So yeah, I've been laxing on my iRacing journey updates. Just been busy with life and have been racing at night and going straight to bed after I'm done. So my updates haven't been coming.
But today is a special day.
I've been running a lot of Indycar Class C oval events, a few truck and Xfinity, and even a few ARCA races, and was slowly progressing up the SR ladder. I'd get as high as 3.6, then have a bad race or two and end up dropping back down to as low as 3.2. I was getting frustrated because most of the time I was being taken out by somebody either not paying attention, or just being stupid. I get it, it happens, but especially on restarts I'd get my ass kicked.
But finally over the last few days I decided to go for the A class license.
And it finally happened.
I've run several ARCA races over the last 2 days, mostly because there are no cautions so I can avoid most of the other cars. I just wouldn't qualify and hang back behind the pack. A couple of near misses and an occasional getting lapped didn't bother me.
This morning it finally happened.
I ran a clean ARCA race at Iowa, and jumped 0.56 in SR. I ran in the back and finished 12th out of 14, but it was good enough to promote to A class.
So now I can run with the big dogs. Well, maybe.
So after 9 months of being on iRacing, I've progressed up the ladder from Rookie to A class. Let's hope I can stay there for a while.
Oval: Class A, SR 3.5, iRating 1330
Road: Class C, SR 2.52, iRating 1175
Dirt Oval: Class B, SR 3.40, iRating 1156
Dirt Road: Rookie, SR 2.74
Excited for the next chapter!
