Brazil

Mckeon

Brazil plays host to the next race in the championship, a fan and driver favourite for many, Sao Paulo offers plenty of opportunity for close racing, intense speed, and unpredictability

It also offered a close qualifying session as well, and it would be Midzy15 to claim pole once again, setting a 1:06.576, which would be a marginal 0.053 quicker than Mr Ogween in the Alfa Romeo, and 0.091 quicker than SLR Corey in the McLaren

The race start would also see Midzy15 getting a cleaner start than Mr Ogween as the Williams would look to build a gap early on, with SLR Griffiths looking to get past a slow starting SLR Corey, but it would be ZyDRAD who'd be the biggest gainer off the start and through the first lap, with +2

There wouldn't be a long wait for the top two to breakaway from the rest of the pack, with Midzy15 and Mr Ogween, with the McLaren of SLR Corey struggling early on, and heeding a train that stretches through the full field early on yellow flags would come out for JitoDV who had a spin in S2 on lap 3, and immediately after at Turn 1 the following lap for the Williams of Bezzas, who was off on the inside at T1 and losing places rapidly

Battling would be hitting a high early on with Corey quickly becoming the bottleneck in the battle for P3, with SLR Griffiths and ZyDRAD looking to gain, and it would be 3 wide both into T1 and again into T4, with the Aston Martin and Alpine both making their way past the McLaren. SLR Dylan and VRA Andres were also locked in battle immediately behind, and slight wheel contact through turn 6 meant the AlphaTauri would have to correct the car, but would eventually spin across the track in response

There would also be a train for P8 beginning to form, headed by Ghost Colt, and it wouldn't be long before SLR Cech and Division would be challenging the AlphaTauri for the lead of the train, as two trains began to form, a soft train, and a medium train. Division would sneak his Ferrari wing on the tight space on the inside of Ghost Colt through T6 and eventually through the early part of S2, with close racing, it could've easily been drivers tripping over each other

Lap 10 would see both Division and Cech make their way past and into P8 and P9 respectively, and into cleaner air to see if they could exercise any extra speed on the tyres. Up at the front, SLR Griffiths would lead the soft train, with ZyDRAD, Corey, and both the red bulls waiting in the wings.

Ghost colt would continue to drop through the order, with both V2 x Combat and PaRa Quick both making their way through on Lap 11

SLR Dylan would trigger the undercut from P6 by pitting on the end of Lap 12, in the hope that an earlier stop than originally predicted, could propel the Bull up the order. We would never know how powerful the undercut would be after SLR Dylan not only got caught in traffic, but also had a spin on the exit of Turn 10. SLR Corey would put the following lap, and whilst the McLaren was being serviced, there was a change of leadership, with Mr Ogween getting past Midzy15 and almost breaking the 1s barrier immediately, as both would go long on their soft stint. Raceroller22 would pit on the end of Lap 14 and come out behind the McLaren.

Mr Ogween would pit on lap 16 from the lead, prompting Midzy to go for the overcut. The impact of the undercut was evident, with the gap the two leaders shared would be halved, bringing the McLaren and Red Bull back into play for the race win

Midzy and ZyDRAD would be the last of the soft runners to pit, and it would look to be a detriment to the strategy, as the Williams would come out behind his championship rival, but also with fresher tyres

Midzy wouldn't waste any time in trying to get past the red bull, with the slipstream up the hill to start lap 19, would look to go round the outside, but would have to be careful not to ram into the back of the McLaren who was ahead, with a snap of oversteer, Midzy would have to settle back in behind Raceroller. Midzy would try the same move again, round the outside of Turn 1 to try get the inside of Turn 2, and they were side by side, with just enough room to move, the Williams would get round the Red Bull, buy with the Williams experiencing some oversteer, would lead to some wheel banging through the Senna esses, but would get through with the move.

