Round 2 took place on the very tricky
Aston Cup layout(AS24, a combination of AS1 and AS2), with the FOX.
spdo Racing's
Matias Pikkarainen was on pole. However, 3rd and 2nd place starter, real life 2010 Formula Ford World Champion
Dennis Lind(Dennis Inc.) and FOX specialist
Teemu Iivonen(
ineX Racing) passed him at lap 1. The order stayed the same up front, until Iivonen passed his Danish rival for the lead at lap 10.
Lind then stayed no more than 2 second from the lead, and made a concrete attack at 4 laps to go.
Iivonen looked to be able to hold on, but he then span and almost rolled at the AS1 turn 1, letting
Lind take an impressive victory. Behind him come an ineX train in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th, all less than 6 seconds from the winner. 2009, 2010 and 2011 Kyoto 250 winner
Phil Diaz comes in 2nd, having started only 11th. Then poor
Iivonen comes 3rd, in front of championship leader
Joe Holmes and fastest lap setter
Robin Friskopps. "Best of the rest" is 2010 iTCC champion
Karolis Kliaudaitis, finishing in 6th more than 26 seconds behind, having beaten
Jack Sedgewick for less than a tenth.
At the drivers' championship,
ineX Racing's
Joe Holmes keeps the lead with 83 points. Then comes
spdo Racing's
Egon Liibeon with 58, and
Phil Diaz(
ineX Racing) with 57. 3 drivers are tieing for 4th with 50 points: round 2 winner Dennis Lind,
Karolis Kliaudaitis, and the very surprising Jack
Sedgewick(
Fred Loves Pie). Everything remains open however, with the worst result being dropped for everyone at the end of the season.
The situation is a lot clearer at the teams' championship, with
ineX Racing and
spdo Racing topping the sheet with 148 and 101 points each. The battle for the 3rd podium slot is a lot closer, with
Angel Power Racing,
Tiger Express Motorsports,
Dennis Inc.,
Sonicrealms Racing,
My3id Gaming and
Fred Loves Pie all grouped in 13 points.
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They said...
Joe Holmes(ineX Racing. Round 1: 1st, Round 2: 4th): "
Round 1 was a great round for me, grabbed pole, the win and fastest lap. Round 2 was a loupe harder with only getting 6th in qualy but a close 4th place in the race after having a spin."
Dennis Lind(Dennis Inc. Round 1: Absent, Round 2: 1st): "
First race I've done a long time, so I'm really satisfied comming back, and beating most of the top guys."
Karolis Kliaudaitis(My3id Gaming. Round 1: 9th, Round 2: 6th): "
Lots of fun so far, because the combos are new and the starting grid is full. Like the idea about superpole, not always the bests are in top as i experienced that myself the 1st round starting from back of the pack by little mistake."
Reno Kööts(spdo Racing. Round 1: DNF, Round 2: 8th): "My first two races has been totally shit. 1st round DNF because of roof and round 2, my own team-mate pushed me to spin falled down to laast place. Finished on 8th place with blowed up engine.. So, i hope that my races will be better in future. Thank you, it has been fun so far, only some foolish guys in the rear of grid."
Andris Pavars(Independant. Round 1: Absent, Round 2: 16th): "
Nothing much to say about the race. Came to server just 5min before the qualification start. Had not done any practice before for the race, so the qualification lap was the first one for me (didn't have time to get the setup, so just took the some setup from another track). Also first time playing LFS in an open config since the new patch has come out, so I didn't know the track either.
The start of the race was pretty chaotic as I was still trying to get use to the track, so I span and braked into grass few times. Then nothing much really happened, just kept driving and driving without any action at all."
Alexis Georg(French Street Racers. Round 1: 20th, Round 2: 17th): "
It's funny to discover some new tracks config with this championship! I had 2 bad superpole session due to too many pressure because we shouldn't make any mistake in the only lap you had, for qualify yourself for the race. For both race, I won many positions, but I have met again some problems, like racing incident at race 1, and some personal mistakes (spins) at race 2. I hope I will do better a qualify session, in the others rounds, and doing good races for scoring many points."
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