure anyone knows exactly what happened..mayhem .

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The story of the A race was prolly Silk Bamboos awesome early chase of Annie after getting by the early mayhem . 11 laps Silk kept good pace with her , kept her in sight . Eventualy falling behind , but never out of 2nd , finishing 2nd , i finished 3rd , Jafo 4th , Yuriko 5th . Annie led the entire race eventualy lapping everyone atleast 2 times ..most of the field got lapped 3 times or more.

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Impressive stats for season leader Annie Gufler ...after 3 races and 21 opponent finishes...only 1 time did someone finish on lead lap, Yuriko in Round 2. Currently Annie is 1st, Yuriko 2nd, Jafo 3rd...Archer hangs onto the team lead , with Am Pro close behind , InDrive in 3rd. Next saturday is round 4 at Racers island .

Part 1 G1-GP Season 1 highlights

Heres part 1 of 2 , covering the first 4 races of season , i will release 2nd one soon covering races 5 to 8.

There is also a higher quality version available here for

download http://rapidshare.com/files/217568990/Part1.wmv.html

Round 2 FormulaSL 3 2009

RD Motorsports played host to the 2nd round of this season of FormulaSL , the skies we clear and blue, hardly a lag cloud in the sky (can never escape SL lag, but it was nice anyways ). Another 40 + drivers and spectators crowded into the viewing box. 29 drivers entering the que for the event.

Annie Gufler got her 2nd straight pole and 2nd straight win . With Yuriko Nishi hot behind her, puttign in a great performance for 2nd , KRP ace driver Caz Freschi getting his first taste of the podium for the season. Jafo Tendaze had a rough race finishing 4th , Ram Pharoah rounding out top 5.

Stang Voom and Ram Pharoah got the pass to the A group by finishing 1st and 2nd in a good B race, filled with lots of close racing , and lead changes. Ram led the entire race but Stang got by on the last lap for the win. RD Motorsports owner barely got 3rd with a very close finish with Suzy Cuddihy , only by .16 seconds.

Group B wasnt Stangs first race of the day . Stang ran strong in the Group C race, although Remon Franizzi put up a serious challenge late in race, Stang held on for the win. Ashe Revnik won a intense 3 way battle early in the race to get 2nd and the advance to B race. Racer's Island teamies Remon Franizzi and Brave Ashbourne finished a close 3rd and 4th .

Group D looked a bit like it did last week , with Indie driver Ford Roffo sitting on pole , but someone musta stuck a banana up this monkey's tail pipe cause well after green thats all he was still doing on pole , sitting . Perhaps the flashing green light that tells his simian mind to press the gas wasnt switched on in time ....did the phrase "stuck a booger" have any revelance or context here, we may never know.

The other 6 drivers werent concerned , instead they gunned it on go , with Remon Franizzi getting the all important early steady lead in this 10 lap race. 2nd was more of a battle and some good driving , with Tracy Torok, in 2nd the first couple laps then being passed by Alice vet driver Darko Revnik taking over for a few laps before getting into trouble finishing 5th , just behind a surging Nella Boccara.

Amber Raceway ace Tracy Torok got back by Darko lap 6 and held on for 2nd, Ace Crabe got 3rd. Round 3 from the claustorphobic Snowpeach in 2 weeks , with Annie in 1st place in points, Yuriko 2nd , Jafo Tendaze 3rd and Caz freschi 4th .

G1-GP Season Finale

Wednesday was race 10 of 10 at Spa Franchorchamps , not sure anyone got away without any scrapes... it was a doozy, heres a highlight reel of a little of the action .




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FormulaSL - Season 3 opener

Annie Gufler wins season opener at Mooz


It was a nice welcome back on saturday for everybody , and i mean everybody as 50 peeps crowded into Mooz to kick off the new season . This included 30 drivers eager to test their mettle in Second Lifes most prestigious racing series . One of the great things about RaceSL, and even more so this season ,it has collected some of the best participants of SL's other top notch racing leagues , including Racers Island fielding a team of 4, Amber Raceway , and for the first time our Italian friends from the Alice Racing league.