Lap 21 would see some battles begin to hit their peaks with Midzy looking to try get through the traffic as quick as he could, but also with ZyDRAD and SLR Griffiths both getting themselves involved, it would become a big battle

ZyDRAD would go side by side with SLR Corey up the hill into Turn 1, looking to get the move done, you couldn't put a sheet of paper between the two as the rose over the crest, showing how close they were fighting. The following lap saw SLR Griffiths make the same move on SLR Corey, and Raceroller also getting past the McLaren as well

Mr Ogween enjoyed a 2.7s lead on lap 25 over Midzy and ZyDRAD who were battling for P2

The driver to watch in this period was the McLaren of PaRa Quicks, who had stopped for softs and was in some clean air to fully utilise the potential of the red wall tyre, running P7 and closing in on his teammate who was only 2s up the road

Midzy and ZyDRAD would swap positions over the following laps for P2 as they weren't truly troubling the lead of Mr Ogween in the Alfa Romeo

Para quick would sit in behind the slipstream of Raceroller, who was in the slipstream of SLR Corey, up the hill and onto T1, para would look to go round the outside of both drivers and have the inside for turn 2, making a beautiful double move stick, and able to charge forward with some life in the soft tyres, with his teammate beginning to drop in overall tyre performance, losing out to Para, Raceroller, and Ghost Colt in the space of a lap and a half. The soft runners would well and truly have arrived as those on the alternate strat would begin to surface in the final laps of the race, and it would bring an interesting conclusion to the race

ZyDRAD and Midzy would begin closing in on Ogweens lead, and eventually breach the 1s DRS detection gap by lap 34, and the gap would be half a second halfway through the lap

It would be the final lap before ZyDRAD primed himself for a striking opportunity on Mr Ogween, and with a clean run off the exit of the Senna esses on lap 36 of 36, the Aston Martin would open DRS and get the move done round the outside of the Alfa Romeo.

With ZyDRAD making the move and taking the chequered flag first, it would be Mr Ogween claiming first place in the provisional results, his first in SLR. SLR Griffiths would secure P2 for Alpine and ZyDRAD, who made the move for the lead on track and taking the flag first, would still be on the podium, albeit, in 3rd place

Qualifying

Pole Lap: 01.06.576

1. Midzy15

2. Mr Ogween 77

3. SLR Corey

4. SLR Griffiths

5. SLR Dylan

6. bezzas1

7. ZyDRAD

8. JoelGP88

9. VRA Andres

10. raceroller22

11. II Division II

12. SLR Cech

13. gho3t COLT

14. V2 x Combat

15. PaRa Quickz

16. II Monkeyy II

17. R1ggs8

18. Jito DV

19. Arb0n EPA

20. SLR cuzZXK

Race

Fastest Lap: 01.07.675 bezzas1

1. Mr Ogween 77

2. SLR Griffiths

3. ZyDRAD

4. II Division II

5.  PaRa Quickz

6. V2 x Combat

7. raceroller22

8. Midzy15 

9. gho3t COLT

10. R1ggs8

11. II Monkeyy II

12. SLR Corey

13. VR Andres +13 sec

14. bezzas1

15. JoelGP88

16. Arb0n EPA (DNF)

17. SLR Cech (DNF)

18. SLR cuzZXK (DNF)

19. SLR Dylan (DNF)

20. Jito DV (DNF)

SLR Cuszuk reset to track

Outcome: quali ban due to DNF

Reason: reset to track

Andres reset to track

Outcome: 10s +3LP to Andres

Reason: Reset to track caught on stream

Andres vs Dylan

Outcome: NFA

Reason: Dylan’s POV shows him barely moving over to the left towards Andres, if at all. Just very unfortunate minor contact between the two

Corey vs Midzy

Verdict: NFA

Reason: both drivers try to leave each other room through the senna esses, unfortunately corey ends up going wide. He also keeps the position.

Arbon vs Andres

Outcome: 3s+1LP to Andres

Reason: moves twice when defending against Arbon, preventing him from being able to make the move.

Roller vs Midzy

Outcome: Racing incident

Reason: this was incredibly difficult to decide, as midzy turns left for a little too long which partly results in the collision between the two. However at the same time roller is beginning to turn right towards the apex and at the point of contact they are both moving towards each other. Furthermore, midzy does straighten his wheel up and attempt to turn right a bit but does this slightly too late. Therefore, we cannot fully pin things on one party and have elected to call this as a racing incident.

