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OLFSL - Race 2

By 3id News | Jun 01, 2009 12:13 UTC | 267 Views

First of, we have a change in results for last race. After reviewing rules admins decided to give penalty to Dave for not making compulsory pit stop. There is a lot of controversy there, because they forgot to set a maiden pitstop on race server, you can read more about that on olfsl's website. So Karolis is declared as a winner, but was awarded with same points as Dave. Both got points as if they would've finished 2nd.

Now, we stayed on Aston for another round, this time on short Club layout with little MRT. A whole lot of bumps made sure to make life much harder for drivers.
We have two new drivers joining the league from this round, who showed to be big competition to our guys. One of them is a 21 year old Estonian Rudi 'RudiTurbo' Reinkort of SK Gaming and other one is 22 year Englishman old Mark 'BreadC' Bunby from Sonicrealms Racing.

BreadC showed the best pace in practice and took pole position. Second on the grid was our Hugo Luis and third was Niki. RudiTurbo managed to qualify on fourth. Karolis qualified 6th and Dave 10th. Ally made it to the pool 2 this time, starting 21st there.
Gaps were minimal, 24 drivers in pool 1 were all in just half a second.

On race start Karolis made a mistake into the turn 1 and caused a pile up. Dave, with great amount of luck, used this and got up to 5th after just one corner, having a good chance to fight for podium spots. Karolis on other hand was unlucky in all that and got a broken dumper, had to fix it and lost a lap while doing that.

Hugo pushed Bread very hard for first few laps, but Bread stayed calm and held the lead. Hugo lost his cool on lap 4 in last corner and went off the track for just few seconds, but enough to loose 3 positions. This promoted Niki into 2nd, but just 2 laps later he made two mistakes and lost position to Rudi and Dave. You can check this in his highlights video.

Race settled down for a pretty long period but then Rudi makes a mistake in chicane and loses position to Dave and Niki. Later he made another mistake and has lost another position.

Dave held a steady pace with 5 seconds gap to Bread. It all looked like Bread will crown his great pace with victory, but two laps to the end he makes mistake out of the last corner and Dave was just close enough to profit from it.

So Dave took a victory, again without pitstop, but this time it wasn't required.
Niki stayed connected for the rest of the race and took his first podium of the season finishing 3rd.
Hugo had a bad day and made four more mistakes after one on race start and finished all the way down on 13th.
Karolis, however didn't make any more mistakes, but could do nothing with being lap down and finished 16th.
Ally had a crash and had to retire.

We're moving to South City for the next round and changing to very popular XFG car. See ya there.