Any commentary on this race cannot avoid the fact that Annie Gufler of AM Pro dominated the days proceedings , grabbing pole position then skillfully running away with the 8 car Group A race, lapping the entire field .

But for my day personally it was certainly one of the greatest challenges in my own teams history and a day i am quite proud of my team mates. The qualify round only shined for Jafo Tendaze , 2 time RaceSL champion , who qualified 2nd behind Annie . Yuriko Nishi and myself suffered from nerves and or inclement weather to qualify 10th and 11th , putting us back in the middle of the field for the B group race.

The situation was not looking good , with veteran speedfreak Hotspot Racing Drivers Silk Bamboo and Suzy Cuddihy both qualifying into A group , along with AM Pro sticking 2 drivers into Group A with the brilliant qualifying run of Annie's vet teamate Fox Tommas. Already the obituary Archer Racing's record of 36 straight races in 1st place was going thru my head, as our backs were obviously up against the wall like at no other time in our year and a half history .

All there was left to do was to actualy race, all we could do was try our best to give the other teams a challenge. Either Yuriko or myself needed to come in 1st or 2nd in Group B race to advance on to A and attempt to defend our title . After that it was a bit of a blur to be honest , a nice start for me as i threaded the needle past cars in trouble to move into the lead, it felt good out there and i did what i had to do making as few mistakes as possible and winning the race, and as a nice added bonus Yuriko also ran a very good race coming in 2nd .

Although i do prefer to adjulate the accomplishments of my fellow competitors on this forum , i am quite proud that Archer was able to rise to the occaision , with Jafo coming in 2nd and Yuriko grabbing 3rd, securing us our 37th straight round in 1st place, but just 2 points ahead of the AM Pro team. With the whole of the season remaining i think this will be a continuing battle with the veteran AM Pro and Hotspot Racing teams , both not only worthy to knock us off the top but also deserving to do so .

Veteran Caz Freschi overcame some bad breaks during the race, included a few maulings by myself to put the new InDrive team of Greg Draymans Kokopelli racway and league into 4th place. But i think the most eyes were on the rookie Midnight Lotus team , led by dedicated RaceSL rookie Laney Recreant and a top performing Ashe Revnik, Midnight Lotus had a commendable day with Laney finishing 9th overall and Ashe finishing in the points in 13th after a great performance in the C race to advance up to the B race.

The skilled , and to be completely honest... often a crazy ... Racers Island team was led by veteran nutter Brave Ashbourne who ran a solid win in the C race , finishing 10th overall on the day , not far behind was Remon Franizzi in 12th .

The highlight of the Group D race was resident monkey and indie driver Ford Roffo who decisively led wire to wire. Ford then came in 5th in the Group C race. Another story of the day was Racers Island veteran Rattra Raymaker having computer problems and running the event on a backup computer, he did great coming in 2nd behind Ford in Group D and 4th in the C Group race.

Although SL wasnt too kind to us as far as lag , sometimes it was ok, sometimes it was just bad , the race was a great show of driving prowess and support, and the rest of the season is promising to be much the same, the next round is saturday the 28th at the Canyon raceway , with alot of drivers already looking to be in top form in early week testing .

Barcelona GP video

Heres my first attempt at making a highlight reel for our Rfactor league ..hope it works hehe

FSL 3, Heavy metal, and lots of stuff

Its been awhile since i posted here, but still been very busy in SL. Tommorow saturday march 21st is opening race of FormulaSL 3, word has it approx 36 drivers are signed up and ready to go. This of course includes Archer racing , Yuriko , Jafo and myself are prepared to brain each other in search of a season title, and the team as a whole hopes to capture its 4th RaceSL team championship.

Also in my time off , the G1-GP season has been progressing well, 3 races since my last post, a win for myself and 2 in a row for Sulla Looming, next wednesday is the season finale at Spa Franchorchamps , with several drivers points still very close. Im hoping at some point to be posting short highlight reels on Youtube, with links here on the blog.

Also a nice change for us , besides wheels , rubber, cars , bikes , motorsports....was a great Iron Maiden concert performed by Bad Ampitude at Renegades, a nice change of pace and a good time for everyone. My next post will be the race report for Round 1 at Mooz , good luck to all the teams and drivers this season , it should be a good one .

