Pontiac51's Slot Race 26-07-99

This was the first race on the new 4-lane track and what a race it was. The track was tested by everybody in the week before race, so everyone had a good knowledge of the track except "Steefan", he was the rookie of the race. 4 drivers never raced before: "Nadja", "Christa",  "Tanja" and "Steefan". The other 4 drivers, well, call them pro's: "Mondial7", "Cray", "McRay" and "Pontiac51". The qualify (12 laps as usual) offered a surprise: "Mondial7" (track record holder) was beaten by "Nadja" and "Cray" and so he qualified third. The rest of the field looked like this:
 

Qualify Results
Pos.
Name
Nick
Time (secs)
1.
Nadejda Iossifova
Nadja
4.5586
2.
Didi Hackl
Cray
4.5625
3.
Peter Niederwieser
Mondial7
4.6084
4.
Robert Graf
Pontiac51
4.6172
5.
Raimund Guggenbichler
McRay
4.7734
6.
Christa Leitner
Christa
5.0547
7.
Tanja Bogner
Tanja
5.3281
8.
Stefan Wührer
Steefan
5.4375

So "Cray", "Pontiac51", "Christa" and "Steefan" competed in Round 1. Race was run as this: slowest driver chooses lane, fastest driver chooses car, then after 2 races in the same configuration the controllers are swapped, so everyone races each car on each lane for 2 times. This means 8 races (3 laps long) per round. Points for each race: 10 for 1st, 6 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd, 3 for 4th, 0 for DNF.
 
 

Round 1
Driver\Lane
01
 01
 02
02
 03
 03
 04
04 
pts.
up/down
Steefan
4
0
 0
 4
 0
 6
 6
 10
30
down
Cray
0
0
0
 6
 10
 10
 10
 0
36
up
Christa
6
4
 4
 0
6
 0
 6
 6
32
down
Pontiac51
0
0
0
10
 10
 0
 10
 10
40
up

(Explanation: "Steefan" started the first 2 races on lane 1, Cray on lane 2, "Christa" had lane 3 and "Pontiac51" lane 4. In the 1st race "Steefan" finished 3rd, 4 pts., "Cray" did a DNF, "Christa" was 2nd, 6 pts. and "Pontiac51" won and recieved 10pts.)

"Nadja", "Mondial7", "McRay" and "Tanja" competed in Round 2. "Mondial7" was again unbeatable, "Nadja" tried to keep up but lost this duell often as the stats show.
 
 

Round 2
Driver\Lane
01
 01
 02
02
 03
 03
 04
04 
pts.
up/down
Mondial7
10
10
 10
10
4
 4
 6
 10
64
up
Nadja
0
0
0
 0
 0
 0
 10
 10
20
down
Tanja
0
0
 0
 0
0
 6
 0
 6
12
down
McRay
0
0
6
6
 10
 6
 0
 4
32
up

After a break and a pitstop all drivers and cars were ready for the B-Final. Here all "Downers" would compeat against each other. These were "Christa" (32pts), "Steefan" (30pts), "Nadja" (20pts) and "Tanja" (12pts). The finals were much more exciting then round 1 and round 2. The cars kept in a bunch the whole race. Notice that in every race only 3 cars reached the finish so points for a 4th finish were never recieved.
 
 
 

B-Final
Driver\Lane
01
 01
 02
02
 03
 03
 04
04 
pts.
final pos.
Steefan
0
0
 6
 4
 6
 10
 10
 10
46
6.
Nadja
0
0
10
 0
 10
 10
 10
 6
46
5.
Tanja
0
0
 4
 0
4
 6
 0
 6
20
8.
Christa
0
0
4
4
 6
 6
 6
 10
36
7.

(Explanation: "Nadja" and "Steefan" equaled, so a tiebreaker was driven, (single race with 3 laps), which was won by "Nadja")

The A-Final was another clean run for "Mondial7", not only beacuse his strongest competitor "Pontiac51" flew of the track in 6 of 8 races, but also because he finished 1st in 5 races and 2nd in 3 and he never did a DNF the whole race.
 
 

A-Final
Driver\Lane
01
 01
 02
02
 03
 03
 04
04 
pts.
final pos.
Mondial7
6
6
 10
 10
 6
 10
 10
 10
68
1.
Pontiac51
0
0
0
 0
 6
 0
 0
 4
10
4.
Cray
0
0
 0
 4
0
 10
 0
 6
20
3.
McRay
4
0
10
6
 0
 6
 10
 0
36
2.

So, again "Mondial7" won the "Grand Prix Champion Trophy". The "Runner-Up" of the race was "McRay", the "Pole Position Trophy" and the "Fastest Lady on the Track Trophy" was for "Nadja". "Tanja" recieved the "Steadiness Award". Then a winner's photo was taken, followed by the classical shower of champagne. "Mondial7" does get practice in this :-). Congrats to all drivers and cu next race...