Xcite K.Egloff gets most points at Blackwood Layout

The first race of the OWRL MRT Cup 2009/10 gave us the promise of a close battle for the trophy. K.Egloff combined a 4th place finish with a hard contested win in the main to take the championship lead. But the Xcite-driver better not look in his mirrors too much, because others are close by. Div A champion Raptor | Chris is just 6 points behind, the SpeedCore team follows with PSantos and Luísíi. JPeace certainly will have a say in the rest of the season. He showed his speed in race 1 with a start to finish win but a false start in the main race costed him valuable points.

On server 2 the race wins were shared by pod-drivers Krutch (sprint) and Pio (main race), but best of them all was R4F Lysergic. Two podium finishes meant he showed the consistency that brigns him up to 11th in the standings.

The next race, the final OWRL race of 2009, is at South City Chicane on 30 december. You can signup under upcoming events until 17:00 CET on race day.

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RAPTOR | Chris, JPeace share race wins at SO Chicane

Round two of the MRT Cup has given the competition a new leader. Two drivers clearly stood above the rest in the races on the streets. RAPTOR | Chris took pole position and dominated the sprint race. JPeace came in second, meaning he had to start 7th for the main race. Using smart race craft and avoiding the minor incidents that took place, he got to the front by the end of lap 1 and never looked back. Chris finished that race in second so that both he and JPeace and took about as many points from the event. Chris overtook the previous leader Xcite K. Egloff in the standings, where K. Egloff still remains second place after a podium in the main race. JPeace got himself in the top three and the fourth and final driver that has a realistic chance for the title is n!Michi, finishing third in the sprint. These four drivers will fight for the title.

On server 2, Timo won the sprint race and then was helped by an incident in front of him in the main race, where two drivers fighting for P1 tangled and ended up upside down and in the wall. This handed Timo the main race victory as well.

The final round of the OWRL MRT Cup 2009/10 is at Fern Bay Gold rev. The race is 2 January (in earlier communications we erroneously said 3 January, but it is Saturday 2 January). Here the OWRL MRT Cup will be decided. You can signup under upcoming events until 17:00 CET on race day.

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Xcite K. Egloff crowned OWRL MRT Cup champion

Consistency wins. That is the conclusion of the OWRL MRT Cup 2009/10. Xcite K. Egloff did not had the speed to win either the sprint or main race in the final round of the cup, but unlike the other big hitters he kept his car on track at all times, was content to finish on the podium in both races and that was enough to win the title.



Before the final round four candidates for the title had emerged. Reigning Div A champion RAPTOR | Chris had the lead in the standings but did not make the final round, so he was sure to lose it. Second in the championship was Xcite K. Egloff, followed by probably the fastest of the four JPeace. Fourth and final candidate was n!Michi. One of the three racing championship elects looked determined in the sprint race. Starting in second, JPeace took the lead in lap 5. But then his hopes quickly came to an end. A small mistake in the corner leading onto the bridge - the one with the wall on the outside - and JPeace flew in the air. He followed this up with another DNF in the main race. Jpeace was out.




That left Michi and K. Egloff. Michi did not had a good start in the sprint race with a spin in lap 1. He fell back to midfield. Thinks were looking up for K. Egloff, especially after a nasty crash involving [SR] FireDragon and RAPTOR | Intre. Whilst fighting for P1 FireDragon made a small mistake in the first chicane sending him towards the wall. Intre looked like he was handed the lead but FireDragon's wall ride shooted him back towards the racing line exactly at where Intre was driving. Both FireDragon and Intre were taken out in this bizarre incident. Instead of Intre it was K. Egloff who took the lead. However n!spanneman overtook him and took the sprint race win. To make matters worse, Michi got himself back to P3. Egloff still needed a good finish in the main race to win the title.



On to the main race. After a clean start n!Michi and Xcite K. Egloff found themselves together at P6 and P7 having to work their way to the front. They both did and what developed was a tense fight between what was certain to be the top 2 in the championship. Even though the Xcite-driver could afford to finish behind Michi, this is racing and no one likes to concede. If the fight resulted in a crash the championship might have looked differently, but both kept it clean. K. Egloff got the better hand over Michi as both drivers got into the top three positions. Up front TeW GAW had built himself a big enough lead and he would go on to win the race. In the final part of the race Michi put in a final effort to at least beat K. Egloff in this race. He did, Egloff conceded his place knowing that third place and another podium finish in this season would be enough to bring home the cup. With six top four finishes, Mr. consistency K. Egloff is the OWRL MRT Cup 2009/10 champion. Congratulations!

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Congratulations Kevin, you did a great job over the whole season.
Also gratz to n!Michi and RAPTOR | Chris for the 2nd and 3rd positions.

I'm also quite happy with my result, ended as P4 in the final standings, my best result I've ever had in a league.

Gratz to podium. Thanks for nice races.