Nuerburg Grand Prix under the lights

Last wednesday was round 7 of the G1-GP Rfactor league, this time it was off to Nuerburg Germany for the longest round of the season , just 23 laps, but at more than 1:50 minutes a lap , the whole race took 45 minutes to drive. Also this time I sped up how fast the game time passed, so we started the race in the daylight and ended in the pitch dark .

10 drivers again this round , the horn sounded and we were off . Katier Reitveld, who qualified 4th , saw a opening turn 1 and took a bold dive at it , a risky move that could potentialy take out other drivers, but she executed it nicely , battling and banging side by side with Sulla Looming around turn 1 for 1st place, Sulla came out ahead, i found myself in 4th behind Caz Freschi after braking badly at turn 1.

Sulla moved away out in front , she had up to a 14 second lead at one point . Meanwhile Caz, myself , Yuriko and Jafo chased after Katier who was in 2nd. Caz took a turn too quick and I moved by , then passing Katier a bit later for the lead after Sulla had made a early pit stop .

There was alot of contact this race, with drivers banging it out side by side in some turns . I think one of the highlights of the race was Suku Mings performance. Suku was placed high after the dangerous turn 1 , but got bumped and spun out accidentaly by Jafo in turn 2 , Suku fell to 10th after this incident , same back luck she had last race at Monaco on the first lap.

Most of the race Suku was in no better than 8th place, but thru effort and perserverance managed to finish 5th for her 5th top 5 finish of season . Sulla led the race easily till she made a early pit lap 5 . I moved into the lead untill i pitted , then Caz took over.

Jafo had a fast 1st pitstop and was in 2nd place coming out , with myself trailing in 3rd. Sulla was back in the pack , but had a excelent strategy going and was biding her time . Slowly but sure light fell on the track, from day time , to twilight , then finaly darkness.

Lap 17 I was leading with Caz close behind in 2nd , and Sulla about 20 seconds behind in 3rd.

It was time for my 2nd pit , i pulled in and it was a race...this was my fast pitstop, 5 laps to go, no tire change, just gas . I pulled into pit lane and to my garage and stopped, 12 seconds was the time needed to give me the fuel to finish the race, i watched my dashboard display where i could see the list of drivers and their positions , being in 3rd, Sulla's time behind me quickly counted down towards 0....

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I could hear her coming down the front straight as my fuel was finishing , i peeled out and almost spun trying to get going , but was able to come out fairly close behind her, and the chase was on .

Caz was still way ahead in 1st place, but he still had to make his pitstop . He pitted that lap(18) and Sulla moved into 1st , with me close behind .

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It came down to a face off in the dark , and it was still growing darker, being around 9 or 10pm game time , everything became harder and harder to see, soon all anyone could see was what their headlights touched ...no high beams either at 170 mph. Soon the dark took its first casualties, lap 20 , Katier , who had run off track accidentaly , re-entered the track right behind Yuriko , just as Yuriko was braking hard for a turn , they collided and were both out of the race from damage.

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Sulla over ran a turn and went into grass allow in me to move by into first , and now i was being chased. Sulla hung on wonderfully in the increasing dark ,untill the end of lap 21 where it was my turn to over run a turn a bit, Sulla got by and hung on for the win , myself 2nd, Caz 3rd, Rattra finished 4th after Jafo crashed on the last lap when in 4th and Suku finished 5th.

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Round 7 takes us to the California desert and the high speed Laguna Seca track .

G1-GP at Monaco

This weeks race for the G1-GP series was one of the more anticipated of the season taking us to the almost mythicly tight streets of Monte Carlo. In preparation for the difficulty of this race, we had a 2 week break and a test race last week for this one .

I think the preparation paid off as many were in good form when it came down to qualify . Sulla

Looming got her 4th straight pole , myself 2nd and Caz Freschi 3rd , lining up a anticipated 20 lap dog fight , with all others more than willing to join .

