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:
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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(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.
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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...