Anyone wanting something a little outlandish and eyecatching to drive might want to try this Aston Martin DBR9...

https://www.tradingpaints.com/showroom/view/76281/DC-Comics-vs-Marvel-Comics-DBR9-GT1

Kia Club Series- Interlagos

A mixed meeting for the 4X Racing Kia Optima. Didn't get on with the Interlagos circuit and only qualified 31st. Got caught up in an incident on lap one which saw my car soar up in the air and over the circuit railing. Took a tow and ended up finishing in 33rd place.

Race two saw me start 31st after penalties were applied. Was a massive crash again lap one which I got caught in but this time was able to bring car back to the pits, the safety car was deployed so took the fast repair and came out 18th. Caught a couple of cars in front of me napping during the restart and got up to 16th, where I battled hard to keep 16th just finishing ahead of Tristan Boddice. Second race was by far best part of the night, got a decent result when I probably didn't deserve it as the pace just wasn't there. Next week the Kia Club series visits Bathurst, that should be fun!

Dan Blake

Dan Blake Kia Club Series

Dan Blake is back in action tonight in the Kia Club Series, following on from his creditable performances at Motegi last week. This week's two 20 minute encounters are at Interlagos.

The new updated paint for the HPD ARX01C is now available in Dropbox.  It has been updated for the Le Mans 24 Hour race with the flags of the drivers emblazoned over the rear wing and on the sides of the cockpit.

Dan Blake runs the Kia in The Club Series, which is broadcast by ApexRacingTV... here is the broadcast of the latest round from Twin Ring Motegi...

Dan went on to finish a creditable 15th overall out of a full field of 43 cars in race 2 .  Well done Dan, flying the 4X flag there. :-)

I ran the Classic Indycar Series race at Mount Panorama last night.  The CIS run full length race distances using the older Dallara Indycar circa. 2011, so I had a full 47 laps of the daunting Mount Panorama track to look forward to.

Wasn't feeling at my best before the start, my muscles and joints were ready to call it a day, but I decided to take the start anyway.  The chances were I'd be out early on as the Indycar over the mountain is not for the feint hearted...!

Decided to play a waiting game, so didn't go hard in qualifying, just setting a time.  That saw me start 10th out of 10 starters.  Two crashed over the mountain on the opening lap, plus I passed three others, so at the end of the opening lap I was in 5th.  By lap 11 I was up to 2nd overall and quite bemused at this as these guys are fast... really fast...!

I just drove my own race, keeping my nose clean, staying out of trouble and brought it home 3rd overall with 0x too.  Well chuffed with that.

I have had my paintbrush out again... this time decided to paint the Solstice.  Poor old thing doesn't get a great deal of love these days... but I still enjoy pootling around in it...

Decided to go down the Pixar route today and do a Wall.E based design... available now on Trading Paints.

We have a new member of 4X Racing.  German driver Erik Leukel has now joined the ranks of 4X Racing drivers.  Erik, aged 20, from Bochum in Germany has been a member of iRacing since December 2014.

Erik regularly runs the Lotus 79 in the 4X Racing Lotus 79 Trophy Series, where he finished as runner up in the 2016 Season 2 Championship.

Erik enjoys endurance racing and is currently looking for a seat in the Le Mans 24 Hour race.  We look forward to racing with you Erik... enjoy your stay in the madhouse...!

There is a 4X Racing Driver Suit available in Dropbox if anyone wants one... one size fits all... give it a try if you fancy something different...

A few webstats for the 4X Racing website...

Month

	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Jan 2016	165	263	2,776	8,227	175.43 MB
Feb 2016	203	322	1,918	5,997	130.03 MB
Mar 2016	289	402	2,566	10,925	261.79 MB
Apr 2016	434	754	5,761	14,067	341.77 MB
May 2016	614	1,183	7,289	15,432	351.67 MB
Jun 2016	754	1,568	10,988	19,676	457.98 MB
Jul 2016	644	1,468	11,501	17,326	451.44 MB
Aug 2016	511	1,187	14,214	18,759	517.41 MB
Sep 2016	715	1,348	15,662	19,791	569.71 MB
Oct 2016	504	811	7,148	12,150	502.51 MB
Nov 2016	0	0	0	0	0
Dec 2016	0	0	0	0	0
Total	4,833	9,306	79,823	142,350	3.67 GB

A new league running the Star Mazda and Formula Renault 2.0 for the over 60's drivers has just published it's schedule for it's inaugural season.  The league not surprisingly called the Over 60's League will run the following races.

