Breakaway Racing League

Special Feature

Greg Craig...An in-depth look into the driver of the #34.

Greg CraigGreg talks with Breakaway about his sim racing career and the personal side of the #34 driver!

We're sitting down with Greg Craig...driver of the #34 Old El Paso Pontiac Grand Prix, driving for Outlaw Motorsports. Greg tell our readers where your from?

Originally from Dayton, Ohio but just moved to Columbus, Ohio this past January

How long have you been sim racing?

I've been sim racing in one form or another for about 13 or 14 years since the Indy Car Racing days and every iteration of the Papyrus Nascar series. I have always been a fan of any type of motorsport racing and was just naturally drawn to the sim since I am a bit of a computer geek.

Greg...Most of us know that your an intrical part of Outlaw Motorsports racing program. Can you tell our readers how long you've been on the team and how that all came about?

I've been with Outlaw MotorSports for roughly 5 or 6 years, Harold, Tony and myself having been racing together quite a while before that time and Harold decided to form the team. I have also been racing with Ken for a very long time. Ken got me involved in Liquid Motion Racing which was the first team I had ever been a part of. That was back in the original NASCAR Racing and NASCAR Racing II days. This is my first year with Paul and I am very glad to be running with him and all my team mates. I think they asked me to join the team because they were tired of me running into them. I think the idea was that they thought if I were on their team, I would make a special effort to not run into them.

Whats your opinion of the new game from The Sim Factory and how is your racing program adjusting to it?

I like the new sim, I don't think it has quite the polish that N2K3 had, but it is a good start and I think it has great potential. Right now, I am just trying to figure out the setups, which is not my strong suit. Also trying to relearn all the function keys and controls. Kind of hard to teach an old dog new tricks, I had the N2K3 controls and function keys memorized like the back of my hand. Just a matter of time to get them learned though.

Any recomendations you could give any Rookies coming into our sport?

Practice, practice,practice. Also get with any of us in the league, everyone in this league is more than willing to help in any area, that is what I most like about BRL.

Some drivers are kind of using this season as a stepping stone to the 2009 season. How are you approaching our 2008 season?

Just trying to get with the program right now. I am also trying to get a new steering wheel dialed in.

Any new paint schemes coming our way this season for the #34 team?

I am still diving the Old El Paso paint scheme and probably always will. I have being running that paint scheme in one form or another for many years. I do have an alternate paint job this year, Chimay Trappist Monk Ale. I always have a couple new paint jobs in the works, but nothing cooking right now that is close to being ready.

Any news to report from Outlaw Motorsports Headquarters?

We picked up Paul (aka: Mr Moto) as a new teammate and also Ken (Raider88) as an "old" "new" teammate.

If you dont mind, could you give our readers some extra info about yourself...For instance, What's your local tracks name and where is it?

I have several tracks within a short drive, Columbus Speedway 1/3 mile short track, Mansfield speedway is about 45 minutes away and also Mid-Ohio sports car course is about an hour away

Do you ever get to go to a Nascar Race?

I have only been to one NASCAR race, We went to Atlanta a couple of years ago for the entire race weekend. Had tickets and Golden Corral VIP passes for the Truck, Busch and Cup race and what a blast that entire weekend was. I also attended the Nationwide series race at the Kentucky Speedway just last month. I have also attended several IRL races and GTP event at Mid-Ohio and also the Cleveland Gran Prix.

What other hobbies do you have besides Sim Racing?

I am an avid Bowler and also enjoy playing golf in the summer months. Oh yea, and I enjoy drinking Budweiser Beer!

Ok Greg...Lets do a game here called 5 Laps with Greg Craig! I'll say a word and you give us your response!

1Driver

Jeff Gordon

2Broadcaster

Marty Brennaman

3Drink

Budweiser

4Pastime

Bowling

5Food

(I know it's not one word) A Super Cheese Steak Sub from the Submarine House in Dayton, Ohio! http://www.submarinehouse.com/

Well Greg,we certainly have enjoyed this chance to sit down with you and cant wait to see what the #34 has in store for the league for the remaining of the 2008 season! Thanks for taking the time for our readers!!

Newsflash

Breakaway's drivers answered a recent poll in our forums and have decided by a majority vote to change the Breakaway Cockpits.com Series race lengths from 100% to 75%. They also have voted on changing the fuel usage to 2x fuel.

Pitroad Report

Aggressive driving continues to plague the Breakaway Cockpits.com Series races. Race officials are still fielding complaints from series drivers that the racing is great but a few drivers still have no patience and continue to plow there way to the front with little regard to clean racing.

Officials say that a new explaination of "Over Aggressive" driving is coming our way and will be made available in our "General Rules" pages, in the very near future. Until then...Drivers are being asked to calm down and let the race come to them for the first 3/4 of the race.

Latest News

RKR Signs 3rd driver

Renegade Krew Racing announces today that the team has signed "Darkie_Ca" as a 3rd driver to the team. Bigron01 and RKR_ Minikrew (RKR Co-Owners) had been thinking about hiring on a third driver for quite some time and when "Darkie_Ca" came into the scene of Breakaway....their focus quickly turned his way as they began to see the talents of the #10 shine brighter and brighter each week in Brl.

We had a chance to talk with one of the team owners "Bigron01" and ask him how this deal went down and here is what he had to say.

Bill and I were talking one night about different drivers and he said the more he talked with darkie he would like to have him as a teammate so I told him to do the leg work and the more I thought about it... man I just had to ask. So we went on to practice before the drivers meeting I sent darkie a private message and had no response so I thought well he must be on another team or did he not get the message didn’t really know. So after the race he sent me a message asking if I sent him one and I said to him yes and resent it asking if he was on a team and if not would he be interested in joining. His response was "Finally someone to practice with and get a little help with on the track"