Road Runner Racing

The iracing tour modified series came off its closest point battle in history with Brett Osborn beating Road Runner's Nathan Saxon by 2 points in the final week at Thompson.
Week 1 brought them to Martinsville Speedway where Road Runner Racing newcomer Joshua Hahn secured 3rd in Mondays 3201 SoF race and winning a 2387 SoF race on tuesday night.
On Friday another of Road Runner Racing's newest drivers Derek Hopkinson brought home the victory after starting 15th in a full field of modifieds. He would bring home 151 points.
On Saturday night Nathan Saxon snaps out of his dismal start to the season with a thrilling race victory in a 2446 SoF in which Tj Graves edges out Derek by .004 seconds after a one lap shootout to take home second.

Tour mod standings after 1 week:
1. Brett Osborn-194
2. Samual Dick- 162
3. Joshua Hahn-155
4. Derek Hopkinson-151
5. Nathan Saxon-150
...
7. Tj Graves-136

Mike Littlefield failed to improve on his drop weeks after finishing 2nd in the first race and crashing out of the second race Tuesday night.

TJ Graves had a similar night finishing 3rd earning 127 points then got caught in the same incident as Littlefield.

The real controversy of the night was after a last lap Overtake by Rusty Greer on Mike Daniel in the pit straight ended with contact on the exit of turn 1. The two drivers both crashed out in the same incidents in the closing moments of the prior race.

Nathan Saxon picked up 2 wins @ Bristol this week including the largest SOF race of the week thus far, and is still leading the Tour mod championship, by quite a bit of points. 

Wow, Michael Morrison pulls out a win in the 7:15 Top split Bristol race (Don't talk to Littlefield about that). And grabs second place to Trent Hullum in the 9:15 race. Wrapping up a ton of points for this week in the SK's

Later on in the night Mike Littlefield won the 9:15 while Saxon finishes second. Nathan Saxon has now pulled out to quite the lead in the Tour mod standings as Mike Littlefield shoots from 12th to 3rd due to the 197 points he received in the 9:15.

Nathan Saxon came in first in the 7:15 Tour modified race with Mike Littlefield just 2 tenths back grabbing a 1-2 finish for RoadRunnerRacing.

Winner - Mike Littlefield

Winner - Rusty Greer

Mike Littlefield won the 9:15 Saturday SK Martinsville race while teammates Nathan Saxon, and TJ Graves also both finish well. With Saxon finishing 3rd and Graves 4th. 

Have done about 400 laps here in practice/testing now and can say that this track is one of the harder ones to get consistent at. The main thing in keeping speed throughout the corners is to stay on the apron through 1-2 the ENTIRE time, but let it roll, and once the car rotates in the center just enough, get on the throttle. However, on exit you really have to be careful to not get under the apron with your left front. Or you may go spinning. In the picture below I put a red circle around the part of the apron you REALLY don't want to mess up on. 3-4 isn't so detrimental to the lap time if you mess up. The same principles apply, except going up the track a little isn't going to destroy a lap time by more than 2-5 hundredths  And in the video below, I actually hit quite a fast lap while pushing up the track in 3-4. So like I said it doesn't make a HUGE difference. I hope this helped, look out for a set on the setup page by Tuesday morning ... Read more »