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F1Time - S19 - Race10 - Brands Hatch, Great Britain

We are into the second half of the Season19 in F1Time. The Big Fight
is continuing in c1 and i hope it continues like that till the end of
the season. Sow had an early advantage, but with RC with consistent
performances and wins, cut down that advantage. Sow responded to RC
by winning the Indy GP. Lets see who had the Final Laugh this time
around in Brands Hatch,GB

This race was a mixture of wet and dry conditions. We saw that Sow really
ruled the Wet Race in Indy and this should be a decisive factor in this
race as well. But RC showed that he was equally good in Wet conditions
when topped the Warmup in c1. Sow came second and Nuno Mendes
was third. RC made that advantage into Pole Position in the Grid.
Sow was a bit slow in Qual and still came second. Lex came in third
and share the second row with Yih. Eld was superb in the starting
line, when he drove to fourth position. Sow overtook RC on the fourth
lap with a superb lap which saw him drive almost a second faster than
RC. Eld pitted at Lap10 which shows that he was running a Very Light
for that 1M Pole. RC was again down a position when Lex overtook him
in the 11th Lap. RC had his Pit at Lap19 a lap before the weather
changed. And that mistake saw him loose another position over to Eld
this time. There was a mass pit at Lap20 and Sow was still leading
from Lex and Eld. But then Eld had to pit again and RC regained his third
place. By this time, the Top3 seperated from the next group of 3
comprising Yih, Osterloh and Eld. After the second round of stops,
Eld and Osterloh switched positions and further lost a posn to
Nuno Mendes who was running a different strat. Lex was still
holding RC to Sow's advantage. But that didnt last long. During
the third pits, RC got in front of Lex. But there ends the story.
He couldnt challenge Sow at all as Sow cruised to his second
consecutive win with a 17 second difference over RC. Lex got another
Podium finish. I think its hightime he presses for a win. A Season
like this comes in a while and one has to fully utilise it. As far
as others, Yih once again had Bad luck and he got an Engine Explosion
and had to pull out. Vitor was in a Saving Mode and running 11th till
the last lap. He had an accident in his very last lap which saw him
finish in 18th position.

c2g1 race was unusual in many ways. The Warmup was as usual
dominated by the Big Stephen. Once again he showed that he could
not handle the single lap qualifying pressure when he had to settle
for 2nd place in the grid. Kondrat took the Pole while Schmied and
Reindl shared the second row. The First Lap was a tragedy for Kondrat
as he spun and went down to 20th place. He later had an accident
with Ivan and his race ended with jus 7 laps to his name. The First
few laps saw the Lead changing between Stephen, L Mandler and
C Reindl. When Schmied had an Engine Explosion in Lap8, that gave me
another Cup Win by luck. There were numerous reshuffling happening
in the race positions and once it settled, L Mandler was leading
followed by Irman, Stefan and C Reindl. The Weather changed in
Lap21 and Stephen made a mistake of pitting one lap early.
Surprisingly L Mandler continued and pitted only 4 laps later.
Irman took the lead while Reindl came in front of his teammie
Stefan by virtue of his good crew. But Reindl made a mistake of
going for 4 pits as everyone else went in for 3 and i think that
was the best in this situation. Obviously he was tempted by the
short In-Out time of 4 secs in this track. Stephen overtook Stefan when
the latter had tyre wear. The Real Surprise was when L Mandler ran out
of Fuel in Lap49. I know some of those guys trying 150l Fuel as a
Saving Strategy, but with a race under his control, i really donno
how much it helps him. But hes ex-c1 and knows more than me and i still
need to figure out why he did so. In the end, it was an easy win for
Irman with Stephen coming second. The 'Big Lebowskis' (Reindl and
Stefan) finished in third and fourth positions, which was obviously
the best result for them. They really made their Engines work for
them. Thomas had a decent outing in which he finished 8th. I could
have finished 9th or atleast 10th if not for the 'Blocker' Mikhail
in front of me. A Spin in Lap72 even ruled out the chance for overtaking
B Fischer at a time when he was wearing.

posted by [ - Aswin - ] @ 9:03 am