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Season Standings After Round 3
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Rick Ravon won the iSplash Indy 100, his debut race with the Retro CART Leage. Margin of victory 0.353 over Austin Dabbs, with Trey Mitts in 3rd. The top 4 drivers finished within .6 of a second after a long night of wheel to wheel racing.
Great to see 18 drivers taking the green flag. Awesome and close racing all night long. Few more yellows than last season, but a fun night none the less!
Podium
- Rick Ravon
- Austin Dabbs
- Trey Mitts
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Season Standings After Round 2
Johnny Hamby proved to be the quickest at Long Beach, starting from the pole and leading from flag to flag, scoring maximum points. George Sandman, who qualified on the front row alongside Hamby, got the shortest end of the stick in a lap 8 pile up in the hairpin that also damaged Breuning’s car, but the #61 driver was able to carry on. After lengthy repairs on his pit stop he dropped to 4th and opened the way forward for Chris Hamelink, who finished 2nd ahead of Cody Hunly.
Happy holidays to all drivers and fans, we’ll be back in January with the Indianapolis 100 event!
Podium
- Johnny Hamby
- Chris Hamelink
- Cody Hunley
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iRacing and Licensing Issues
After reading up on the IndyCar licensing issues on iRacing and viewing several video’s of streamers on the issue, on behalf of our Retro CART League I’d like to say the following:
Our league/series will not change, as we are not running any of the cars that are affected by the changes. The Lotus 79 is not an IndyCar but a Formula One car. The CART organization no longer runs any high profile series in the USA or beyond and was in fact dissolved in 2003. Therefore, I foresee no licensing or copyright issues whatsoever.
Our series is based on 80’s and 90’s IndyCar style racing, but in our announcements and publications we refer to it as Retro CART and/or open wheel racing mostly. I suppose to avoid any kind of issues with iRacing and/or IndyCar, we should refrain from using the word ‘IndyCar’ and refer to what we do as ‘open wheel racing’.
We will continue to broadcast our races as planned.
Marc.
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Season Standings After Phoenix
The Season opener at Phoenix [Legacy] showed close racing wherever you looked! Polesitter Johnny “I’m not much into ovals” Hamby lead early in the race, but behind him everyone was pushing. Inevitably, there were the drivers caught out by the close battles. Once Hamby got caught, it was Hamelink and Wineinger battling for top spot but Wineinger became a victim of the close racing being a little too close. After the pitstops, Hamelink was leading, with Breuning in 2nd. Breuning opted not to take tires and quickly took the lead.
In the final stages, his advantage evaporated and Hamelink and Fahey were all over him. Two laps before the end the battle was unfortunately decided with Hamelink’s car snapping around in turn 2, collecting Fahey in the process.
Breuning took top spot under yellow, with Joe Walker 2nd and Bill Smithem in 3rd, proving that it pays to keep going even when two laps down.
Podium
- Marc Breuning
- Joe Walker
- Bill Smithem
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iSplash Series Sponsor for Retro CART League
iSplash provides iRacing paint jobs for a reasonable price and will be partnering with Retro CART League. More information can be found here.
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Season 2 Announcements!
Retro CART League is proud to announce season 2 starting on December 16th 2022 and we are happy to announce that TURN3 Racing Network are on board for the entire new season, with Dave In The Cave in the booth!
Retro CART League SEASON 2 comes with the opportunity for drivers to win some iRacing dollars:
- The season champion will receive an iRacing gift card of $15; the runner up will receive a card for $8 and the third highest finisher receives $5.
- And, as if that isn’t enough, there is a possibility to earn an extra dollar for each race win and an extra 3 dollars for the
Congratulations to Johnny Hamby for his well deserved 3rd win in the first Retro CART League season. Undoubtedly he will be a strong contender for the Championship in the future, but this first season belongs to Marc Breuning, who secured the championship with a 2nd place finish today.
Congratulations also to Darryl Wineinger on finishing 3rd!
Thanks to all drivers for their participation in season 1. Season 2 kicks of December 16th at Phoenix [legacy]. Hope to see you all there!!!