But fate had it this wasnt to be... Both Sulla and Caz crashed on lap 1 , leaving me out front with Katier Reitveld in 2nd . Caz started off the incidents by solidly hitting the barrier tires on the left while exiting the tunnel chicane, unfortunately for Suku Ming she was also right there, hitting Caz and spinning around pointing the wrong way, like me at Mills , Suku was helpless to do more than watch the whole field pass her by while she got going again, falling from 4th to 10th .

Not long later up ahead Sulla entered a fast S turn too wide striking the outside wall and bouncing off to the perimeter guard railing , a spectacular crash .. where she even got some air this time. Both Caz and Sulla were forced to pit because of the damage .

Meanwhile up ahead, the field continued to race on . Jafo took over 2nd and Yuriko into 3rd after Katier spun out . They both hung on for a good portion of the race, in the mean time , both Sulla and Suku had been working their ways back up . Lap 16 , Sulla had caught back up to Yuriko and Jafo, Jafo pitted out of 2nd , and Yuriko wobbled coming out of turn 1 just a bit, but it was enough for Sulla to power her way by .

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Sulla hung on to get 2nd after falling to 10th place on lap 1 , Jafo had a solid race coming in 3rd, Suku also made a great come back after getting involved with the lap 1 incident , Katier also had a solid race getting 5th .

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We had a so far season high of 10 cars in this race, thanks to Suzy Cuddihy returning from a unplanned hiatus , wb Suzy... and thanks to our newest member YumYum Divesadero. Next week is Round #6 at Nuerburg , this next one will be the longest race of the season , and using game time speed up , will transition from daytime to nighttime during the course of the race.

MotoSL season 4 Awards

This last saturday the RaceSL comunity met at the RaceSL hall of fame facility at Misp for the official conclusion of MotoSL season4 . Everyone present came up and collected their hardware for individual and team placings .

Annie Gufler became the 4th person in 4 seasons to collect top rider award , while Archer racing collected our 3rd straight Team championship. Im sure most people are tired of seeing us up there collecting another one , but im savoring it, with the rise of competition , and the putting together of some top partnerships , each one maybe the last for us .

Big thanks to Les for this season , and everyone that has supported the league . Count Bayliss and Raver Bellow. Seems like the whole of the community is buzzing about the upcoming FormulaSL season , everyone still working out details , signing with sponsors , building vehicles , forming teams . Its looking like its gonna be a good one , with Annie Gufler looking to match Jafo Tendaze's record of 1 MotoSL and 1 FSL championship, only person to win one of each so far.

G1-GP Update

2 races have passed now in our Rfactor league season, so Im doing a little race report for these.. cause both were outstanding races , and it certainly can be seen each race that everyone is improving and the competition level is rising .

2 weeks ago was was race #3 at Silverstone . This one kept me on the edge of my seat for the whole 30 minute race. The first half of the race was Sulla , Caz and myself running away from the field , trading off leads . Sulla led at first for a good while , Caz who had made a very nice pass on myself taking over 2nd, passed Sulla after she spun out . I also got by Sulla and chased Caz untill the lap where we pitted, Caz spun and i was thru . After my pit Sulla was right on me , but i was able to pull away and hang on for my 3rd win. Caz got 2nd , and Sulla 3rd.

This week the race was at another fictional track... Mills Metropark built by the Rfactor team , they put alot of detail in their tracks , and made them challenging and fun. We will be racing a 3 of the fictional tracks this season , Toban, Mills and Orchard Lake .

Sulla landed her 3rd straight pole , Caz 2nd on grid , myself 3rd. This race was the debut of new driver Katier Reitveld , driving the Blue/White Thetford Lola Ex257 . Katier had a great 1st qualify round landing on 4th beside me .

Caz jumped the start , way soon hehe , he held up , but got a bad launch after lights went green, allowing myself and Sulla to get ahead. I think Caz was kicking himself over this as the racers accelerated thru the opening corners. Yuriko also got by Caz in turn 2, but came together with Katier and spun out . Caz moved into 3rd chasing Sulla and myself .

But the cost of a jump start is a drive thru pits penalty... a little break for Caz is that Mills pits is very short, this amounted to just a 10 second penalty , he came out from 3rd to 5th , right behind Rattra and Jafo .

