AC - Suzuka - Ford Escort 78 DRM - Special Event - SRO

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Nov 24, 2020 at 2:59 AM
Posted By Jos Ogos

"I did my job yesterday". This is probably how someone doing this for a living would rate the race I did yesterday. I wasn't the fastest div2 car on the track but managed a very consistent pace and defended well the P1 gift that @Mac Shepherd gave me yesterday against @Toni Talvitie, Mac and @John vd Geest 's attacks robustly. I'm really sorry for Mac. She had a brutal race pace. Totally unreachable for any of the other div2 cars on the track and many of the div1s! Perhaps, I'd say, too fast, if that makes sense in a racing context. Watching the replay, it appears Mac's car was very tricky to drive at times. Maybe the setup was very fast but difficult to handle and Suzuka is not very forgiving in an hour race. I think that car could have spared 0.5secs per lap (or more) and still would have won the race comfortably yesterday, although getting that balance right is pretty difficult especially considering Toni's qualy lap (was that a 2:06!?). It wasn't only those mistakes and spins, I think Mac could have recovered from them and catch with John and me, the already mentioned incident with @Mark Johnson added injury to insult and I think there went Mac's hope for a maiden win at SRO. I'm sure this is coming soon Mac, that fantastic pace will be rewarded sooner rather than later.
Congrats to @Filip Stoyanovich, @Laurent Londes and @Phil Brown for the podium on div1 (you continue to get very little broadcast time guys... keeping 10 secs gap between cars is not good for sponsors!

You may consider lifting the throttle a bit at times and allowing for some chasing and attacks on div1 as well... :eek:

). This would give @Caitlin Penny a reason to show more of your races. Thanks a lot to Caitlin for a great stream and commentary (good to see you corrected that reference to the incident at Nords with Mac

). And congrats to John for a great chase and Mac for the podium.
Finally a special mention to @Maxime Tendil, my teammate at Crank of Brothers, this new team that completed its first race yesterday at Suzuka. His setup was critical for the win and he was himself close to P3. Not a bad way to start for the team.
Thanks for setting this up John and see you on Thursday at Sebring.
Here the race as streamed by SRO (Caitlin):

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AC - Suzuka - Ford Escort 78 DRM - Special Event - SRO