Chris takes Div A championship in record breaking pace
The opening round of the season took place at Kyoto National rev. After qualifying it seemed like winning the race would be an easy feat for Raptor | Chris, but the race proved different. For the first half of the race, SVR M. Goëse moved up from his 4th starting place to second, but just as he was about to catch the slipstream of the reigning champion he had to enter the pit. Chris continued on his 0-stop strategy. Despite fuel issues in the final corner of the race he won the first round of the season just in front of his teammate Raptor | Intre and Alternate|KiLl3r. The second race at South City Long went similar to the first one except for that M.Goëse was not present to challenge Chris for even a part of the race. [SR] Pete was closest and after 1 hour and 10 minutes of keeping concentration up in the streets he had conceded 15 seconds to Chris, whose teammate Intre finished third.
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Round three brought the field to Westhill International rev. This was the chance for Chris to do what he did not manage last season – win 3 races in a row. And sure enough, at the end of the 15 minute qualifying session a familiar name took pole position. Less familiar were the names lining up beside and behind him on the grid, with spdoMaddee and Redline Blobo starting second and third. Both drivers made their first OWRL start this season and surely were eager to prove their worth. Maybe a bit too eager, as incidents in the race meant no new drivers where to be found in top seven finishers of the race. Best of the finishers once more was Chris, who was only half a second short of keeping second place more than half a minute behind. Winning every possible points in the first half of the season, Chris now knew that he could get the title as early as round 4 of 6. Bad news for the competition as this made him even more determined at the toughest track on the calendar, Fern Bay Black rev. Just like he did in the previous three rounds, he got pole, was leading at the end of lap 1 and never looked back. Chris won the race 1 minute and 55 seconds ahead of Raptor | Jaypee. Third placed [SR] Tanakan was a lap down. After four rounds Chris was crowned S2 Season 16 Div A champion. In fact, his domination was so strong that he had led every lap of competition in the season up to this point.
Apart from winning the driver championship, RAPTOR-GAMING also could no longer be topped in the team standings. This opened the chance for other drivers to go for a race win. In round 5 spdoGarfield looked like going for the top of the podium as his connection suddenly was dropped on lap 52 of 71. Tanakan would have been the strongest contender based on his podium finishes earlier this season but already had crashed out of the race. This made room for two long time participants in Division A and they made it as close as it has ever been, with [RTS] Schufoso beating pod.hama Krutch to the finish line by 0.07. These two drivers moved up to fourth and fifth in the championship standings behind Chris, Intre and Tanakan. After both championships were decided the attendance numbers for the Div A races dwindled, ultimately leading to the cancellation of the final round. This made the aforementioned standings the final standings of S2 Season 16 Div A.
Lynxy 08 Sep: 17:01
my good friend gcoronin from italy is looking for a seat for the next OWRL F1 race on 28th sep. please give either me or him a PM if you need a fast, fair and sensible driver. thanks :)
germanpio 01 Sep: 19:33
Well, then it's 2 hours past UTC ;)
Lynxy 01 Sep: 00:51
Pio - just so you know, i have noticed you say the F1 GMT times are 1 hour before it should be ;) starts at 18:30 GMT, not 17:30gmt
Krutch 30 Aug: 23:00
if you did over 80% of the race you will and luckily, you did.
SCP Igor*cisco 30 Aug: 21:26
My connection broke in lap 24 :( Do bad luck racers get some points?
FBM - Blackwood GP rev
OWRL F1 2010
