Superior restart after summer break
After the two month summer break the next round was a fight for the points on the well-known Blackwood GP track. Despite the long break only 14 drivers showed up to the event, nevertheless great skill was needed on track to gain points. With the pole position in Top10-qualy #1 - FPR|Matze laid the foundation for his terrific lights-to-flag victory, although he was challenged strongly at the end. So #1 - FPR|Matze's strong performance gives hima second consecutive victory and also the lead in the championship.
The first qualy session was the fight to get into the Top Ten. With 0:54.11 #15 - spdo|KiLl3r set the best time in this session, with a gap of 0.04 seconds to #24 - cyber|scipy. Here you can find the overview with the times for all drivers.
In the Top10-qualy session the drivers must use race fuel so the first hints of their strategy can be seen. Blackwood GP is a track where both 2-stop or 3-stop stategies can be good for the victory. All drivers proceeded as normal and changed to R2 tyres to nail down their fastest laps with the race set. Close to the end #1 - FPR|Matze overhauled #21 - NWRT|VeTeR with a time of 0:55.41 and took the pole position. The second row was filled with #24 - cyber|scipy followed by #15 - spdo|KiLl3r with a gap of only 0.01 seconds. Here you can find the overview of the Top10-qualy session.
At the beginning of the race #1 - FPR|Matze was able to hold his first place and with a fast pace he was able to increase the gap together with #24 - cyber|scipy. Unfortunately a spin in lap 4 caused #24 - cyber|scipy to fall to 11th place. Also #15 - spdo|KiLl3r recovered after a small mistake to resume the fight. Thus there was a hard fight for position 3 with #3 - ^P^|Storm, #5 - OMC|Jet and #21 - NWRT|VeTeR involved, with a sad end for #21 - NWRT|VeTeR spinning after contact in lap 11.
After half of the race you could able to see the strategies take shapeand without mistakes both 2-stop or 3-stop seemed to be good for victory. In the last third #25 - cyber|Misko with his 2-stop strategy was able to put a lot of pressure on the leader #1 - FPR|Matze, closing the gap to 0.39 seconds at the finish line, but he was just short of his first victory of the season.
Third place goes to #21 - NWRT|VeTeR showing up a clean performance and together with his team mate, they got 7 points for the team championship. Factory Phantom Racing gained 10 points through #1 - FPR|Matze and they lead the teams' championship. #3 - ^P^|Storm dropped to 2nd place in the drivers' championship with his 6th place here. #1 - FPR|Matze gains the lead of the drivers' championship and leads by 6 points. The detailed race stats you can find here and at the end the championship rankings
