OSR League Update for March 14, 2017

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Just a quick update — I added one new rule to the League Rules page:

A visible car number is required for each participant.

Please keep your car numbers visible to avoid confusion.

Last Week’s Race Winners

Chris Roberts led every lap and was untouchable in Friday night’s OSR Modified race at USA International Speedway.

The Street Stock drivers ran 51 laps at Concord Speedway without a single caution. Ron Collinsworth had the race in hand, but somehow I snuck by on a pit stop. A few cars chose not to stop for tires. That put Nick Schaeffer in the lead. Nick led for 21 laps then I managed to get under him on a last lap effort to win the race.

AJ Rogers and Ron Collinsworth swapped the lead a few times in the early laps of the Late Model race at South Boston Speedway. As a result of the caution that fell on lap 24, I somehow took the lead. I went on to lead most of the race, but Royce Scrivano had wisely changed tires during one of the cautions. Royce ran me down and I knew I was done for. Besides, I was blinking a little so I moved up to let Royce go on by. When I moved up the car felt better so I just stayed up there and I saw Royce start to fade back a little, then I think he moved up to the high line too.

The caution came out again on lap 81, and I could not avoid some wrecked cars on the front stretch going into turn one, so that ended my race. Royce Scrivano went on to win in a car that looked a little bit beat up, but most of them did after that race.

All in all, it was the most fun I’ve had on iRacing in a long time. The car counts were great and the racing action was non-stop. I look forward to next week. 🙂

Coming Up

The OSR Modifieds head north for a late afternoon race at what could accurately be called their home track, Stafford Motor Speedway. This setup will be used: [wpfilebase tag=file id=2064 tpl=filebrowser /]. Modifieds run Friday night at 9:00 pm eastern.

Sunday night at 7:30 eastern, the Pro Street Stocks visit New Smyrna Speedway for a night race. Here’s the  setup: [wpfilebase tag=file id=2065 tpl=filebrowser /].

For our feature race of the weekend, the Late Model Stock Cars head for the hills of Bristol, Tennessee to compete on the high banks in a night race. That session gets under way Sunday night at 9:00 pm. We will use this setup: [wpfilebase tag=file id=2066 tpl=filebrowser /]. Practicing for this race is a great idea. You really have to take it easy on the tires at Bristol.

OSR League Crowns 2017 Season 1 Champions

Another season has come to an end in the Old School Racing Motorsports Leagues. I want to congratulate the champions this season on a job well done. I look forward to next season and two nights of fun each and every week.

Mike Bean - OSR Modified Champion - 2017 Season 1
Mike Bean – OSR Modified Champion – 2017 Season 1

This season was actually split into two seasons, but Mike Bean won the OSR Modified Championship in both of them. So either way you look at it, Mike is the overall 2017 Season 1 champ.

Mike celebrated one race win during the season, at Concord Speedway. Concord is a tough little track in any car.

Here are the top five in the OSR Modified point standings.

  1. Mike Bean
  2.  Ron Collinsworth
  3. Donny Moore
  4. Jeff Kendrick
  5. David Desjardins
Ron Collinsworth - OSR Dirt Champion - 2017 Season 1
Ron Collinsworth – OSR Dirt Champion – 2017 Season 1

Ron Collinsworth ran every race in the new OSR Dirt League. We did some format testing (figuring out iRacing tournaments) and Ron pretty much dominated. We ran four races on some of the shortest tracks on the service. It was a lot of fun and it was definitely old school with two heats and a feature in the street stocks.Ron celebrated three heat race wins and one feature win during the season.

Here are the top 5 in the OSR Dirt League point standings.

  1. Ron Collinsworth
  2. Jeff Kendrick
  3. Scott Anders
  4. Jeff Hollowell
  5. John Ernst

If you’re looking for the OSR Dirt standings on the league page, try here instead.

Looking forward to next season? You can find the 2017 Season 2 schedule here.