Adam Wisniewski makes it three in a row
After the tight circuit of South City we headed to the circuit of Jamaica, where the fourth race of the season were held on the Fern Bay Black track. Both Adam Wisniewski and Quentin Benoît wanted to be in the top position of the world championship after this race and their teams SPDO Racing and Redline Racing were also fighting for the lead in the Team Championship.
On the 4.1 mi long circuit Jarl Teien of NordicUK Racing set the fastest lap in the first qualifying, when the fuel tanks of the cars were empty and everything was focused on getting into the top ten and therefore taking part in the second part of qualifying. This time Erwin Caffé and Lims Chebbi as ninth and tenth were able to secure a spot in Q2 by a margin of just two and three hundredth of a second against Oscar Hardwick who started from the eleventh position. In Q2 everyone had to drive under Parc Fermé conditions, that’s why the lap times increased by two seconds. Wisniewski was able to achieve pole position just like two weeks ago in South City, followed by both Sonicrealms Racing drivers Sascha Riegler and Christian Felder. Riegler just missed pole position by +0.01 seconds.
At the start a conservative strategy proved to be the right one in the past year and this time was no exception, leading the field into turn one without an incident. Wisniewski lead in front of Riegler, behind them Felder went wide which gave Patrick Kreutz a chance to move into third position. In the following chicane Felder lost downforce behind Kreutz and slid into the tyre barrier. Benoît could avoid Felder, but Hörenbaum and Teien hit Felder, leaving him and Hörenbaum spinning off the track, but both were able to continue their race. Yann Laprevotte followed them over the grass. Oscar Hardwick made the same mistake two turns later, almost took Chebbi with him, but he was able to continue as well. Hardwick was also the first victim of the famous Fern bay chicane midway through the first lap, lost due to the damage his control over the car in the next left turn and spun after another hit by Matt Maslen off the track.
Wisniewski lead in front of Riegler, Kreutz and Benoît, who could move up to second after mistakes by both German drivers. There were no other possibilities to overtake someone in front except waiting for a mistake, which is why overtaking manoeuvres were scarce articles. That also led to Lims Chebbi keeping a group of other drivers behind him for the first laps just like in South City, but after three laps Teien, Wójcik, Storhaug and Felder a few minutes later found a way past him. Chebbi then lost his car in turn five shortly before the bridge and had to bring his car slowly back to the pits. A few laps later he had to retire like his teammate Laprevotte, even Felder and Teien shared the same destiny. Between the top four and the midfield Pasi Juvani and Erwin Caffé drove on positions five and six unchallenged, but they also had to end their races after a few incidents lately at midrace. These and further retirements led to a failure rate of more than fifty percent, which is even higher than at the South City races.
The first pit stops didn’t change the order at the front, but Riegler had the fastest pace after that and soon was overtaking Benoît and Wisniewski and after that he set a few fastest laps to extend his lead against the duo. Because Wisniewski and Benoît were driving close to each other, Kreutz could catch up to them. He and Riegler went to the pits for the second time at the middle of the race and were facing misfortune from that point on. Kreutz had to stop again six laps later for the third time to repair his car and Riegler spun at turn fifteen off the track, avoided the impact but nonetheless retired from the race, leaving the race win to either Wisniewski or Benoît. Wisniewski was still leading, but his suspension was close to collapsing and there was still a third of the race to go.
Behind the top three Maciej Wójcik and Lars Ole Storhaug were in a battle for fourth position, which was lost by Storhaug after a mistake at the exit of turn seventeen shortly after his second pit stop when he lost the car after getting on the grass with the outer rear tyre. Behind them sixth placed Adrian Bakaj got under pressure by Carsten Hörenbaum, who was driving at the end of the field after his accident at the start and a drive-through penalty. But he had no problems taking over the sixth position from Bakaj, who lost control of his car at turn five after that and had to get back to the pits with a damaged car. Ian Maslen benefitted from this and gave eighth and last position to Bakaj.
Leader Wisniewski had to prevent his suspension from damage that caused Benoît to push in the final ten laps of the race, but when he reduced the gap from ten to seven seconds, he made the same mistake like Storhaug and Bakaj between turns four and five. The way back to the pits cost him about two minutes where he got a drive through penalty as well, that didn’t affect his position at the end. Kreutz won a position thanks to the mistake of Benoît and finished second behind Wisniewski, who was now able to save his car in the final laps to win the race.
Adam Wisniewski now took over the lead from Quentin Benoît in the World Championship with an advantage of five points, followed by Patrick Kreutz and Maciej Wójcik who have both 36 points. In the Team Championship SPDO Racing is leading Redline Racing and Raptor Gaming.
The next race is already on this Saturday on 5 June 2010 at the Westhill International Reversed circuit and will be broadcasted live on MultiBC at 17:30 GMT.
