It's been 5 and half years since Vaderâ„¢ Trophy Racing closed the doors of its successful GTP endurance racing programme, but for one race only WE'RE BACK*!
There's been thoughts of a reunion race of some sort for a couple of months now, and as iRacing's Road Warrior Series kicks off with the Daytona 24 hours later today, we thought it the ideal opportunity to make it happen.
The race consists of:
* HPD ARX-01c prototype (our chosen, particularly fragile torpedo)
* Ruf RT 12R (a tweaked Porsche 911)
* BMW Z4 GT3
* McLaren MP4-12c GT3
* Ford GT
We're all British for this race, as Neil Pearson's pedals are broken, Esben Tipple's too busy until the summer and Jannis Koopmann ran off years ago. No Ian Woollam or Dave Ellis** either, sadly. A four man, one car team consisting of Neil Stratton, Richard Dickson, Graham Bridgett and myself.
With Rich starting, I'm doing the second stint at around 2:40 to 3:30pm, and without our resident Aussie (Neil Pearson), I picked the loose straw and also get to do the graveyard stint at 1:30 to 3:10am, and then 5:40 to 6:30 am. If all goes to plan, Rich will be bringing across the line at 1pm on Sunday. All times GMT.
The race itself kicks off today at 1pm GMT, and I've set up a Twitch account to stream the bits where I'm awake (even when I'm not driving). For those interested in tuning in:
Link:
http://www.twitch.tv/this_is_gavTeam: Vader Trophy Racing
Time: 1pm start until around 5pm, then 1:30am until chequered flag (GMT)
Notes: Teamspeak on, language warning, British humour possible
iRacing's 24 Hour promo video:
* There may be other races if we felt this one was more fun than pain.
** Some may have tuned in to our radio broadcast the last time we raced at Daytona, around 8 years ago. Dave and I shared a car, and together with our other car, spent the entire race taking the proverbial out of the newly formed and rubbish Russian 36 Team, who, it later turned out, had been listening to our radio all along...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/31/2015 09:48AM by gav.