EZT City Car Challenge Cup Race 1 - Maple Valley Short

I will miss this one. Family plans.

Welcome to Maple Valley, the first race of the season! Race 1 is on Mother's Day. Should we postpone the race or race anyway?

Postpone!!!!! I love this track and don't wanna miss it!

My plans are for earlier in the day. Race anyways. Of course if you postpone it, I will not have any issues with that.

Postpone

Might as well postpone, we apologize the oversight on the date. The race schedule will reflect the changes ASAP once a decision is made.

Is the practice race still tonight?

Yup I'm still holding it for sure

Race 1 has been postponed due to the Mother's Day holiday. Race 1 will now be on May 19th. The schedule in the rules and regs has been updated. There will be a practice race this weekend for all who are interested.

Have a Happy Mother's Day and see you on the 19th!

Ok. Thanks for the early heads up

I have a dog agility trial on the 19th. Send me a invite I might be back in time for the race

What are you guys getting for times on Maple Valley short, I know Bob is down around 54:2xx I'm at a 54.357

Low 54's is a good time, DJ.

A reminder to all who are planning on running as a team, you need to post your team info before the first race.

With a nearly perfect run up and near perfect lines you can dip into the 53's
Just barely

54.2's are good for me as of now.

Got into the 54.3's last night. Anyone up for City Car practice tonight?

EZT uncabunca wrote:

Got into the 54.3's last night. Anyone up for City Car practice tonight?

I'll most likely be on tonight.

ITS TIME.....Lets have some fun.

Enjoyed the race tonight, thanks for hosting!

Quite possibly the best race I have ever run... Was able to keep up with(for the most part) and stay in front of drivers that are much better than me.
Pleasantly surprised.

Apologies everyone. Just got home. An unexpected 2 1/2 hour drive halfway to Chicago to pick up my son and his best fiend who's car broke down. Just they way I wanted to spend my only day off.

EZT Strumlord wrote:

Apologies everyone. Just got home. An unexpected 2 1/2 hour drive halfway to Chicago to pick up my son and his best fiend who's car broke down. Just they way I wanted to spend my only day off.

No need to apologize Strum, family (especially the kids) come first. I would have done the same .

EZT Puckhead wrote:

EZT Strumlord wrote:

Apologies everyone. Just got home. An unexpected 2 1/2 hour drive halfway to Chicago to pick up my son and his best fiend who's car broke down. Just they way I wanted to spend my only day off.

No need to apologize Strum, family (especially the kids) come first. I would have done the same .

+1

Did anyone save the replays?

I have the replay for lobby two.

Hey guys. I know i have not been on since Saturday last week but I am itching to race again. Missed tonight due to spontaneous family dinner.

It's all good, Virality. See you next week.

I got lobby 1 replay I'll send it to you later today unca

Great race last night! Had my personal best in qualifying and then beat that in the race! Started second next to Takumi, on his left. Got too wide after the sweeper and got bumped out of the way (seemingly), falling back to fourth or fifth. Then, on Lap 2, did even better by going too wide and onto the grass on the sweeper. That dropped me back to last. And, realizing momentum was everything here, I figured I was done. Unfortunately for Wheelwash, he must have liked my move because he repeated it a few laps later and traded me for last place. It was then I decided to hunker down, hit my marks and try to be as smooth as possible to see if any other positions can be acheived. Much to my excitement, a combination of better laps and slight errors by the guys ahead of me, I was able to pass not only Unca, but Shinach as well--which put me into sixth. Though neither Shinach nor Unca took the passing lying down. There was some very close (i.e. slight paint trading) racing between the three of us. So, had I not gone off early on, who knows where things would have ended up. Awesome race all the way around! Was nice to be racing with everyone again!

EZT Neo 45 wrote:

got bumped out of the way (seemingly) by Bob

Wasn't me you and Puck kept hitting one another like 5 or 6 times in the opening lap. I watched the replay for a bit before I got off for the night

No worries. Changed it so no one is mentioned. Didn't mean to offend. So sorry.

No offense just saying

Sent you the replay for lobby dos unca.

bobwithajob wrote:

No offense just saying

Funny part is I watched the replay a couple times and never realized it was Puckhead. D'oh!

I had a great race. I was not as practiced as I should have been. Started on pole in lobby 2 and left. Mako put in a good effort, but I started to slowly pull away on lap 3 or 4 edging the distance after the last lap to 8 seconds or so. It felt really good to have a good race. First lobby win with the wheel, and I was very consistant. Something I have been lacking with the wheel so far. Thanks for putting this series on, I will see you guys next race. Hoping to make room one this time.

Yeah, good job Gashi. This series may be just the thing for helping with the wheel chops.

I had a very boring race.... I hope next race there is more door to door racing.

Video of lobby two action is posted in the Pics/Video section for anyone interested.

EZT XessIVLife wrote:

I got lobby 1 replay I'll send it to you later today unca

Don't forget!