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F1Time - S19 - Race9 - Indianapolis, US

With the Season into its midstage now, certain patterns are
forming across the groups. The Title for c1 is limited to 3 racers
now. The Current Top3 seems to be the only challengers. Eld who was
considered a Big Favourite, isnt matching his fans' expectations.
The Teams were greeted with Wet Weather through out the weekend.
Mebbe the Hurricanes came from Florida direct to the F1Time track.
The track was dry for sometime when the Practice and Qualifying
happened.

If the Start of the current week was dominated by RC, Sow had the
latter half in his control. Eld who was battered a bit this season
by the 'New Challengers', showed what he was made of when he came
up with the fastest time in Warmup. Vitor had the second best time
followed by Sow. But RC made amends in the Qualification when he
stormed to pole beating Sow by just five-hundredths of a second.
Vitor was third and .083s was all that differentiating the three.
Sow had a great start when he came out first in the opening lap of
the race. Donatas Staukaskas also made a great start when he moved
up 7 positions to come behind RC. RC lost another six positions
in the next five laps. Mebbe his driver dont like wet track at all.
Staukaskas was on a 3 stop strategy while the others were on 2.
He pitted on Lap 18 and the top3 now read Sow,Eld and Lex. Sow and
Lex pitted on Lap24 . Then RC did his pit followed by Eld and woodi.
Vitor was the last to pit among the leaders and after the first round
stops, Sow was still leading with Eld, RC and Vitor behind him in
that order. But Vitor was slow in his second set of tyres. He lost
positions to Lex, Staukaskas and Woodi. Disaster struck for Eld on
Lap38, when he had to retire with an Engine Explosion. Lex managed
to get ahead of RC to move into second place. After the second
round of pits, RC regained that posn from Lex. But with Vitor
pitting late again, he managed to stay ahead of RC for the second
place. Vitor, RC and Lex were too close and was fighting for each
inch available. Sow in the meantime pulled out more than a minute
gap on them. Action started from Lap69,with jus 4 laps to go. Lex
and RC managed to get ahead of Vitor and those two were switching
positions as frequently as the traffic lights. The Last Lap
overtaking from RC saw him finish second and poor Lex had to
settle for third. But then its a remarkable season from Lex this
time around and i am quite surprised. Woodi came in fourth while
Vitor came in a lowly fifth.

Irman, who was my favourite for winning this season's DC in our
group, topped the Warmup charts in c2g1. He was followed by
C Reindl and L Mandler. But the Qualification saw JTix took
the pole from Irman. JTix who couldnt come to terms with any
CDs out there in the market and as a result was without some
of his sponsors. This Pole would give him some relief in that
perspective. My Teammate Thomas was in the second row of the grid
alongside L Mandler. Irman stormed into the lead when the race
started. edi, F Schmied and Stephen too made good starts which put
them in second, third and fourth positions respectively. But Schmied
had a short race at Indy, when he crashed with C Reindl. Only
Thomas was in a three stop strat as others went in with two stops.
Irman and L Mandler were the first to pit followed by Kondrat,
Mazeikis and Stefan. edi and Bakas stayed on a couple more laps to
minimise the Pitcrew advantage for Irman. Irman was leading followed
by edi and Bakas. The positions stayed the same after the second
round of stops as well. L Mandler who was running a strong 5th
had to bow out of the race due to an Engine Explosion. When Thomas
pitted for the third and the last time, he lost a position to Stefan.
And the race finished in the same order. Mikhail who ran a one stop
strat came sixth to add another 3 points to his impressive c2 season.

posted by [ - Aswin - ] @ 11:41 pm