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F1Time - S19 - Race16 - Adelaide, Australia

We are into the last week of Season 19. With a 6 point lead
over RC, Sow still leads the Championship. Not only RC has
to produce his magic touch, but also hope that Sow doesnt
finish close to him in the remaining races. The F1Time
community was kept waiting when TaBu postponed the Mondays
race to Wednesday causing the Season end to be on Friday.

If we thought either RC or Sow would be on Pole, then we
are proved wrong by 'Bad Boy' Vitor. Vitor took the pole
with Felipe and RC behind him. Sow took a conservative 10th
place on the grid; mebbe an indication of different strategy.
The Race started and immediately Felipe took the lead from
Vitor. Jonny also made a good start gaining two positions
and with that pushing RC to fourth. But oh! oh! oh! - Sow
dropped on the second lap and thats damn unlucky for Sow.
I ve heard that if something can go wrong, it always does
at the wrong moment. Now RC has to just finish the race and
Sow hopes that RC doesnt finish that high. But RC again
lost position and he was running fifth. Felipe was running a
5 stop strategy while Vitor and RC were on 3 stops. Vitor
took the lead when Felipe pitted and then kept the lead till
the end. The race saw Gimbutas and Su leading for some laps
as they were on an extended 3 stop and 2 stop strategies
respectively. RC also made up his lost postions in the pitstops.
Vitor won the race comfortably with almost half a minute gap
from RC. RC in doing so became the DC leader over Sow by 2
points. Sow's brother Su claimed the remaining podium spot.

With the Promotion spots already under them, the Stephen-Nezam
duo just relaxed in Adelaide. Teammie Thomas got the POLE
followed by Reindl, Bakas and R Mandler. Lanca also got into
the action after the 15 race layoff. He had spent around 40M
for this race and also got the best driver in c2. The result
was a good fifth spot on the grid. But the time was much more
good considering the fact that he was on two stops compared to
others' three stops and Thomas' five stops. The money mattered
and the strategy and Lanca pocketed his first points and first
win of c2. Reindl came second and R Mandler was third, again on
two stops. Stefan, Thomas, Bakas, Tej and Ivan took the remaining
positions.

posted by [ - Aswin - ] @ 9:43 am