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On the podium in Sebring
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- Written by Jan Bronee
The first race in the NEO Endurance series was a great success for our little team. We finished on the second place, which far exceeded our expectations. Karl qualified the car 7’Th in an extremely close qualification.
The race was started and Karl and Dave was able to work their way up through the class and after some 3 hours, I took over the car in second place. From here, I just focused on bringing the car safely home. On the last lap of my stint, I was overtaken, and thus we were down in third.
However, the two PRO guys took over from here and in the dying minutes of the race, we were able to regain the second place after 6 hours of exciting multiclass racing.
Here is a link to the Dart Frogs directors cut version of the 6-hour coverage by Racespot boiled down to 47 minutes.
Final results:
Here comes The Dart Frogs
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- Written by Jan Bronee
In order to participate in the upcoming NEO Endurance Series (GTC Class) we have formed a new PRO/AM team. The NEO Endurance series will consist of five 6-hour races on legendary racetracks like Sebring, SPA and Monza to mention a few. We are very much looking forward to these events, which are extremely well organized by the NEO Team.
PRO drivers: Karl Martin - David Jensen
AM drivers: Peter Dolmeyer - Jan Bronée
More information on the new NEO Series here
Old Bastards Racing - 2014 Season 3
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- Written by Jan Bronee
It is a while ago since new articles have where published on this site. The reason for this is that I had are longer period where I have not been that active in sim-racing.
However, this has changed now. Lately I just finished the “Old Bastards Racing - Season 3” in the GT3 Challenge series on the podium. I am very proud to finish in second place in this series. The winner was Gerald Carrel, who not only won this series but several other series in the Old Bastards League.
Suzuka
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- Written by Jacob Nielsen
Finally got around to doing another race in the Acura. Today was just another Sunday, without any plans, so at some point after I had lunch, I decided that, hey, wouldn't it be a good idea to rush through race preparation and Q for a race at one of the most difficult tracks on the schedule, and do a race?
So that's what I did. 3-4 Q laps in testing and I was ready for "qualifying", which was more like "post a time fast enough to not start in the GT field". Managed an "amazing" 44.7, which I later beat in the race by 2 tenths.
Come race start, I managed to jump the guy in 7th on the start, and by T3 I was able to get fully ahead. From here it was just a bit of lapping till lap 5 where I wanted to pit. But the guy ahead of me pitted on lap 5, so I decided to stretch it 1 lap longer to see if I could avoid hitting traffic, and jump him. Worked out! So at this point I was effectively in 5th.
A few laps later I was battling hard with a guy who hadn't pitted, but he was still slower than me. On the first lap I noticed he braked way early for Spoon, so put a lot of pressure on him till we came around to the hairpin, and he outbraked himself a little bit.
We were then side by side down the first bit of the long right hander, but he had a shorter distance to go, so by the time we got to Spoon, he was slightly ahead, but not a problem! I just outbraked him from a bit behind. Kept my line, hugged the curb, but he ran wide for some reason.
From there it was just lapping and avoiding crashing/spinning cars till I got my 4th position at the end. Much fun racing and with minimum preparation.
Padborg Park 2012
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- Written by Jan Bronee
We went to Padborg Park on August 30 2012 in order to do some real life racing in the Lotus Elise and also to try some laps in a Formula 2000 car as well. We invited our friends to join. So all-in-all we were 8 drivers. One of these was the super fellow iRacing driver David Jensen which is a very fast Corvette C6R sim-driver.
We were 8 drivers, 3 of us was iRacing sim-drivers. These 3 drivers took the first 3 spots on the grid after the qualifying session was closed. So it seems that you in fact are able to transfer some of that sim-racing experience into real life racing. It could also be a simple coincidence of course.
So how was is to drive the Lotus Elise? Simply amassing and tons of great fun. Really something special. You could at all times feel what the car was up to and making corrections was done relatively easy. I did however make one move which I could not recover from and thus ended in a spin. Each of the 4 Lotus cars was shared between 2 drivers. That meant that each driver almost got 2 hours of seat time during this afternoon and evening. I can really only recommend to pay Padborg Park a visit
Peter Dolmeyer claimed the pole position. However, well into the race, me and my co-driver Jesper Riiber Høj managed to apply some good pressure to Peter and his teammate. We were about 6 seconds behind. Then Peter made a small mistake in the pit-lane during a driver-swap and got a 10 seconds penalty. Which lead to that Jesper and me took the checkered flag 
Not an easy start
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- Written by Jan Bronee
The start of season 3 has been quite troublesome for me. The transition from F1 to LPM2 took some time to get under the skin. I don't have that natural talent, so I need the seat time to learn the muscles how to drive the new car. That means forgetting the F1 habits and drive more like a "normal" car. So result from Silverstone was a journey into the wall going through T1 on one of the very first laps. Pitting and then repeating driving into the same wall two laps later. This time beyond repair.
Next week at Watkins was not much better. A big pile-up in T9 on lap 4.
I almost avoided the crashed car in front of me .. but missed by a hair and the race was over. As you see, the left front tire vent trough the chassis.
Not to worry, I just take the next race 2 hours later. What happens? Of course I get rear ended at lap 2
At this point I have 3 early DNF's in the last 4 races with the LMP2. My SR is toast and my IR has taking some serious beatings.
Oh well, another day and another race will come :-D
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