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F1Time - S19 - Race12 - Anderstorp, Sweden

With just six more races to go, the whole of F1Time was awaiting
the c1 battle where RC and Sow are tied up at exactly the same points.
Sow this time made up for his drop last race at Monza and won the race
and became the sole leader. Osterloh further helped Sow by coming in
second place. RC had to settle for third. Also my Cup Battle with
Stefan was my interest in this race. But i quickly pulled out of the
duel and gave Stefan an easy win. After the Cup is not as exciting as
the real c2 championship. Our Group had a totally different winner and
challenger this time. The victory was made more sweet for Cristian as he
managed to pass the leader only in dieing laps. Though lost a win, Rinat
made it exciting in the group.This is how the events turned out.

The current season is full of wet races and everyone now knows that
noone likes wet more than Sow. He lead the Warmup as well cameup
with the POLE. RC was alongside Sow in the grid ready to pounce
on him at an oppurtunity. Vitor was in second row with Arus, who
finally seems to race again. But Arus had a poor start as he
dropped to seventh in the very first lap. Sow pulled out from RC,
who also lost places to Vitor, Lex and Nuno. RC and Arus regained
some positions by Lap7 and they were running fourth and fifth
respectively. Vitor was the first one to pit among the front
runnners in Lap17. Lex then pitted on Lap20 followed by Sow on
Lap21 and RC on Lap22. Now Sow was leading followed by Arus,
Timoshenko and Osterloh. RC was fifth at that time. Arus and
Timoshenko pitted late in Lap25. Now the leaderboard read Sow,
Osterloh and RC. The Race had a Dry portion in the Last 9 laps and
only Osterloh pitted for Dry Tyres. He was running second with a gap
of 10 secs from Sow. Osterloh put on a series of fastest laps but
could manage the difference between him and Sow cut down again to
10 secs. RC finished third while Arus came fourth. Vitor and Lex
finished fifth and sixth respectively. Vitor seems to have lost the
bite and is now steadily pulling away from Sow and RC. Its become
a Cat-n-Mouse between just them now.

Though Stephen once again came up with the fastest time in WU, he
faultered again in the Qualifying. And mebbe strategy as well!.
C Reindl took the POLE with Ivan and L Mandler closely behind him.
Within the first few laps of the race, L Mandler got ahead of Ivan
to run second. Rinat also made good progress through the field to
run fourth. L Mandler pitted as early as Lap10 and now Rinat was
in Podium spot. He then overtook Ivan to chase Christian.
Christian pitted on Lap21 and Rinat was leading then. Stephen who
was fourteenth on the grid progressed to sixth posn by then. Rinat
ran with a heavy Fuel Load which enabled him to run till Lap43 before
he pitted. Christian too pitted the same lap but Rinat held the
advantage. Schmied was third. Benjamin, Stephen and Stefan followed
them. With jus 8 laps to gom the weather changed and Christian,
Benjamin and Stefan pitted. This put Benjamin down to sixth while
Stefan was down at tenth position. But the Dry Tyres definitely
helped as all three made up positions. Benjamin finished fifth
while Stefan stormed back to sixth. But the big Winner was
Christian who managed to pip Rinat down the straight line in the
last-but-one lap. Schmied finished third and Stephen was fourth.
'Waiting for Next Season' was changing positions between themselves
in the middle of the pack and we finish fifteenth and sixteenth
respectively. Also it was 0-1 for my Cup 'efforts'.

posted by [ - Aswin - ] @ 8:15 am