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Written by Andreas Hultgren   
Monday, 18 October 2010 21:44

Marcin Skrzypczak, Roaring Pipes Manaics - 1st

Almost perfect race this time, some problems only during lapping but no damage at all. Whole race I was lonely and fought to not loose concentration. I made it and brought P1 to the finish.

 

Massimo Martin, Corse Onine Racing - 7th

Good race for me tonight. Surprised to start in 4th. I started the racde safely in 3rd, due to a disconnection. I kept my position but when I lost my concentration (probably due to the rain) I did some errors at the turn before the last one. I had a little mistake with Kevin at  turn 1. I didn't think he'd come back to the left, then I push hard on my brakes to avoid contact - at the end I lost my car and two or more position. Then I have more good fights and some errors... At the end a good result for the COR team keeping 7th place.

 

Michael Hart-Jones, AnE Racing - 18th

The race was eventful. The pace lap was a little dangerous with lots of changes in pace in front, but no contact that I could see. I did see that the Green flag was very late from where I was and this was probably not helped by the number of cars strewn across the track. First lap went as expected, I followed the pack without much trouble and kept a good watch on Kevin Bell and Ludovic Cogotti wrestling behind. I saw a loverly pass behind me and took a little thump from behind, didn't seem to cause any problems and I continued pushing. Around lap 6 was the first bit of fun. I ran slightly wide in to the final corner and punctured my front left tyre. I managed to pull in and change the tyres. However on leaving the pits I managed to puncture the front right, this left me slow through the lap to then replace the tyres again. The only other point of interest was the l;ittle love tap that Wesley Hartog gave me. It was a little unfortunate but as I came out of "4th corner" I got the back of my car on the curb and had to back off to regain control. This put me off line and made my entry to "S curve" a little odd. I can see it did more damage to Wesley than me but was a little off putting. Other than trying to keep out of the way of everyone I had a few taps and a couple of close calls with Marcin, sorry about those. I misjudged the edge of the track under braking and lost the back end both times.

 

Lee Downham, Black Visor Motorsports - 11th

Not raced for about 4 months until this week (1 race the other night at Algarve to warm up for this) so not too disappointed with tonight's effort, especially considering my engine was slow and at 77% as soon as I joined the grid, then my car got damaged and engine degraded even more to about 72% in the chaos that happened right in front of me as we crossed the start line on the rolling start. Not sure what happened there but guess someone deserves a wrap across the knuckles for something... I think a couple of you around me might have noticed that all race my poor battered car was not so quick in a straight line, and I guess due to the knocks it was not doing so well at going round that the final parabolic corner, at least it wasn't behaving as it had done in any of the practice laps I didHad some nice battles... a few knocks but to be expected, then there was a slightly weird almost poltergeist moment where my car seemed to take on a life of its own and I spun out sideways (I will blame a mental blip on my part and the rain for this, but seriously wondered whether there might have been some strange lag effect of the server causing a pushing effect on my car?) ... whatever, I lost myself a lot of time and a couple of places recovering, and dented my car a little more. alt Finished 11th, which was not a bad result all things considered.

 

Kevin Clark, Gameracer FlatOut Racing - 2nd

What a race. Hard track with bad conditions not a good mix. The start of the race was tight, just had to try keep a good steady pace but not easy with so many fast guys around you. Then the rain came to mix things up and with wearing tyres and wet track it was a real fight to keep on the line. Had a few good battles but was mostly with Robin Johansson. I stayed with softs all race and it seemed others might of done different as could see there grip levels dropping fast witch aloud me to close in.

 

Mikael Larsson, Blue Flag Racing - 5th

Not much to say about the race. Made some small mistakes and ended up out of track but never hit anything so the car never got damaged. First pit stop was for once a great success, I somehow gained a few spots. With about 15-20 minutes left I was in 6th and was closing in on Massimo and a gap of ~7s to 7th. Quite comfortable. As Massimo said, he made a mistake when Marcin was about to lap him and I could pass. But not far from the end, Yuri was coming in a hurry and I never thought I could make it because my tires were in a really bad condition. A mistake from me and he passed, a mistake from him and I were back in 5th. At this point, with only 2 laps to go I was taking it easy not to make any mistakes and started to drive defensive. It paid off and I finished in 5th! A great success for me and well needed point for our team