Awesome opening weekend for RCFFS
The weather was a little challenging with cold and then rain but it was all sunshine by Sunday afternoon. No denying that new driver, 19 yo Garrett Dettman did Mike Rand’s #37 Crossle-Honda proud with three wins. With all due modesty (yeah, a modest FF driver?) maybe the best race was the Sunday afternoon final. Danny Pyanowski and I passed pole-sitter Garrett at the start going into turn 4 seeing who could brake late, later and latest. It was three wide but everyone gave just enough room for it to all work out. A battle royal developed but unfortunately Danny high-sided the curb at turn 10, damaging his left side suspension and coming to a stop bringing out a full course yellow. It was then up to me to keep “the kid” honest and I diced with him the whole distance. In the end he won by 1.4 seconds and 0.2 second faster best lap.
Mark Kingham had a good first race weekend. He has a pretty good coach of course.
Unfortunately my GoPro batteries didn’t survive my almost two year layoff so I didn’t get any video.
On a personal note, it was my first race after having 12 hour cancer surgery December 21, 2020 and then spending 2021recovering. I’m happy to be alive and thrilled to be dicing it out at the front.
Let’s get those cars ready for round two at PittRace.
Great news. Thanks for the update
Dave,
so happy to hear from you doing so well. Congratulations to you and your medical team. Car seems to be sorted ! Well done to all who went to M-O.
Steve
Dave what a great summary
This is my first post on Apex and Mid-Ohio was the first RCFFS race for me and my son Garrett. As you know, we are both new to competitive racing. The first race weekend was a blast and personally speaking, meeting each of you was an honor and a pleasure. Garrett and I look forward to the next race weekends on the calendar.
Yes, Garrett had a very good opening weekend. He has worked hard to build his skills on iRacing and he's learned as much as he could about Mike Rand's car over the last 5 weeks. Dave you were right on, the best race upfront was race 3 between Danny, Garrett and yourself. I have Garrett's cam footage in the attached link that shows the 3 wide racing in 4 & 5 twice! That's where I was positioned during the race, so I caught it live as well. Great racing!
Thanks so much everyone for your kindness and acceptance into your circle...looking forward to many more good times.
Enjoy! https://youtu.be/VImupmaDl1g