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OLFSL - Race 5

By 3id News | Sep 06, 2009 07:12 UTC | 602 Views

Before we write anything, we want to express our condolences to Ant. He lost his 27 year old daughter Tiffany. As last respect to her and support to Ant, we ren this race with special skins.

We've all been to summer brake and are back in action now. Race 6 of the season, which should take place today, got delayed because of techinal problems with the server. Admins also failed to find time to post official final results for Race 5, so untill then we got to work with what we have. As I said, we've all been to summer brake, so it's understandable.

However, lets get back to race 5 report.
Race 5 was held on Westhill's International layout month and a half ago. Drivers got XRT to drive this time and it proved as a great combination. It gave drivers a lot of trouble with tires, but that is understandable for Westhill.

Our drivers outqualified everyone, leaving 4th to RudiTurbo, who never showed up for the race, so 4th to 6th was reserved for prodrive drivers.
Throughout the race Karolis and Niki had some amazing fights. Hugo had pole and ren away, while Niki from 3rd was trying to pass Karolis. He attacked hard from the beginning, but failed to find right move to pass Karolis. Then he ren in problems with tires and Karolis made 3 sec gap, but once tires got better he was immediately on back of Karolis' tail and ready to pass him. He made the pass in lap 17, when he cought Karolis unready to put a defensive move. Karolis then attacked hard for three laps, while Niki was slowly runing hisr ear tires from all the defensive moves, and it looked like Karolis will make the pass, but instead in lap 20 Niki held outside line thru the longest corner on tracks, making almost impossible. Karolis made a small mistake there and lost place to Dominic, prodrives driver who closed up, because our drivers were fighting hard.
But in lap 23 Niki makes unexpected mistake and Karolis makes too aggressive pass and pushes him off. Niki passed Dominic in last corner of the race to get back to 3rd. Admins are still to decide on legality of Karolis' move in lap 23, which could promote Niki back to 2nd.
You can check all of the action from Niki's movies which are presented in bottom of these news.

We're moving to Kyoto in Japan for next three races of this season, starting with maybe the toughest task for drivers of this year. Kyoto GP Long rev with FZR and XRR cars. Till then take care.

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Highlights by Niki:

Qualfy results - Race results - Drivers standings - Team standings - Qualifying setup - Race setup