Caz was able to get by them eventualy and back into 3rd. Meanwhile Sulla had spun out of the lead , allowing me to move up into 1st . I led untill after the pits when I ran over a rumble strip , my car is low to ground and i think for just a moment 3-4 of my wheels came off of ground and I had my only spin out of race .

But 1 spin was enough , Jafo and Caz drove by me , then next around corner was Sulla and Suku who passed as i was recovering , 1st to 5th . The last phase of the race was close between Jafo in lead, Caz and then Sulla 3rd . Sulla unfortunately was first out, in one of worst wrecks of season so far, took a hard spin at about 140 mph, and hit the wall front first at 100mph .

Jafo started to pull away a little from Caz in the closing laps , but Caz closed it in the last 2 laps . Turn 4 of the final lap , they both lost their cool a bit , both came in hot and braked hard....Jafo spun , and Caz hit him, but Caz was still pointing in the right direction and was able to slip ahead.

Caz grabbed his first win , Jafo his 2nd podium in 2nd place, Suku Ming who also ran a very good race finished 3rd . Next round of the season moves to the claustorphobic streets and alleys of Monaco , it what promises to be the hardest and possibly most trouble filled race of the season . Next week is just a practice race , leaving 2 weeks for this one so everyone is well prepared.

Caz Freschi on top step after his win at Mills Metropark

MotoSL Season finale at Mooz

Jafo Tendaze wins Round 12, Mooz Long Layout
Annie Gufler wins Rider Championship

19 riders made the finale of what has been a highly competitive season, that has had its share of dominations , hard spills , bad luck, good luck and close well ridden races . Jafo T. finally snapped his own personal run of bad luck and made it to the top step for the first time in the 4 month season, with a pole position making it the best attempt at a long shot upset championship as could be possible.

But Annie Gufler finished a respectable race in 3rd place , securing her as the 4th MotoSL champion in 4 seasons. Grats Annie , Grats Jafo on a very nice win and 2nd place overall season 4 . I somehow managed put 2 wheels on the track and with luck ended up 2nd in the race, my best finish of the season . Yuriko finished 4th in the Group A race, just 1 off a Archer podium sweep .

The rest of the field consisted of the Racer's Island vets Brave Ashbourne and Remon Franizzi , who finished the race 6th and 5th . Racer's island came on strong and are looking to be one of the top teams in the upcoming FormulaSL season 3 .

Other teams also shined this season besides Am Pro , Racers Island and Archer , namely BikeSites.com team , with a win and handfull of well deserved podiums it was great to see vets Moto Ware, Silk Bamboo and Suzy Cuddihy come on strong when given half of a chance.

Another good team this season that never realised their potential was the SLodcast team of Ram Pharoah and Sulla Looming . Another team that if was able to make every race could stake its claim amongst top teams , and these blokes are playing from England too .

Molly Fitzgerald has come a long way since her biddity friend Doll Kabuki got her hooked on Les Whites bad medicine, look for Molly to show up more often in the Group A dance as the seasons continue to progress , one of hardest working riders out there.

Annie Gufler had a outstanding season , with a 6 race sweep mid season that guaranteed her a first RaceSL title . Next up is FormulaSL and im sure Annie is feeling that once you have a collection, might as well add to it , Annie will saddle up this next RaceSL season as the person to beat , and i guess we'll have to see what she has to say about that on the track.

Am Pro had a franchise season , coming in 2nd overall in teams , and winning the driver championship. They have a legitimate chance to put together a team for FormulaSL to take the championship for teams and Driver . If Abacus Mimistrobell would visit from Never never land more often, maybe he could contribute to Annie and TFFOX's hard work .

The 6th complete RaceSL season is now in the books , now we enter pre-season for the 7th . Les is hard at work on a new car and new innovations , the stir for the next FormulaSL started even before MotoSL4 came to a close, and is promising to be another successfull campaign by RaceSL .

MotoSL 4 --- Round 11

Brave Ashbourne wins MotoSL PSU2 at Racers Island GP!!

