I will be missing the Charlotte, Gateway and Sonoma races.
For a pretty good reason, atleast I feel.
Visiting the Indy 500, followed by a road trip. Bringing along the usual suspect on my/our USA road trips (Jeroen).
Three weeks of not having to worry about getting Rauch'd.
I messed up my own race by hitting the cone on pit entry for the final pitstop.
Could have been top5 ish, maybe.
Not a great race for me. Didn't notice a checkup on the fuel saving train and just about turned David. Once again, sorry for that. Thankfullly he gathered it up and got another shot at it.
I couldn't get the tires working my way on the final part of the race, sadly. Dirty air, and a little bit of front damage after the contact with David.
This also just doesn't seem like my combo.
There was for sure a 'theme' of lapped cars on fresh tires hitting people.
Crowding someone's right rear quarter panel on corner exit really only means one thing in my book.
The least expected 3rd place finish for me this season.
Only got good tirewear on the last stint.
I was about to lose 3rd place to David, when the final caution came.
And I was able to keep 3rd.
I got an unsafe exit penalty on the very last green pitstop. Inched onto the yellow line in T2... harsh one, but atleast my own mistake.
Happy to push Maik Steinicke to the win tho. Something I would have likely been trying to do without that pitlane penalty.
It seemed like I could line up my car with Maik a little bit better than Jose could with Kevin.
Redlined the heck out of the engine temp coming to the finish, haha.
Steering damage from lap 1, 2m40s optionals I could not get fixed.
Not a lot of luck this week in Texas.
Good win Eugene. Fun to see lots of offset strategy going on.
Got damage on lap 30, avoiding Jakub losing it coming off T4.
Your save was good, but sadly crossed the track in a pretty nasty way while doing so. Wrong place wrong time, happens I guess.
Some more damage when Roland ran me up the track in T4 on lap 48 (wheel damage).
The first damage took off some top speed, I think.
Still good racing overall. A little bit sad because I think there was more potential for me.
Good win Jose!
Short track racing I guess. Not super enjoyable for me overall.
I'm not taking enough risks on these restarts to gain like some others do. Hard to find the fine line in what risks to take here.
And on a longer run overtaking is near impossible without the car in front making a mistake.
Got shuffled wide a couple of times on restarts...
Just chose to pit again on lap 147 out of frustration. Since I just seemed to be going backwards anyways.
Incidents, and some ok restarts got me back up to 9th.
Most fun I had was the side by side battles with Matthias Koch. Had to get around the outside twice. And that took about 20 laps for one of those.
Interesting race.
Took an extra set of tires early, which didn't work out well. Lost way too much track position and got royally stuck. I just did not have top 10 pace on long run either way (I think).
Some exciting restarts later I came away with a 6th.
The big fields make the strategy very interesting. Good to see the numbers are holding up.
Also had a some good laughs watching the pink menace collecting black flags (on the replay).
Lucky? I would say you're the reason for the big one.
I don't follow the humor, even tho I see the "
" in there.
But I'm sure that's just me. It was also hardly helpful for me with the meatball flag 
I got somewhat lucky on the big one.
Still had a meatball after that, but cleared to get out in front of the pacecar just in time.
After that some nice fighting with other wounded cars. But wheel damage on right rear did not help.
I'm not sad to see Bristol go away for a while now, rough week.
Could not get going too well, tho this drove a lot nicer than the A car.
You were being run down the track by one car, and up the track by another car.
Both moves were either mistake, risky driving or both, in my opinion atleast.
I would have been more upset with being run up the track like that, than someone having a different/compromised line up high.
I can understand the racing incident calls made for this race.
That was a pretty cool race. Lots of close fights for position. I did not qualify well, and that compromised the early part of my race.
Went for extra stop early on even tho my tires felt great. But that never came into play with added cautions.
To come back to 5th after needing the wave-around feels like a great result.
There are always some victims of the dogleg. There is a small triangle of death in the middle of it, right where the flat meets the banking and where you turn the most. Even slightly above the yellow line, the momentum shift can make the car snap loose real fast.
Rain cancelled race. Much realism
So, how many forgot to enroll this time round? 
Nice race. Lots of fights and some narrow escapes along the way.
I'll take a top 5 finish. Not sure where I would be on a green flag race, but 2nd stint did go very well.
Very messy race. Also from my end.
On the restart on lap 99, I had to check up in the middle of an upshift. And that turned into a misshift, slowing down everyone behind me. Sorry my bad, that hardly ever happens to me.
On lap 143 there is an incident coming out of T2. We scatter but there is no caution yet, so need to keep up the speed mostly. I went below the apron to avoid the incident. As I merge that turns into a 4-wide and an incident/caution. We were pretty much forced into that situation, with some having to lift more than others. Would be good if iracing spotter could call 4-wide...
On the white flag lap I get turned going into T1. Could have done without this race (and track reconfiguration).
It is always good to apologise when you make a mistake.
Tho the meaning of a sorry can wear out very quickly when used often.
Thankfully we don't have to be friends on a track, just hoping for a decent amount of respect to go both ways.
Happy with the finish in 11th.
On lap 37 I went from P13 to P35. Just "a few places" I guess.
Happy with the result after that setback.
