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F1Time - S19 - Race14 - Interlagos, Brazil

A New Poll has been created in the HP to vote for the
Champion of this season. Sow and RC are the only candidates
and at the point of writing this, Sow got about 58% of the
votes against the 40% of RC. But where did the 2% go? Noone
knows.

With an InOut Time of 24 secs, few would go for Pole with a
low fuel level. Lex did that got the POLE with RC jus .008 behind.
We thought RC too was with Low Fuel Loads, but we were wrong. Sow
and his brother Yih shared the second row of the grid. There
was some interesting action at the start when both Malaysians got
ahead of RC. RC was not ready to give up as he pulled out an
amazing lap to regain his position. Jerusevicius too had a good
start as he stationed himself between Lex and RC. Lex had to pit
as early as Lap9. he didnt last long as his Engine let him off
on Lap19. RC in the meantime got ahead of Jerusevicius and Sow
moved to third. The First Pit Window was between lap 23 and Lap27.
RC,Sow and Yih pitted first but Rui Ferrera was the last one to
pit on Lap27. RC still kept the lead with Gimbutas, on a single stop,
behind him. Jerusevicius was third with Rui and Sow behind him. Jonny
again on a single stop strategy moved to seventh ahead of Yih.
Jonny and Gimbutas stopped at Lap 36 and 37 respectively. Among the
two stoppers, Sow was the first to pit on Lap 47. Others came in on
Laps 48 and 49 except Rui who again had a long stint till Lap55. Rui
gained from that as he moved to second position behind RC. Jerusevicius
was third and Sow was jus fourth. RC must be cursing his bad luck in
Lap64 when his driver spun giving Rui the lead. Rui got a 5 sec lead
which he held despite some fast laps from RC. The order stayed the
same for the results. It was a disappointing race for Sow as he lost
3 points to RC this time and his lead in DC is cut down to just 1pt.
With 3 races to go, anything can happen. Its still anyone's game.

Cristian Reindl showed his class as he lead the race from start to
finish and won the race with more than 30 secs gap to his nearest racer.
The Grid had Tej at the front row with L Mandler and Kosev in the second.
L Mandler was jus running a 30l stint as was evident in his Lap9 pit. While
Cristian, Tej, Irman and Ivan went in for two stops, managers like Kosev,
Bakas, Benjamin and Schmied opted for a single stop. The Two Stoppers
had their first pit between Laps 23 and 25 and their second between
Laps 47 and 52. The One Stoppers pitted between Lap 35 and 41. The
one stoppers did use their stops to their advantage. There was no
question about the winner of the race. Kosev came in a distant second
place followed by Tej and Bakas. Benjamin also scored some useful
points with his fifth place. Irman settled for 6th posn. But the
disappointing pair was Stephen and Mik who finished 11th and 12th
respectively. For the 'Waiting for Next Season' team, this one was a
real bad one to forget. Thomas had a good start but he kept loosing
positions and later had a DNF due to a collision with R Mandler. And
for me, I had my first Engine Explosion for the season. And i hope
its the only one!.

posted by [ - Aswin - ] @ 7:39 am