Jürgen Gießler of Innovate Racing was leading the time sheets prior to the Qualifying and left no doubt that he was the favorite for this race after stunning the rest of the field with P1 after both qualifyings. Wisniewski and Silhanek lined up behind him. Peter Hopkins could have been there also, but an incident in the pitlane at the beginning of Q2 leaves him with no time which means P10 for him. But the race would be the longest of the season so nothing is lost, but chances are high on South City Long that everything could be over in turn 2.
When the lights went out Gießler could get away from the cars behind him, but he almost runs wide in turn 2 and gives Wisniewski a chance to attack. Behind the top three Matthias Agari overtakes Southword for fourth place and Pedro Marques almost spins Milan Radonic. At the next turn Marques brakes too late and hits 1stBFA’s driver Matthias Felix in the back who spins and stops on the racing line, creating a pile up but the rest of the drivers manages to get past them without harm. After the eventful start the field has sorted itself after the first sector.
What no one knows is that the big accident is still coming. Southword and Agari are changing positions on the start finish straight and under the bridge Southword loses downforce on the front and spins at 300 kph. While Hörenbaum is able to slow down avoiding the spinning car Zivkovic doesn’t react in time and hits Hörenbaum who flies through the air and can’t continue his race with a heavy damaged car. Radonic isn’t that lucky either and crosses the path of Southwords car, but both cars get away with relatively mid damage. Once the smoke vanished away, it was the usual race often seen in Monaco with small mistakes by several drivers which spread the grid over the whole race track.
Agari and Wisniewski were the first drivers to do a pit stop. While Agari planned to do three stops, the majority were on two stops with changing tyres only once. Gießler wanted to change his tyres on both stops and after everyone went to the pits he still had fuel for seven more laps. That enhanced with Pole-Position, because every driver that makes it to the second part of qualifying has to drive with race fuel. He didn’t even lose his lead after his second stop, but his right damper at the rear was suffering during the race and shortly after his second stop it happenend. On the railroad that crosses the track before turn one his damper broke and let him crash into the wall. Gießlers race was over and Wisniewski was the new leader. Behind him were two drivers with different strategies: Agari as mentionend planning three stops and Martin Silhanek doing just two stops without even changing the tyres. Silhanek is able to save his tyres thorugh the race so Agari has to be happy with the third place. Wisniewski, who took fresh tyres at his last stop can drive freely to his second win of the season.
Nelson Marques finished fourth in front of Peter Hopkins and Nenad Zivkovic. Both were on a three stop strategy followed by Damon Ryder who drove a rather unspectacular race in front of Matthias Felix who gets the last point after he spun after the start and fighting the whole race with Milan Radonic.
Wisniewski is still leading the championship nine points ahead of Nelson Marques and Dave Southword, who announced his retirement after the race. Like in the drivers championship 1stBFA is leading the Team championship after four of thirteen races. Next race will be on 6th June at Blackwood GP.
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When the lights went out Gießler could get away from the cars behind him, but he almost runs wide in turn 2 and gives Wisniewski a chance to attack. Behind the top three Matthias Agari overtakes Southword for fourth place and Pedro Marques almost spins Milan Radonic. At the next turn Marques brakes too late and hits 1stBFA’s driver Matthias Felix in the back who spins and stops on the racing line, creating a pile up but the rest of the drivers manages to get past them without harm. After the eventful start the field has sorted itself after the first sector.
What no one knows is that the big accident is still coming. Southword and Agari are changing positions on the start finish straight and under the bridge Southword loses downforce on the front and spins at 300 kph. While Hörenbaum is able to slow down avoiding the spinning car Zivkovic doesn’t react in time and hits Hörenbaum who flies through the air and can’t continue his race with a heavy damaged car. Radonic isn’t that lucky either and crosses the path of Southwords car, but both cars get away with relatively mid damage. Once the smoke vanished away, it was the usual race often seen in Monaco with small mistakes by several drivers which spread the grid over the whole race track.
Agari and Wisniewski were the first drivers to do a pit stop. While Agari planned to do three stops, the majority were on two stops with changing tyres only once. Gießler wanted to change his tyres on both stops and after everyone went to the pits he still had fuel for seven more laps. That enhanced with Pole-Position, because every driver that makes it to the second part of qualifying has to drive with race fuel. He didn’t even lose his lead after his second stop, but his right damper at the rear was suffering during the race and shortly after his second stop it happenend. On the railroad that crosses the track before turn one his damper broke and let him crash into the wall. Gießlers race was over and Wisniewski was the new leader. Behind him were two drivers with different strategies: Agari as mentionend planning three stops and Martin Silhanek doing just two stops without even changing the tyres. Silhanek is able to save his tyres thorugh the race so Agari has to be happy with the third place. Wisniewski, who took fresh tyres at his last stop can drive freely to his second win of the season.
Nelson Marques finished fourth in front of Peter Hopkins and Nenad Zivkovic. Both were on a three stop strategy followed by Damon Ryder who drove a rather unspectacular race in front of Matthias Felix who gets the last point after he spun after the start and fighting the whole race with Milan Radonic.
Wisniewski is still leading the championship nine points ahead of Nelson Marques and Dave Southword, who announced his retirement after the race. Like in the drivers championship 1stBFA is leading the Team championship after four of thirteen races. Next race will be on 6th June at Blackwood GP.
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