~Race Results~
- BEN TUSTING ---------
10 points
- SEBASTIEN LEVRET --- 6 points
- HONK ------------------ 4 points
- RHYS GARDINER ------ 3 points
- BDUDDY --------------- 2 points
- DAVE STEPHENSON --- 1 points
- KYLE EVERS ------------
- MATT. GUTTERIDGE ---
- NIELS PEDERSEN ------
- DAVID BUXTON --------
- PETER DUIVELAAR -----
~Championship Standings~
- BEN TUSTING------------------- 10 points
- DAVE STEPHENSON--------- 9 points
- SEBASTIEN LEVRET---------- 8 points
- HONK --------------------------------- 8 points
- RESI RESPATI-------------------- 6 points
- NIELS PEDERSEN-------------- 3 points
- RHYS GARDINER--------------- 3 points
- BDUDDY----------------------------- 2 points
- PETER DUIVILAAR------------- 1 point
- KYLE EVERS----------------------- 0 points
- RICCARDO ROSSET---------- 0 points
- MARCUS PROBERT------------ 0 points
- MATTHEW GUTTERIDGE-- 0 points
- DAVID BUXTON----------------- 0 points
- VILJAR PARTS-------------------- 0 points
- BERT VAN WAES---------------- 0 points
- GARRY PULLEN------------------ 0 points
~Teams Standings~
- JAGUAR------------------- 17 points
- WILLIAMS ---------------- 13 points
- SAUBER ------------------- 8 points
- FERRARI ----------------- 6 points
- RENAULT------------------ 4 points
- ARROWS------------------- 2 points
- JORDAN-------------------- 0 points
- MCLAREN------------------ 0 points
- MINARDI------------------- 0 points
- TOYOTA-------------------- 0 points
- BAR--------------------------- 0 points
~Notes and Other Stuff~
As his reward, Ben Tusting gets a +2 points
Ben Tusting becomes the first driver to acheive 10 points :woot:
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~Lap by Lap~
~Sepang, Malaysia~
Laps: 56
Lap Record: 1.34.233
~Grid~
Pre-race: After a World Motorsport Council meeting, Viljar Parts is DQ’d after it transpired that he used fuel with too much octane in it at the Australian Grand Prix. Riccardo Rosset also misses the Malaysian Race after a front wing irregularity in Australia
Lap 1: Pole sitter Gutteridge gets a dreadful start, and Respati uses all of his skill to avoid smashing into Matthew of the start line, but as he does he loses control of the car and hits the wall at turn one. Tusting get’s an amazing start, jumping into second from 7th place.
~Ranking after Lap 1/56~
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Dave Stephenson
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Ben Tusting
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Matthew Gutteridge
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Niels Pedersen
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Honk
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Sebastien Levret
Lap 6: Gutteridge isn’t doing very well still, slipping even further down, into 6th, behind Pedersen, Honk and Sebastien Levret. On the run down to turn four, Tusting pulls out of Stephenson’s slipstream, and takes the lead.
Lap 11: Levret is on a charge, overtaking Honk and Pedersen. Near the end of the lap, Minardi’s Probert has a right rear blow-out, sending him out of the race. Rhys Gardiner also moves past Gutteridge, his pole clearly a red herring.
~Ranking after Lap 11/56~
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Ben Tusting
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Dave Stephenson
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Sebastien Levret
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Niels Pedersen
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Honk
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Rhys Gardiner
Lap 15: Tusting and Stephenson pits, but a tyre that won’t come out of its warmer sends his chances of retaining his lead to the dogs. Gardiner is on a charge, as is Honk, and they are reigning in Pedersen at an incredible Race
Lap 18: Pedersen, Honk and Gardiner pit, and Gutteridge briefly retakes the lead. Pullen tries to pit, but a brake linkage problem means he hits the pit wall, and retires.
~Ranking after Lap 11/56~
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Matthew Gutteridge
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Peter Duivilaar
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]David Buxton
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Ben Tusting
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Dave Stephenson
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Sebastien Levret
Lap 25: Gutteridge and Duivilaar pit. Stephenson knocks off the front wing near the hairpin and is forced to pit, ruining a good prospect of a race victory.
Lap 31: Tusting is beginning to pull away. Bduddy now is really pushing. With Stephenson seemingly out of the picture, he sniffs a point of two, moving past Buxton into 9th
~Ranking after Lap 31/56~
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Ben Tusting
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Sebastien Levret
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Honk
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Rhys Gardiner
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Niels Pedersen
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Peter Duivilaar
Lap 35: Pedersen is off off off! At turn one. He recovers, but any points hope is all but lost.
Lap 40: Tusting, Levret and Honk pit. The Jaguar pit crew, flawlessly get Honk out in the lead, with Tusting second and Levret third.
~Ranking after Lap 40/56~
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Rhys Gardiner
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Peter Duivilaar
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Bduddy
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Honk
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Ben Tusting
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Dave Stephenson
Lap 45: Rhys Gardiner, bduddy and Duivilaar pit, leaving Honk once again in the lead. There’s going to be an amazing battle to the finish, any one of six drivers could win, from Duivilaar’s Renault, to bduddy’s Arrows!
Lap 53: Still, six drivers battle for the victory, swapping the lead almost corner by corner. All six are on the ragged edge, and could trigger a massive crash at any moment. How will this turn out?
Lap 56: Wow! Duivilaar took the lead into turn one, but like his team-mate, lost control and struggled to get back to track, losing over half a minute escaping the gravel. In the end, Ben Tusting managed to cross the finish line, with Levret, Honk, Gardiner and bduddy all separated by a second.
~Ranking after Lap 56/56~
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]Ben Tusting
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Sebastien Levret
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Honk
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Rhys Gardiner
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]bduddy
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Dave Stephenson
7)[FONT="] [/FONT]Kyle Evers
8)[FONT="] [/FONT]Matthew Gutteridge
9)[FONT="] [/FONT]Niels Pedersen
10)[FONT="] [/FONT]David Buxton
11)[FONT="] [/FONT]Peter Duivilaar
12)[FONT="] [/FONT]Bert Van Waes
DNF:
Resi Respati- crash
Garry Pullen- brakes
Marcus Probert- tyre blow out
DQ:
Viljar Parts- Too much octane in fuel
Riccardo Rosset- Front Wing Irregularity
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~NEXT EVENT~
~Round Three (Intalagos, Brazil)~
Laps: 71
Lap Record: 1:11.473 (J.P Montoya)
And the final race before the start of the European season takes place at Brazil. Already a great battle between Jaguar and Williams is beginning to form, and the twisty Interlagos circuit provides the perfect setting for a battle to really take shape.