GT Endurance VRS Series - Road America

The 4 Stooges Race Team brought 2 cars to the VRS GT3 Endurance race at Road America.  Team Depends with Frank Butler and Jerry Kerr and Team Black with Eugene Clark and Robert Love.  Both teams chose not to Qualify but to start from the back of the field of 55 teams in this 4th split.  Team Black had a great run and finished 11th while Team Depends had some issues late in the race and finished in 23rd.  They were DQ'd for to many incidents after running as high as 16th.  Our next race is at Australia's Winton Raceway.  Can't wait for this one!!!

GT Endurance VRS Series - Barber Motorsports Park - Full Course

On April 16, 2022 - the VRS Endurance race at Barber Motorsports Park began with the Four Stooges race team fielding one car.  Team Black this week had Wally, Karl, and Jerry as drivers.  Jerry started us off with about 40 minutes of decent laps until a flub in turn 2 started the incidents and long pit stop of 8 minutes for repairs.  Wally took over and completed his stint with zero incidents and handed the car over to Karl to take the team home to the finish.  An incident in the chicane with a very slow car set Karl on his way to a 5 incident stint.  This concentration on the incidents is intentional since a 12 incident race is actually one of our better team races - after all we did not have a drive through or get DQ'd.  A smooth race to our 22nd place finish in a field of 50 cars.

Next race will be at Road America.

VRS GT3 Endurance race at Nurburgring Combined - Gesamtstrecke 24h

Hey - guess what?  It's a night race at Nurburgring.

3 hours in the dark was no problem for the 4 Stooges Team Red of Karl and Doug.  With only 4 incidents they tamed the course and finished in 19th place.  Wally and new team member Eugene Clark brought Team Black in at 29th place.  Our other new member Frank Butler teamed with JC and Jerry over on Team Depends and they finished in 32nd.  Whether caused by someone else or self inflicted, there was lots of down time for repairs.  Thus limiting the number of laps completed and in Jerry and Frank's case no lap times recorded.  A tip of the 'ol hat to Karl for completing 13 laps with no incidents (that is until lap 14)  Way to go Paaaal!

Our next challenge is Barber Motorsports Park - Good Luck Stooges!!!!

VRS GT3 Endurance Race at Daytona Road Course

Saturday April 2, 2022 the Four Stooges Team Black competed in the VRS GT3 Endurance race at the Daytona Road Course.  An entry list of over 200 teams meant a 4 race split.  Team Black was placed in the 4th split with 55 entries.  Running a consistent race with only 16 incidents Team Black finished in 16th place.

On April 9th the team will race at Nurburgring combined - Gesamtstrecke 24h which will be huge challenge.

RACE RESULTS

TEAM SEASON STANDINGS

Incident video on the Four Stooges YouTube page will be posted soon!

VRS GT3 Endurance race at Circuit Zolder

 

Todays VRS GT3 Endurance race was at Circuit Zolder in Belgium.  A little under 2 and a half miles long it was a challenge as traffic was horrible - imagine a California freeway with a bunch of bad drivers, you know like a normal freeway commute in LA or SF.  Anyway the teams did suffer many incident points effecting each drivers iRacing and safety ranking.  Team Black overcame some early incidents and finished 32 while Team Depends finished in 38th after being DQ'd due to exceeding the incident limits.

A total of 56 teams were entered in what ended up a single split.  The 12 hours of Sebring obviously had an impact on the total entries.  This had us in a race with a strength of field rating of 1725 vs most of our splits being around 1200.

Next week we travel to Daytona Beach Florida for the Daytona Road Course and it's high speeds and big banks.

                  Race Results

Team Ranking

 

VRS GT3 Endurance Race at Sebring - 3/13/2022

 

Todays 3 hour endurance race started off with a BANG! for both teams.  The accordion effect on the pace lap resulted in damage to both cars - Starting at the rear didn't minimize the opening lap damage.  Upon review it seems the front row cars were lagging far behind the pace car and then tried to catch the pace car just before it left the track.  They Slowed down and the cars behind began to hit their brakes and it just went back to the last row with numerous cars suffering front and rear body damage - including our two cars.

In spite of this start, Team Depends finished a highly fought for 18th place and Team Black with great tenacity finished in 26th.

Next we come back to Sebring for the 12 hour race on March 25th.  Then on Saturday another 3 hour endurance race at Zolder.  Season 2 is off and running.