Thanks man. And sometimes it just can't be helped. Sure I'll be wheel to wheel with you again soon.
First off I want to thank everyone for the kind words towards myself and this race series. There was a lot of work involved in figuring out some rules and regulations to make it a fair event for all and I must say that it definitely all paid off. This series featured lots of closely matched racing and driver parity. 6 different race winners in 9 races shows you how close things were! All things considered the final points standings were fairly close, especially when you take note that guys like Feldynn, TunaPhreak, nosocks, WyldAnimal and dlrws6 all missed at least one race. We all battled through the occasional network disconnection or lag issue but much like mechanical failures in real life that is part of racing! The extreme use (I don't recall any other series with such high penalties) of ballast was perhaps one of the biggest keys to keeping the racing equal and I hope everyone appreciated it. The combination of fast tire/fuel consumption and race lengths led to pit stop strategy playing a key role at times. I know at least 4 or 5 of us cut it too close and ran out of fuel at one time or another. Twists like this keep things interesting.
I want to give special mention to TunaPhreak, as he helped me plan and set up regulations for this race. He doesn't post on here much but he spent almost as much time testing cars (to check equality) as I did, with at least a dozen practice races between the two of us to check tire wear, etc. He was also very helpful with setting up the ballast system. So thanks again.
I really like the concept of running 2 or 3 completely stock vehicles in a race series. It equalizes things a bit and helps people focus on just their driving, not continually working on a car set up. I feel like this series was a great send off of sorts for Gran Turismo 5 and in the future I will work to formulate another series similar to this one in GT6. A great thanks to everyone that participated in this series, as a great series formula is nothing without participants. Also a thanks to cr0wlft0fmurder, DudeTuna, metalfreak1520, RickS95 and mmacek96 for making the few races you could; I know scheduling is difficult.
Again, so glad everyone enjoyed this! I'm also 100% open to constructive criticism for anything that I could improve for a series in the future.
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