After the summer break the league headed to Blackwood where the BF1 made his first public appearance to prepare for the seventh round of the OWRL F1. After his disqualification in the last race at Aston North Adam Wisniewski had to do something to keep the current championship leader Quentin Benoît in his sight, but his prior results in Blackwood weren’t as successful as they needed to be this time.
It was close in the first qualifying regarding who will move on to the next segment. This time Matt Maslen made it in the last second with the elimination of his teammate Ian into the top ten of Q1, but in Q2 the usual drivers were fighting for the pole position. With Ruben Blasco, a new driver from the CoRe Racing Team showed his speed but he got stuck in the gravel and therefore had to start from tenth position. Wisniewski could celebrate another pole position in front of both Redline Racing drivers Mika Raymond and Quentin Benoît with a gap of two tenth of a second. The second row was completed once again by Rob Logtenberg, who was just behind both of them.
At the start Wisniewski was able to stay in front of Benoît and Raymond, behind them Logtenberg missed his braking point in turn one and rejoined next to Pasi Juvani and Maciej Wójcik, but here wasn’t enough space for three cars, that’s why Wójcik spun out into the gravel before he continued with his race. At the front Benoît was hit by his teammate in the rear. Both spun and Raymond was hit by the car of Blasco, who got a little push by András Szabó. On the following straight Logtenberg used the slipstream of Christian Felder and Pasi Juvani to get past them over the grass, but released the throttle to avoid a collision. That left Felder and Juvani behind the leader Wisniewski who was already leading by a few seconds. At the end of the straight Ian Maslen touched the reserve driver of It’s all about speed, Steve Dent, slightly, who was hit heavily after that by Blasco. Dent spun and had to retire shortly after that.
After their accident Benoît and Raymond could work their way up again. Benoît was back on second place within ten laps, Raymond reached third position just before his first pit stop in front of Christian Felder. Logtenberg however had to give away his fourth position due to a very early first pit stop in lap thirteen. Juvani fell back from third to sixth as well. At the first set of pit stops Felder could get past Mika Raymond with a late pit stop and a few leading laps and was then directly behind Benoît, but wasn’t able to get past him in their second stint. Behind them Raymond got himself into trouble after a mistake because that offered Ruben Blasco a chance to attack him, but both awaited the second pit stops.
Wisniewski kept his lead after his second pit stop with a gap of more than thirty seconds, Blasco had a very long pit stop, that’s why Raymond was alone again on fourth position. Pasi Juvani took advantage of the situation and got between them on fifth position, but a small mistake by him gave Blasco his position back. The fight for position two was getting strange: Felder didn’t get past Benoît with a late pit stop again but was then invited by him to move in front. A short time later he threw away his position during the hunt of Benoit and after overlapping Erwin Caffé he got hit by the latter, who was still in his slipstream, and went in the gravel. He managed to keep his third position, but Raymond was just two seconds behind him.
Both were overlapped by the winner Adam Wisniewski, only Quentin Benoît on second position was the only one who was with him in the lead lap. The other points went to Matt Maslen on eighth position, followed by Logtenberg on ninth and Ian Maslen on tenth, giving Maslen F1 Racing the first time points for both cars in a race.
With the win Wisniewski could reduce the gap to current Championship leader Quentin Benoît to sixteen points. Maciej Wójcik on third position didn’t finish the race for the first time this season and is now fifty-five points behind Wisniewski. In the Team Championship Redline Racing is still leading in front of SPDO Racing and Sonicrealms Racing in third place, who got past It’s all about speed and Raptor-Gaming.
The next race is at 4th September on the Kyoto National course. The qualifying begins at 17:30 GMT, everything as always LIVE on MultiBC + XciteTV.
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It was close in the first qualifying regarding who will move on to the next segment. This time Matt Maslen made it in the last second with the elimination of his teammate Ian into the top ten of Q1, but in Q2 the usual drivers were fighting for the pole position. With Ruben Blasco, a new driver from the CoRe Racing Team showed his speed but he got stuck in the gravel and therefore had to start from tenth position. Wisniewski could celebrate another pole position in front of both Redline Racing drivers Mika Raymond and Quentin Benoît with a gap of two tenth of a second. The second row was completed once again by Rob Logtenberg, who was just behind both of them.
At the start Wisniewski was able to stay in front of Benoît and Raymond, behind them Logtenberg missed his braking point in turn one and rejoined next to Pasi Juvani and Maciej Wójcik, but here wasn’t enough space for three cars, that’s why Wójcik spun out into the gravel before he continued with his race. At the front Benoît was hit by his teammate in the rear. Both spun and Raymond was hit by the car of Blasco, who got a little push by András Szabó. On the following straight Logtenberg used the slipstream of Christian Felder and Pasi Juvani to get past them over the grass, but released the throttle to avoid a collision. That left Felder and Juvani behind the leader Wisniewski who was already leading by a few seconds. At the end of the straight Ian Maslen touched the reserve driver of It’s all about speed, Steve Dent, slightly, who was hit heavily after that by Blasco. Dent spun and had to retire shortly after that.
After their accident Benoît and Raymond could work their way up again. Benoît was back on second place within ten laps, Raymond reached third position just before his first pit stop in front of Christian Felder. Logtenberg however had to give away his fourth position due to a very early first pit stop in lap thirteen. Juvani fell back from third to sixth as well. At the first set of pit stops Felder could get past Mika Raymond with a late pit stop and a few leading laps and was then directly behind Benoît, but wasn’t able to get past him in their second stint. Behind them Raymond got himself into trouble after a mistake because that offered Ruben Blasco a chance to attack him, but both awaited the second pit stops.
Wisniewski kept his lead after his second pit stop with a gap of more than thirty seconds, Blasco had a very long pit stop, that’s why Raymond was alone again on fourth position. Pasi Juvani took advantage of the situation and got between them on fifth position, but a small mistake by him gave Blasco his position back. The fight for position two was getting strange: Felder didn’t get past Benoît with a late pit stop again but was then invited by him to move in front. A short time later he threw away his position during the hunt of Benoit and after overlapping Erwin Caffé he got hit by the latter, who was still in his slipstream, and went in the gravel. He managed to keep his third position, but Raymond was just two seconds behind him.
Both were overlapped by the winner Adam Wisniewski, only Quentin Benoît on second position was the only one who was with him in the lead lap. The other points went to Matt Maslen on eighth position, followed by Logtenberg on ninth and Ian Maslen on tenth, giving Maslen F1 Racing the first time points for both cars in a race.
With the win Wisniewski could reduce the gap to current Championship leader Quentin Benoît to sixteen points. Maciej Wójcik on third position didn’t finish the race for the first time this season and is now fifty-five points behind Wisniewski. In the Team Championship Redline Racing is still leading in front of SPDO Racing and Sonicrealms Racing in third place, who got past It’s all about speed and Raptor-Gaming.
The next race is at 4th September on the Kyoto National course. The qualifying begins at 17:30 GMT, everything as always LIVE on MultiBC + XciteTV.
Q1 | Q2 | Race
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