This round of MotoSL has taken us to the beautiful Racers Island sim , where Eddie Mathieson runs several racings leagues on superb race tracks... stacked 7 high .
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The story of this round is unfortunately one i wasnt able to witness personally cause i was racing myself , but the Group A race started and stayed for awhile a 3 bike dogfight between Ram Pharoah, Brave Ashbourne and Moto Ware . Ram hung on untill lap 7 where he was overtaken by Brave , with Moto still in striking distance if either should fall .
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Ram retook the lead lap 10, but Brave again got ahead lap 11 and hung on despite Ram being right on his heels for the final laps . Big congrats to a hard working racer that deserves this win on his home turf .

Group B race was won by Ram Pharoah who had a steady hand today, he needed it with last races winner Silk Bamboo hoping for any kind of voodoo to help Ram fall, but he did not and prevailed , moving onto the Group A race.
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Another great story of the day was the Group C race , where long time racing vet Nella Boccara
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Group D was a 2 bike faceoff between Bikey Bekkers and Hakuna Albatross, Bikey prevailed and moved on to the Group C race. Next race is saturday January 31st at Mooz on the full layout. Its been a great season , in the closing races we are seeing new stars like Mooly Fitzgerald, Brave Ashbourne and Stang Voom staking their claims, and seasoned vets still riding solid.
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Annie Gufler has the season championship sewn up going into the final round , Annie will become the 4th MotoSL champion in 4 seasons , with the 2nd all time number of MotoSL wins in 1 season and overall . Season 1 champion Stillywack Stillman, still holds records of most win in single season and overall .
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Archer has also wrapped up the team championship, our first MotoSL team championship and 3rd overall in RaceSL . But this season has showed that there is several good teams ready to take it next season , including Bikersites.com, AM Pro, Racers Island and ZT Racing .
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Last wednesday was also race 2 of the G1-GP rfactor season , i managed to get another win, despite a late race kiss with the wall . Rattra scored his 2nd straight, 2nd place.. and Jafo came in 3rd.
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So far as the season is shaping up .. I think Sulla is so far in a class byherself , and once she can stay the course , she will start winning. Rattra , Yuriko and Suzy are the steady crew, placing high in the 2 races , payoff for their steady racing.
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Jafo and Suku are both talented enough that once they can keep all 4 pointing forward they will finish high. Caz is working hard to join any of the above categories, plus we will have new drivers Kiboe Munro and Eddie Mathieson joining us in upcomign races, making it a field of up to 10 ...Race 3, is 18 laps at Silverstone wednesday jan 28th .

Group1-GP season opener

In early december i had the idea of combining Second Life with a seperate racing simulation, having a pool of talented drivers from second life compete in a racing series that would be carried out both inside SL and the Rfactor racing game.

Finaly after a series of 5 practice races , we had a field of talented drivers and a 10 race schedule using high powered American Le Mans style cars. Race #1 was finaly set for Gille Villeneuve track in Montreal Canada .

We were plagued with some technical difficulties , but finally after some delay , a field of 8 was lined up on the grid for the 1st race of the series, these included , myself, Suku Ming, Sulla Looming , Jafo Tendaze, Yuriko Nishi, Suzy Cuddihy, Caz Freschi and Rattra Raymaker, champions and top notch drivers each one .

Nerves ran a bit high as the cars went off for the 22 lap race, Suku sitting in 2nd spot had a slow start , allowing Sulla Looming , who is a early favorite to do well in the series, to get by . Unforntunately Sulla spun in turn 3 and a close following Suku t-boned her, Sulla then hit a wall losing her rear wing . Sulla made a effort to continue , but had the whole track to drive around while damaged to reach the pits , finaly spinning out and being damaged beyond repair and the first casualty of the night .

2nd casulaty was lap 5 when Jafo T locked up and struck a wall , he also retired from the race when his car was beyond repair .
Although i was able to lead all 22 laps cleanly, the race was filled with several close battles, including early on between Ratta and Yuriko in a battle for 2nd , Rattra was able to show patience, and got by after Yuriko spun out .

Late in the race Suku and Caz batttled it out for 5th place , with Suku finaly prevailing in the last lap . Rattra ran a strong race finishing 2nd, Suzy Cuddihy grabbed the last spot on the podium for 3rd. Yuriko 4th .

