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Here is some proper w2w racing from the latest round of US Caterham Cup from Portland Internationa Raceway!

We are well into the season, with the next race coming this weekend at Portland. Here is a few pics from the 1st race back in April from Portland!

Great write-up/summary of both events @croc and it was nice to spend some quality time together with you and Bruce! Hoping we get to drive together in the future! Btw, we were so lucky with the weather first 3 days, however the last day the skies just opened up - and it was the typicaly SPA weather with rain and patches of fog. Bruce and I also wrapped early on the 4th day with all that rain. To be honest, we were also exhausted from the 3 days of high G corners anyway! SPA was one of my dream tracks and after countless laps on the simulator over the years, i really felt at home! Although the sim doesn't really carry over the elevation changes and the occasional sensation of "am I going to die", it was very helpfull in getting up to speed, no doubt. On the 3rd day, the track day gods were with me and I had 1 open lap and had to put it all together! This was so much fun, hoping to make it there again in the future! :)

Thank you sir, glad you liked it. The only part i don't feel great about is the sound quality and the video quality of the AIM camera my friend was using. It is so 1990's resolution. Luckly they came up with a Aim Smartycam 3 which he is upgrading to as we speak

Thanks! Qualy was actually 1.015 secs diffrence 😀

I hit coolant on back straight braking point, in qualifying. In qualy, i was 122mph ( according to the data) and what saved me was that i was close to the wall, so not much rotation happened towards the wall. As a result, i bounced of the wall, scarpped both wheels, lost rear fender and messed up my alignment. The race was heavy rain, with alignment i was compromised but in Sunday qualy and race ran away in the dry with full donination 😀

We've been having a great PNW weather lately and of course this meant we had tricky conditions at the Portland chicane challenge. Ofcourse it did not help that Radical dumped coolant on the track, so it was more ice then wet I've used multiple cameras for this edit, 360, Gopro, AIM and a drone. Hope you folks enjoy it

Round #2 of the Caterham Cup is in the books from the historic (and quite sketchy) Pacific Raceway last weekend. We were 7 strong and the #'s will continue to increase in the coming races as more cars get completed. Saturday we had some dry weather during the sprint race - and that turned out to be a epic battle till the very end between Tamer and myself. I tried everything to get away from the DRS but picking a lapped car finally did the trick eventually On Sunday we had full monsoon rain and after qualy we all decided to get home in one piece as the track turned into a active river. That being said, here are the 2 x fastest laps from dry on Saturday and rain on Sunday. Can you tell the diffrence of the race lines? We'll be at Spokane in 2 weeks time - in the middle of nowhere, in a desert surrounded by a Walmart and a large casino.

Hi Folks, One thing let to another - after I had gotten my 620r last year, I found myself on the grid with a Beachman G7 (almost 420r spec) with a bunch of other Caterham's lined up at Portland Raceway. This was first the time I was driving this G7, in race conditions and what a blast it was dicing with other Cats with the massive advantage of draft. I think we were 7 strong and should be up-to 10 x Cats by the next race at Pacific a few weeks from now. I ended up winning all 2 sprint races and the mini-enduro with zero issues thanks to Beachman's cheater G7 In the mini-enduro, in which all the classes came together - we also got top 5 overall. This was due to the heavy rain and the timid BMW's and Porsche's doing BMW and Porsche things. I think the Cats are being more noticed now and maybe we'll get even more turn out That being said, here is some action from the Sunday sprint racing for the lead! If you want to race against me - you know where to find me. Come get some!

Yep, if you go too fast basically drone will just stand still until it can see you again or if the battery level drops under 10% it flies back to where it took of and land automatically. There is aslo a beacon you can get which increases the range beyond visual tracking. Those roads are great here, and yes on the way back home i was able to warm up the rear tires 😀

Well, I had to try my Skydio 2 autonomous drone for a short drive to see how it can keep up. It is quite amazing that, it can avoid trees, power lines and pretty much anything. All I had to do was drive, well drive under 35 mph - which is the hardest part Put together a short little video, hope you folks enjoy it:

I couldn't imagine describing the experience as "massaging a sequential shifter" as it was quite violent. Not just because of the force needed to clank the gears but also from the back kick and loud pop. Reassuring yourself that it would be OK and not lift for the next pop which kept coming rapidly was quite the experience! That car looks amazing - don't wait ... just get it...!

@JohnCh - Ah yes, that beast! I cannot wait to see that on the track one day! A playdate with the 620r would be fun, but I suppose the 620r has no chance

Well then that's another reason to play @Croc!

@Croc - Are you local here as-well? What are you building? Let's play!! @Kitcat - Yea the track is awesome for these cars. The Atom 3S had advantage with the DF though on medium speed corners (+also he was running wider tires). But i do think these cars will also do not too bad at high speed tracks. I'm sure they'll be able to keep up with most out there easly. Btw who is Cong and what is he driving?