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After the tight circuit of South City we headed to the circuit of Jamaica, where the fourth race of the season were held on the Fern Bay Black track. Both Adam Wisniewski and Quentin Benoît wanted to be in the top position of the world championship after this race and their teams SPDO Racing and Redline Racing were also fighting for the lead in the Team Championship.
On the 4.1 mi long circuit Jarl Teien of NordicUK Racing set the fastest lap in the first qualifying, when the fuel tanks of the cars were empty and everything was focused on getting into the top ten and therefore taking part in the second part of qualifying. This time Erwin Caffé and Lims Chebbi as ninth and tenth were able to secure a spot in Q2 by a margin of just two and three hundredth of a second against Oscar Hardwick who started from the eleventh position. In Q2 everyone had to drive under Parc Fermé conditions, that’s why the lap times increased by two seconds. Wisniewski was able to achieve pole position just like two weeks ago in South City, followed by both Sonicrealms Racing drivers Sascha Riegler and Christian Felder. Riegler just missed pole position by +0.01 seconds.
At the start a conservative strategy proved to be the right one in the past year and this time was no exception, leading the field into turn one without an incident. Wisniewski lead in front of Riegler, behind them Felder went wide which gave Patrick Kreutz a chance to move into third position. In the following chicane Felder lost downforce behind Kreutz and slid into the tyre barrier. Benoît could avoid Felder, but Hörenbaum and Teien hit Felder, leaving him and Hörenbaum spinning off the track, but both were able to continue their race. Yann Laprevotte followed them over the grass. Oscar Hardwick made the same mistake two turns later, almost took Chebbi with him, but he was able to continue as well. Hardwick was also the first victim of the famous Fern bay chicane midway through the first lap, lost due to the damage his control over the car in the next left turn and spun after another hit by Matt Maslen off the track.
Wisniewski lead in front of Riegler, Kreutz and Benoît, who could move up to second after mistakes by both German drivers. There were no other possibilities to overtake someone in front except waiting for a mistake, which is why overtaking manoeuvres were scarce articles. That also led to Lims Chebbi keeping a group of other drivers behind him for the first laps just like in South City, but after three laps Teien, Wójcik, Storhaug and Felder a few minutes later found a way past him. Chebbi then lost his car in turn five shortly before the bridge and had to bring his car slowly back to the pits. A few laps later he had to retire like his teammate Laprevotte, even Felder and Teien shared the same destiny. Between the top four and the midfield Pasi Juvani and Erwin Caffé drove on positions five and six unchallenged, but they also had to end their races after a few incidents lately at midrace. These and further retirements led to a failure rate of more than fifty percent, which is even higher than at the South City races.
The first pit stops didn’t change the order at the front, but Riegler had the fastest pace after that and soon was overtaking Benoît and Wisniewski and after that he set a few fastest laps to extend his lead against the duo. Because Wisniewski and Benoît were driving close to each other, Kreutz could catch up to them. He and Riegler went to the pits for the second time at the middle of the race and were facing misfortune from that point on. Kreutz had to stop again six laps later for the third time to repair his car and Riegler spun at turn fifteen off the track, avoided the impact but nonetheless retired from the race, leaving the race win to either Wisniewski or Benoît. Wisniewski was still leading, but his suspension was close to collapsing and there was still a third of the race to go.
Behind the top three Maciej Wójcik and Lars Ole Storhaug were in a battle for fourth position, which was lost by Storhaug after a mistake at the exit of turn seventeen shortly after his second pit stop when he lost the car after getting on the grass with the outer rear tyre. Behind them sixth placed Adrian Bakaj got under pressure by Carsten Hörenbaum, who was driving at the end of the field after his accident at the start and a drive-through penalty. But he had no problems taking over the sixth position from Bakaj, who lost control of his car at turn five after that and had to get back to the pits with a damaged car. Ian Maslen benefitted from this and gave eighth and last position to Bakaj.
Leader Wisniewski had to prevent his suspension from damage that caused Benoît to push in the final ten laps of the race, but when he reduced the gap from ten to seven seconds, he made the same mistake like Storhaug and Bakaj between turns four and five. The way back to the pits cost him about two minutes where he got a drive through penalty as well, that didn’t affect his position at the end. Kreutz won a position thanks to the mistake of Benoît and finished second behind Wisniewski, who was now able to save his car in the final laps to win the race.
Adam Wisniewski now took over the lead from Quentin Benoît in the World Championship with an advantage of five points, followed by Patrick Kreutz and Maciej Wójcik who have both 36 points. In the Team Championship SPDO Racing is leading Redline Racing and Raptor Gaming.
The next race is already on this Saturday on 5 June 2010 at the Westhill International Reversed circuit and will be broadcasted live on MultiBC at 17:30 GMT.
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