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MORE THAN A DRIZZLE OF RESULTS IN THE FIRST WET IRACING SPECIAL EVENT

2024-03-24

The long awaited first wet race on iRacing came this weekend at the Sebring 12hr, with the team entering four cars across three classes. Each was adorned with a tribute to "Chaddy", the father of team driver and admin Chris Chadderton, who sadly passed away last week. It was that tribute that added more importance than ever for each driver to bring their car home, and in the end that's what happened.

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Most fittingly, the best result of the weekend came in the car Chris was driving, with the #562 car driving from the back row all the way to 3rd place over the course of the 12 hours. With early rain brilliantly handled by Liam Doyle, both drivers then put in an incredible performance to bring a well deserved podium in the 9th split.

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Elsewhere the #561 prototype driven by Pablo Arteaga and Jason Dilworth were put into the heady heights of split 2, and showed good pace outside of their couple of trips to the wall. Their eventual 10th position is something they'd have both taken at the beginning, but ultimately they both feel that a top 5 or better was possible.

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The #564 GT3 entry of Mark Cripps, Dean Timms and Nic Veltenaar had an extremely strong showing in split 13, managing to avoid damage for the entire race. For a time the car lead their split, and showed strong pace throughout. In the end the car came home in a very respectable 4th place in their race.

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Finally the #563 LMP2 car of Taylor Lane, Håkon Lindmo and Oliver Bunn had less luck than their team mates. Early on in the race they were driven into in the rain, putting them a number of laps down. The trio continued on in the hope of problems, but an extra trip to the wall made this a race of bringing to the end only. They did indeed do that, bringing the car home in 12th place and ensuring that all four of the team cars made it to the end.

Overall the team all celebrate the GT3 results, and especially that of the #562, together and leave the first wet iRacing special event with an incredible amount of information to digest and take into future races.

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