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So looks like we've got 5, more or less. So I was thinking I could go over to the Ford with @slowbird and then @iron1c, @khann & @sebw in the DP?

Yeah Group B, am I right?

I updated the first post, title and sign-up sheet for the 12 Hours of Sebring which is happening March 12th.

Phew this is a long one. Monte Carlo I just went through to survive, but actually felt good in the non-ice parts. But Sweden I was able to keep on it. Did have a big moment though. Survived and kept on going though.

I finished. We'll say that was an achievement after what happened in the last stage.

FYI the GB Dirt Rally league is going again over here.

@phouchg: Yeah that was me at the beginning there. I was just cruising there behind you. I thought everyone in our race that had survived that lap 4 mess had the same idea of just make it around but I saw someone got into you there in front of us. Your video showed it was pretty unnecessary too. Bummer.

@phouchg: Ah man that was almost something out of formula D around those tires. ;)
Great job in your split. Also your teammate has an awesome wheel.

Time to see how much safety rating we can lose in BES around Bathurst.

Thanks for the GB iRacing team mention. We have our wrapup of the event over here.

The Giant Bomb team finished the 2016 iRacing Daytona 24 hours in 9th place out of 23 in class and 20th out of 42 total cars. It was a crazy start of the race because as we've come to expect this season, the iRacing web servers decided it was going to back to sleep and not let anyone on the site. With over 500 teams competing they might have a good excuse for this event, but still a bad time to die.

We started the race ok with only a plan of staying it and making it to the finish. If we ended up racing for a position, great. Well on the 3rd stint I took over and the thing we were trying to avoid happened. I was coming around turn one and a car had spun and was along the inside of the exit of turn 1. He appeared to be back going the right direction and was going to stay to the left. Well he went right, across the track, into our left front.

After about 16 minutes of repairs we were in the neighborhood of 8 laps down from the accident. The front body work was a bit damaged but didn't seem too bad and the handling was pretty close to normal. The wheel was straight at least. After it was all said and done we'd probably guess it put us .5 to 1.5 seconds down per lap on time. Problem was this was only in hour 2. We continued on for 22 more hours though and worked our way up to 9th.

We had expected other teams in the GT field to maybe have more problems but it was a solid bunch. Everyone in the top 10 had a mostly clean race and even though we ran the rest of the race with only one spin we couldn't make up enough time to move up any further.

The whole team found ways to entertain ourselves though. We had the real Nascar/IMSA/Indycar driver AJ Allmendinger in our race so everytime he would pass us (He was in the faster prototype class so it happened a lot) @Trace would welcome us and the stream to the "Dinger Zone, brought to you by AutoZone." Unfortunately all good things must pass and their car found some trouble and ended on their roof.

We had a great time and I had a great time too. I feel bummed that I was in the car when we had our accident, but it happens. It's endurance racing. Thanks to the team. Especially to @khann, @sebw from those large islands down under who were able to put in our overnight US time laps. We had @iron1c representing the eurozone and then we had @mouse, @slowbird and myself in the red, white and blue. Special thanks to @Trace again for streaming and keeping us entertained.

Since this might be the last time we drive this car in a team event, we finished this the only way we could. Seb did donuts until the engine blew up.