“The One with the LMP2 or How I won the war at Road America” The Grand Illusion Issue #8
Wow it’s been a while since my last issue!!!!
This one was held over from October of 2025. A lot has happened so I’ll put a bit of the recent stuff here and then there will be another issue coming soon! And this time IT WONT BE MONTHS!!
In the last issue I had mention I had gone to Assetto Corsa. After getting the boot from Side Hustle Racing, I decided to step away from GT7 leagues and go back to one I was racing with in AC. An IMSA based private Leauge that was mostly for anyone. I had won some exhibition races in their DPI/GTD Leauge, and then signed up to race in the ProAm category. This ProAm category features the HYPERCARS, LMP2, and GR3. With my success in GT7, I was given a test in Hypercars and got on to driver for the Cadillacs, but also I owed another team my time, or, so I thought. For context, each admin in the Leauge owns their own team.
The Aston Martin team offered me a test session in the Valkyrie V12 seen here. Which I did well in during the other session and was slated to race with them. During the full field test sessions, we were not very fast at all, only 15th out of 18 Hypercars. We were waaaay off, we were down on speed. The handling was there but no matter what we did nothing worked. I suggested a few things, but then things went wrong in a hurry!
During one of the sessions, we had a terrible crash where while me and the Ferrari were trying to pass the LMP2 on track, that LMP2 clipped the Ferrari and we all crashed. After that, I was released from the team cause the admin felt I wasn’t “adapting to the setup properly”. However, when one door closes in your face, another window opens!
Tower of Power Racing entered an extra LMP2 for me to race in! The LMP2s are slower than the HYPERCARS but they’re also a lot of fun. So in the 2 sessions I did before qualifying and race, I ended up at first 6th out of 8, then 3rd out of 8 cause we found something that really helped! When Qualifying rolled around, we qualified 4th and got spun out fast by one of the other LMP2s. Thankfully we charged back up thanks to pitstops.
We found ourselves going up to 4th, then 3rd, then 2nd thanks to the 2nd place guy breaking the transmission, and then, we found first place. We opened it to a huge lead and when the checkers came out, WE WON! It was my first ever LMP2 win in my first ever LMP2 race! What a night! And this was after a 35 laps race that equaled 1hr! It was a huge deal for me! And after that the series signed me up for racing in the Hypercar category full time next year! (Fast forward to now)
I became a full time ProAm driver and already impressed! At Daytona I won on pit strategy, at Spa I finished 8th and DNFed, Long Beach 2nd and now we will be heading to the street of Detroit at the end of this month!
I also got the chance to race the “LeMans Prologue”, a race where Pro and ProAm drivers get to race. I was drafted in by the Aston Martin Valkyrie team to sub for one of their drivers who is currently on the grand jury for a case. I started 5th, led 16 laps and ended up winning my first pro category race ever! It was a huge deal for me and brother I celebrated!
It was amazing to have won in a big way with the Valkyrie. Now I head back to my Cadillac.
This post I hope makes up for the gap that happened! I’m hoping to be more active here soon! Cause boy do I have a bunch of stories…including getting the forced bump out of a Leauge I thought would be my forever GT7 home
But THAT is a story for another day!
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