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Paint it Black

by Dennis Grebe on September 2nd, 2010

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With the IZOD IndyCar Series at iRacing visiting the famous 2.5 mile oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it fell to one of the oval specialists to dominate the racing. Rhawn Black from California raced in 20 of the 35 splits, leaving just a few online races un-attended. However, Black did not merely participate, he finished 15 of his 20 races in the Top Five and won a whopping 13 races.  No other sim racer even managed to win more than two races. His very successful week gave him 144 points, the third highest of the week.

A rare sight at the Brickyard: Rhawn Black in second behind John Paquin

A rare sight at the Brickyard: Rhawn Black in second behind John Paquin.

Yang Ou (Scandinavia) scored the highest points for the week at 163, collected for winning a high Strength of Field race against the likes of Black, Matteo Bortolotti (Italy), Henrik Müller (DE-AT-CH) and Paul Luck (Australia). Ryan Field also had a good week, scoring 155 points for a second place finish to Black.  Mark Muckey (Pennsylvania) and Marty Sponsler (Midwest) completed the Top 5 in points for the week at 140 and 136 points. Championship frontrunner Klaus Kivekäs (Scandinavia) scored 135 points for the sixth highest total of the week, with Ian Lake (Australia) just five points behind at 130. Other contenders Stephane Schodduyn (Benelux) and Aleksi Elomaa (Scandinavia) scored 124 and 111 points respectively.

driving games

Racing on the edge and sometimes beyond – heartbreak after the iAmIndy car spun into the wall in Turn One.

In the overall standings Kivekäs still leads with 611 points after four weeks of racing. Field closed the gap slightly and now lies 46 points behind in second. Lake in third has 529 points to his name. Schodduyn in fourth is a further 14 points behind in fourth with Elomaa in fifth just another eight points behind. PJ Stergios (New England), Luck, Ken Leach (New York), James Allard (New York) and Martin Blais (Eastern Canada) complete the Top 10.

On the Time Trialing side of the competition it is Richard Walker (England) leading by a big margin of 33 points in front of John Paquin (Indiana) and another 17 points in front of Leach.

Plains still hold their lead in the Regional Standings with now 1228 points. Celtic just barely keep second with 1065, only eight points ahead of DE-AT-CH. Indiana moved into fourth with 828 points, ahead of International at 769 and England at 748 points. In a tight midfield battle, Benelux at 720, Midwest at 703 and Atlantic at 700 points trail by just a few points.

After one of the most famous track in motorsports the IZOD IndyCar Series now moves to Australia where races will be held at the Phillip Island Circuit.

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Fastest Qualifying lap of the week:
John Paquin – 39.467

Fastest Time Trial of the week:
John Paquin –39.624 (ten laps)

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    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    Black may be fast, but he has a reputation for running too low of downforce and causing a mess like he did in the iRacing Indy 500.

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    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    I find it funny that the haters spend so much time hating when they could spend that time worrying about their own setups and actually becoming something other than a “has been” in this seris. I love it! I didn’t know that Niles was spelled ……………..

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    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:17 pm

    Yah, I love it when they have to justify why someone is faster than them. THEY DID THEIR HOMEWORK! Give them credit. I don’t think Mr. Black caused an accident in 20 races! I would like to know where his “reputation” came from. You? Probably. Stop the hate. Embrace the speed. Don’t be such an idiot.

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    John Paquin
    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Nice article as usual Dennis. The negative comments because someone has the ability to be faster than you need to stay to yourself. Let’s not turn this series in a soap opera. You get when you earn in regards to speed. And the low downforce comments if you took the time to watch any of the races that Rhawn and I were in are ridiculous. We were able to stay 2 feet behind one another and had no problems handling T1. The people who had the problems were the ones trying to stay behind us and would ususally push into the wall. Who’s running the low downforce? All of those comments are irrelevant and should be kept to yourself. The fact is, you couldn’t hang and you wanna justify a reason why you couldn’t. We were probably running more downforce than you were quite frankly. You didn’t see us push into the wall in traffic. Let’s not dull the fact that for Indy guys, that was probably the most fun and active week in Iracing history. Almost every race went official. AWESOME! Met alot of new guys during the week and made some friends. Let’s not forget that’s why we’re here. Good comraderie, and people looking out for one another was the “norm” in the races I ran. Great great week!!!

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    Daniel Brookins
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:12 pm

    I thought Indy week was great !

    Kudos to all those who joined in, and congrats to those who made it to the podium.

    To those few who continued to run badly wrecked cars at the expense of the other drivers, or kept running laps through the pits to save SR…. please read the Sporting Code. Regaining SR in other ways is easy… rebuilding your IRacing reputation will be a little more difficult.

    Aloha,
    Daniel Brookins

    PS
    I believe it is a mistake to allow people to post comments without publishing their true identity.
    While it does generates some lively reading, it will invariably lead to comments that otherwise would have, and should have, went unsaid.

    If you are not willing to stand behind your comments, you probably should not make them, IMHO.

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    Don Hunter
    September 3rd, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    Congrats to R.Black for a great week. I struggled all week to get a setup fast enough to be stable and adjustable to have a safe race. I finally found it on the last day and made one race. Black and Paquin were the Penske force at Indy last week and congrats for building a setup that was superfast and stable.

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    VSciuto
    September 3rd, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    Nice article, Dennis. Well done! Congrats to all who won, or had fun, during the week!