1979: Darlington

September 3, 1979: Southern 500

Race results and current standings:

For only the fourth time in my replay, the real life race winner won.

Your race winner, David Pearson, driving the Rod Osterland #2 in place of injured driver Dale Earnhardt.

Darrell Waltrip maintains the points lead over Richard Petty.

Next: the Capital City 400 @ Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway.

Stay tuned!

Grand National Drivers List

The updated driver list for the Grand National Pioneers Series.

Eleven drivers added from Pete Adams’ ‘Local Yokels’ freebie set.

That’s 60+ drivers vying for 43 starting grid spots, even though I know that starting grids were much bigger back then.

No changes to the race schedule.

The first and last races are held on fictional race tracks, which I’ve located in Hanford, Washington and Fresno, California.

Stay tuned!

Pepsi Racing League: Race #18

The Series Finale!

The Pepsi 400 from the Southern Super Speedway.

Race results and final standings:

Final race results:

The 2016 Pepsi Cup Racing Series comes to an end.

PLAAY doesn’t appear to be releasing another Truck Series car set, so this is it.  No more truck racing.

I do believe that some of these drivers appear in later PLAAY SCRAM series.  I may transfer Louttit, Gayle and Saguisag to one of these other series, someday.  Perhaps the 2018 SCRAM-B series?

Next up: the Grand National Pioneers Series begins!

Stay tuned!

Pepsi Racing League: Race #17

The Cortana 300 from the Western Frontier Raceway.

Race results and current standings:

Nick Holo clinches the points lead and the Pepsi Cup Championship due to poor finishes by Phil Clooney  and Ricky Sellars, his two closest competitors going into this race.

Next: the season finale, the Pepsi 400 from the Southern Super Speedway.

The championship has been decided, so this race is more for pride and bragging rights than anything else.

Stay tuned!

Racing

I should just start every racing series that I have planned.

Or not.

I don’t think there’s enough room in the game box for all the card sets.

Plus I would need to print out more scoring sheets.

And then I’d burn myself out on racing, like I did with baseball.

And then I’d go back to baseball.  Or start football and soccer again.

Ah well.  Maybe I’ll just play Terraforming Mars or Leaving Earth.

Stay tuned!