VRS Endurance Race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Grand Prix Pits

 Once again the Four Stooges Race Team tackled the weekly 3 hour VRS GT3 endurance race.  This week at Spa-Francorchamps.  We chose to pass on qualifying and to start at the rear.  Team Black (Wally and JC) were quickly victims of trouble and had to spend repair time in the pits.  Team Depends (Karl and Jerry) escaped damage incidents until lap 48 when Jerry was hit.  Considering the down times and problems both teams came back to finish strong.  Team Depends finishing 16th and Team Black coming home 27th.  Data below:

This is our Teams 3rd race of the 7 races this season.  Team standings in the series are below:

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IMSA Daytona 24 at the Daytona International Speedway - Road Course

 It was an exciting 24 hour day for the Four Stooges Race Team at the Daytona Road Course as the team conquered the track in their Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo.  For this challenge it took superhero like efforts from each team member to get ready for the 24 hour endurance.  Extra practice piled on top of our normal weekly races and practices.  Doug making that extra effort to raise his iRacing road course license.  Karl practicing for both teams with which he would race.  Wally, JC, and Wendell working with Jerry to improve his road skills as we finalized the setup for the team.

This was a total team effort for over 3 weeks and finalized by our 16th place finish.  For me it solidified the efforts we have made in the previous 3 hour endurance races.

I know that these numbers are posted below but some deserve to be highlighted - Wally drove a total of 172 laps. Doug drove 126 laps with ZERO Incidents.  Karl and Wendell had only 1 incident each. These efforts combined to only 29 incidents for the team in our 749 completed laps.  Wendell had fastest race lap at 1:45.668.

Everybody raised their Safety rating with Karl reaching that magical 499 number.  I'm sure there were a couple if license promotions thrown into the mix with all of the 400 plus safety ratings.

Thanks to Wally and Wendell for the efforts to get the team back in the race when Jerry's internet failed during his second drive.  The comradery displayed as each external force tried to derail our efforts demonstrated the true value of our friendships.  Thank you to one and all and Congratulations!!!

   

 

GT3 Endurance VRS Series - Silverstone Circuit - Grand Prix

 January 15th found the 4 Stooges Race Team at the Silverstone Circuit in the UK.  Overall it was a very good day for the team as Team Black with JC and Wally finished 17th.  An excellent race by both drivers.  Team Depends finished a respectful 27th with Karl, Wendell and Jerry.  A very good comeback after an early incident.  This 3 hour endurance race is just a precursor to next weeks 24 hours at Daytona marathon. We go forward with positive anticipation following today's results.  Congratulations to every team member.

Season standings for the Teams

VRS GT3 RACE AT PHILLIPS ISLAND

 Today's race results for the 4 Stooges Race Teams. 

The Depends team finished 23rd and Team Black finished 31st.  A really good day for our teams.  Wally had the fastest lap at 1:29.03 on lap 81.  JC was the only driver with zero incidents which resulted in the largest Safety Rating gain at 24 points. Thanks to Robert and Wendell for joining the team today.  Next week is Silverstone then on to Daytona 24 hours.

Season standings for the teams.

The New Year

 Happy New Year to All.

Following our 3 week break, our next endurance race will be at Phillip Island on January 8th.  Watch our discord channel for updates on practice sessions.

Correction to the schedule

 The first race is not at Daytona, it is at Knockhill.  All the others on the old schedule look the same.

  

iRacing 2022 Season 1 - Race Schedule for VRS GT3 Endurance Series

The new GT3 race schedule is here:

Week 1 (2021-12-18) Daytona International Speedway - Road Course 180 mins

Week 2 (2021-12-25) Circuit Park Zandvoort - Grand Prix 180 mins

Week 3 (2022-01-01) Red Bull Ring - Grand Prix 180 mins

Week 4 (2022-01-08) Phillip Island Circuit 180 mins

Week 5 (2022-01-15) Silverstone Circuit - Grand Prix 180 mins

Week 6 (2022-01-22) Sebring International Raceway - International180 mins

Week 7 (2022-01-29) Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Grand Prix Pits 180 mins

Week 8 (2022-02-05) Detroit Grand Prix at Belle Isle - Belle Isle 180 mins

Week 9 (2022-02-12) Autodromo Nazionale Monza - Grand Prix 180 mins

Week 10 (2022-02-19) Watkins Glen International - Boot 180 mins

Week 11 (2022-02-26) Mount Panorama Circuit 180 mins

Week 12 (2022-03-05) Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari - Grand Prix 180 mins

Our plans are to run all of these races during the normal Saturday time frame.  In addition we will run the Daytona 24 hours which I anticipate will be run on Jan 22 and 23rd.  This will conflict with the Sebring race in the schedule above.  I'm sure we can figure a way to run both races with some help from our friends.  Our experience at this race will help us to decide on which other 6, 12, or 24 hour races we enter.