In 1 week is Round #2 at Toban raceway , a fictional Rfactor track that should be a very challenging race, with several hard and fast turns for the drivers to negotiate in the 20 lap race. Its still early on and with a championship points scale made for a close season , everyone still has a good chance to come out on top in the end . Thanks to everyone participating .

MotoSL Round 10 and other stuff

Silk Bamboo wins Round 10 at RD Motorsports -Wide Track

22 riders came out saturday to watch BikerSites.com dominate the Group A and B races , ill save the formalities and cut right to it . AM PRO rider Annie Gufler grabbed her 3 podium of the season and had visions of a 7th straight win in her eyes...wether or not this would be a RaceSL record is up to debate due to incomplete MotoSL season 1 records , but still would be quite a feat .

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Annie started out well when the lights went out as usual, and it looked perhaps like she would 7 'peat, but something was different this time out . Although Annie had a 4 or 5 bike length lead , a determined cluster of riders was hot on her heels . 5 laps Annie led , then suddenly the crowd rose as one as she went down , when the smoke cleared , Silk Bamboo had moved from 4th to 1st with Jafo Tendaze and the the rest of the crowd chasing her close .

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But thats all anyone could do for the rest of the 20 lap race, chase her.. Jafo was close for 5 more laps before crashing , after that Silk was gone for her first win since MotoSL season 2 . After his fall on lap 10 Jafo and Stang Voom of Zero Tolerance battled it out for the 2nd spot .

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Jafo held him off for 9 more laps , but they came together going into turn 2 of the last lap, Jafo got the worst of it, getting hung up on the fence, Stang completed the lap and finished 2nd and his first MotoSL podium . Jafo finished 3rd, Motorato Ware 4th ...giving the BikerSites.com team the best showing of the day by a wide margin , Yuriko Nishi 5th, and Annie Gufler 6th . I was not witness to what became of Stang Vooms racing Speedos after finishing 2nd, but my guess is tongs and industrial grade solvent were involved .

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Motorato Ware dominated the Group B race getting the advance to Group A. Normaly i dont dwell on races i dont do so good , but this one was fun, i started 4th on the grid for the race and it developed into a close dogfight between myself and cross town rival Brave Ashbourne for 2nd place, for 9 of the 15 lap race we crossed the line only seperated by tenths of a second.

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I was trailing for 6 of those... finaly getting by him lap 12, at one point, I have no idea what happened , but Brave looked like a pop fly way up in the air , he manged to land and continue , but his line was a bit off thru the next 3 turns , and we both went into the fence at the turn 3 hairpin , i got going quicker and managed to finish the race 2nd, poor Brave stalled or something at the finish line and was passed by up and coming Whites Bikes phenom Molly Fitzgerald who got 3rd, Brave 4th , Ram Pharoah 5th and Abacus Mimistrobel 6th .

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the Group C race was another tear jerker for veteran BikerSites.com race Suzy Cuddihy, who steadily led the race for the first 7 laps before taking her only spill , allowing SlodCast chief Ram Pharoah by after he ran a flawless 2nd till then, Suzy got 2nd , AM PRO ride TFFOX Tommas 3rd.

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Group D was a flawless run by Rattra Raymaker , with a impressive 2nd place by veteran YumYum Divisadero , who has been missed as a top competitor this season . All in all it was a great day of racing , mucho thanko to Les White, next race is in 2 weeks ...where, has not been set in stone , but perhaps we will be at the Racers Island sim this time .

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After the MotoSL races saturday , I headed over to Kokopelli Raceway to participate in the Sportsman Late Model class race. 3 classes of cars run there on saturdays , the Spectator, Factory Stocks and Sportsman . It was good fun , a bit lengthy I will be honest , but my butt on the hard bleachers endured and I managed to win my race as pictured below .

The next post for this blog will be thursday or friday for a race summary of the Season opener of my own league , G1-GP Racing league. Hoping to have 8 or 9 top skill drivers competing for cash and a nice trophy at a virtual Canadian GP (Montreal). Below is a pic from our 5th and last practice race, featuring Sulla Looming spinning out in turn 1 of lap 1 , she recovered and came back to win in a race that was great fun ..stay tuned .