Chicago Cup

Wow! Now that's a race.
No cautions in 150 laps. I can't believe we did that. I mean, we had a few people almost lose control but they recovered and kept going. Nice job everyone!

It started out as a shootout racing Anton, Daniel, Jim, and Luis but Anton had a little trouble early on and almost lost control getting down on the apron but kept it straight courtesy of Jim's left side door.

With that almost wreck happening, Daniel and I broke away from the pack. We ran nose to tail, swapping the lead a few times before I decided it was best to follow Daniel and try to stretch out the lead before having to pit.

At lap 42 Daniel decided to pit but I had enough fuel and tires to go a little further, so I pushed it to lap 47 but I could have went a few laps longer if I needed to. After pitting, I realized I had lost a lot of time on track but as the green flag stayed out, I started to run down the leaders.

As everyone started their pit stop again, it started to look like we might go through another round green flag pit stops without the yellow flag coming out so I started planning for pitting a few laps later than my first pit stop so I could try to make it to the end without pitting again. I made it to lap 100 and I still had a few laps worth of gas left, not much tires but enough.

I made my run to the finish not knowing if we would get a late caution or not until I saw those that couldn't make it start pitting again. I started feeling like we would go all the way and then I noticed 2nd and 3rd started catching me. I had more than a 7 second lead when I noticed but they were coming fast. The two were Ellery and Luis. I started getting nervous because it was going to be close by the time we made it to the finish. Fortunately, they ran out of laps. When I took the white flag, I knew I had the win as long as I didn't do something stupid like spin. I didn't and took the checkered flag.

This was a very fun race, allowing everyone to put their setup to the test.

Also, congratulations to Luis on his first championship.

See you all at the next race!

this race was awesome! no cautions in 150 laps! different strategies and Tom did a great job, Ellery and I almost able to catch Tom in the last few laps but...

after 6 years and 6 runner-up, (4 Road Course and 2 Nascar) I finally got a championship!

thanks to the guys from Scuderia Sul-Brasil... and of course, R2P and DBF Motorsports for giving us this space for fun and competition.

going for another one now! :)

Congrats to Tom, Ellery & Luis for this race.

Congrats to Luis for his long overdue Points Championship and to Escuderia Sul-Brasil for the Team Championship. :)

The race for me started out well, I was keeping up to the lead pack for a change, but when I tried to go under Anton in turn 2 I guess he didn't know I was there or something and we made contact...twice. Sorry Anton.
That slowed me down a bit and when I went to let some drivers go by later on I smacked the outside wall pretty hard. The car steered a bit funny after that, so I had to pit earlier than I wanted to, but it was a good race anyway.

Great job on keeping it green guys!

Nice going guys - no cautions - very cool.

Luis - congrats on the Championship too:)