Nov 2 - Road America
Nov 9 - Phoenix Oval
Nov 16 - Watkins Glen (Classic Boot)
Nov 23 - Mosport (Canadian Tire Motorsports)
Nov 30 - Laguna Seca (Mazda Raceway)
Week 13 - (No Race on Dec 7--Practice for Monza)
Dec 14 - Monza (GP)
Dec 21 - Lime Rock (Full Course)
Merry Christmas!!!!
Dec 28 - Milwaukee Mile Oval
Happy New Year!!!!
Jan 4 - Brands Hatch (GP)
Jan 11 - SPA (Classic Pits)

Both David Sustello and Andy Morgan will be representing 4X Racing in this series running the Renault 2.0

All of the races will be livestreamed AND recorded on YouTube by Rudy Cummings at Maxspeedtv http://www.maxspeedtv.com/

Saturday sees the first round of the NEO Support Series, the GES 4 Hours of Road America.  4X Racing will be fielding two Mercedes AMG GT3 teams for the five event endurance series.

In the red team we have Marc Figueras, Jiri Mojak, Jack Turner and Andy Morgan and in the blue team we have Dan Blake, Joe Janowski, Matthew Dorrington and Justin Davis.

The two teams are being managed by Marc Figueras and Danial Farmer respectively.

The race runs on Saturday 15th October from 17.30 - 21.30 GMT and features three classes of car, PROTO - Corvette Daytona Prototype, GT3 - Mercedes AMG and GTC - RUF RT12C C-Spec

With up to 52 cars taking the grid, patience will be required to get to the finish of this 4 hour race unscathed.

The race will be broadcast live by Racespot TV and can be found here... http://www.got-racing.eu/wp/?page_id=2494

Right, the new blogging page is live and ready for all your blogging.  Please everyone, have fun and make full use of it.  Keep everyone informed about what you're racing, with whom and where.  If you also get the chance of a screenshot or two from the race, or even a video, then post it here.

Two driver profiles have just been completed.  Dan Blake and Liam Quinn.  Please check them out when you get a chance.

Happy blogging everyone

Oh, and if you're unsure how to do it, talk to Ben Saunders... he's a whizz on it...!

Here's a little video I found of us in this car on the 2007 Bulldog National Rally in Dyfnant Forest in Mid Wales... my driver was well on it that day.  If I remember correctly we finished in the top three overall.

David Howells/Andy Morgan drifting the Scooby...


And here is a complete stage from the Red Dragon Rally in which we also finished 3rd overall and won Group N, the showroom class.

David Howells/Andy Morgan - 2008 Red Dragon Rally

Seeing how quick you worked out how to use the blog feature Benjamin... you are now the official 4X Racing Blogmeister... when people are having trouble how to use it, you are our new official go-to guy for blogging

If you want to see what the weather is doing here in deepest darkest Wales... check this one out...
Saundersfoot Weather Station

http://driver61.com/


This site is worth checking out.
Good tutorial videos and everything is race driver related.

Once I retired from rallying I found other ways of using some of my helmets...

The first run I had in the Subaru Impreza around 10 years ago... flies well too

So lets see if anyone else comes to post some crap on here...

Maybe this fine fellow in dire need of a new razor may come along and post something...

Now I'm blogging as myself... I think (I hope...!)

Well I'm trying to work out just how to use this blog... but getting there slowly...Hopefully this will become a useful feature to the webpage.

My latest ride...

Hello and welcome to the 4X Racing blogspot...

Here you will hopefully find some interesting info on what is happening within the 4X Racing Sim Racing Team.  This is a new feature to the 4X Racing website, which I hope will become quite popular with the team... time will tell...