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. I settled in and ran in 16th for most of the rest of race. For a couple of laps, I was gaining on the Afla Romeo Guilia, and finally caught him in turn 9 on lap nine. I had been fairly close behind him on the previous two laps and had seen him roll through the turn each time. But on lap nine, he hit the brakes, and I rear-ended him really hard. We both continued, and I passed him a short time later, but I don’t understand why cars sometimes brake so hard in turns for no reason. It’s just one of the odd quirks with Forza Motorsports 7.
Ultimately, I finished the race P15, which was a rather anti-climactic end to an otherwise spectacular season. I’ll have some thoughts on the season—what went right and what went wrong—in a future post. For now, I’m celebrating a dominant season.
Here are the final points standings for all drivers:
- Lou Mindar (313 pts)
- Callie Carr (188 Pts)
- (tie) John Pettibone (175 pts)
- (tie) Alex Ravarito (175 pts)
- Hugh Navarro (160 pts)
- Don McGowan (146 pts)
- Richard Chan (143 pts)
- Peter Ward Jr (129 pts)
- Pierre Blasno (125 pts)
- Tak Tamaguchi (122 pts)
- D.R. “Doc” Massey (117 pts)
- Samantha Downing (97 pts)
- Quint Blackmore (96 pts)
- Claudio Naruda (95 pts)
- Julio Sanchez-Romero (92 pts)
- Gonzalo Perez (91 pts)
- Tyler Jones (82 pts)
- Sarah Stockdale (80 pts)
- Garth Westbrook (76 pts)
- Dempsey Marquardt (72 pts)
- Jay Howell (71 pts)
- Justin Hagan (69 pts)
- Joseph Tortelli (42 pts)
- John Noggle (41 pts)
- Thomas Suzuki (32 pts)
- Brent Post (6 pts)