This is going to be an unusually detailed race report. One thing I learned in this race is that my video capture device will not record for 90 minutes. I’m not sure why. I hope to have it figured out before the next endurance race, but I’m afraid that I just won’t be able to […]
Category Archives: Road Racing
90-Minutes of Daytona
I love Daytona, even though it really isn’t a very interesting track, and even though last season, my car was too underpowered to be overly competitive. I guess it’s because I have so many real life memories at Daytona, and having a higher powered car for this race doesn’t hurt either. This season, I’ll be […]
Yas Marina Circuit (Season 2 Race 2)
The race at Yas Marina Circuit was not what I had hoped for. My BMW M4 drove horribly. In practice yesterday, the car felt solid and predictable. It was a joy to drive. For whatever reason, today, it understeered in one corner and oversteered in the next. I made an adjustment to the front anti-sway […]
Next Stop: Yas Marina
After a good showing at Dubai Circuit of the Emirates, the racing season moves on to UAE and the Yas Marina Circuit. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the track, never even having glanced it, but was looking forward to giving it a go. Yas Marina is an odd racetrack to my eye. It […]
Dubai Circuit of the Emirates (Season 2 Race1)
Let’s start with the good news. I started 13th and finished 4th. By any measure, that’s a good day’s work. For most of the race, I drove well, and I had the fastest lap of the race. All of that is great. But as usual, I’m more focused on the bad news, so let’s take […]
Racing in the Desert
Welcome to Season Two of Vagabond Racer. This season, we’re going to visit a variety of international tracks, and we’re going to mix in sprint races, doubleheaders, and endurance races. The first track we’ll visit is Circuit of the Emirates in Dubai. I was surprised to learn that Circuit of the Emirates is not a […]
Looking Back, Moving Forward
When I started this sim racing journey several months ago, I did so kind of as an experiment. I had heard of Forza Motorsport 7, Asseto Corso Competizion, and iRacing, but I had never played any of them. Several years ago, I played around with Forza Motorsports 5, but that was the extent of my […]
Sebring International Raceway – Race #2
For only the fourth time this season, I finished out of the points in race #2 at Sebring. It was really a pretty uneventful race for the first eight laps. I started Q15 and gained a couple of spots in the first few turns on lap one, only to lose them again on lap two. […]
Sebring International Raceway – Race #1
Race #1 at Sebring was what I would refer to as a solid, unspectacular race. Nothing great happened, and nothing too bad happened. That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a challenging race. To be sure, it was. But I didn’t make an big mistakes, and I didn’t make any big moves. To be honest, from […]
Labor Day Weekend at Sebring International Raceway
If you’ve never been to Sebring International Raceway, you might be surprised to learn that it sits in the middle of nowhere. The track started life as Hendricks Army Airfield, where military pilots trained in B-17s during World War II. Some of the concrete runways from the old airfield still make up the track. The […]