Division 1

We kicked the weekend off in Brazil and it was last weeks pole sitter SLR Semm who made it back to back poles, we had a new face on the grid this week, simbarocksONE qualified p2 and SLR Connor in p3. Championship leader SLR Bennett qualified p6.

It was raining, 5 lights went out and semm would have a good start maintaining his lead whilst Connor would have a poor start eventually dropping to p7, not what he wanted especially after looking to be one of the favourites leading up to the race. Championship leader bennett climbed a couple of places at the start up to p4

Massive drama just as we enter lap 2, race leader semm lost it coming onto the home straight, spun his car which resulted in him dropping to the back. Connor also pitted early dropping him to 17th.

With not a lot of action happening due to it being difficult to overtake in the wet we fast forward to lap 16 and semms race went from bad to worse as he was now fully out the race after crashing bringing out the safety car this meant resulted in liam, Connor and elite taking the risk changing onto dry tires as the rain was just beginning to stop, Liam and elite immediately spun.

As the safety car came in the intermediates were slightly quicker but a lap later and everyone else on inters came in for drys, this meant simba was leading on debut followed by vapidcoot and badotterTV in p3 but not long after valid would spin demoting him to p13 and promoting predz to p3 where he and VR46 would fight for that final step on the podium for the rest of the race.

The checkered flag waved and it was SimbarocksONE who took his first victory at his first ever race! Vapidcoot took p2 and predz held on to p3 to claim that last step on the podium! LP Smoke after starting p18 had a fantastic race finishing p5 and after bennett finished p8 smoke has now retaken the championship lead!

Join us next week as we head down under, Australia!

Brazil

Qualifying

Pole Time: 1:06.847

1. SLR Semm

2. SimbarocksONE

3. SLR Connor

4. VapidCoot74

5. BadOtterTV

6. SLR Bennett3810

7. legendarydannyd

8. SLR Liamm

9. SLR Allen

10. SotierClock110

11. DPT Paul

12. l VR46 l

13. SF1 Moley

14. ARL PReDaToRZz

15. Adrian VIII

16. EIIis 37

17. AMS Ben

18. LP Smoke

19. DPT Alfie

20. ELiTE x RisKz

Race

Fastest Lap: 1:07.611 - ELiTE x RisKz

1. SimbarocksONE

2. VapidCoot74

3. ARL PReDaToRZz

4. l VR46 l

5. LP Smoke

6. DPT Alfie

7. legendarydannyd

8. SLR Bennett3810

9. SotierClock110

10. SLR Connor

11. EIIis 37

12. SF1 Moley

13. SLR Liamm

14. BadOtterTV

15. Adrian VIII

16. ELiTE x RisKz (FL)

17. AMS Ben (DSC)

18. SLR Semm (DNF)

19. SLR Allen (RET)

20. DPT Paul (RET)

ELiTE x RisKz Vs LP Smoke - brake check (lap 1)

Outcome: Racing incident

Reason: It's the first lap of a wet race and conditions are difficult with braking points being different in the wet. The stewards think Smoke brakes on time and Elite unfortunately just runs into the back of him.

DPT Paul - Retiring on track (lap 1)

Outcome: Qualifying ban

BadOtterTV Vs ARL PReDaToRZz #23 - collision (Lap 25)

Outcome: Racing incident

Reason: Going into turn 4, Predz and otter make contact resulting in Otter being spun around. The stewards concluded that Predz did leave sufficient space on this inside and that Otter starts to turn for the apex too late and just under steers into the side of Predz.

DPT Paul Vs SLR Allen - Collision (lap 1)

Outcome: 1LP to Allen

Reason: Although there was nothing intentional, Allen clips the right rear tyre of Paul coming onto the main straight and sends Paul off the track and into the wall. A licence point has been given due to Allen retiring from the race.

SF1 Moley Vs BadOtterTV - Crashing into another driver - lap 36

Outcome: Racing incident

Reason: Otter simply loses his car on his own and has a massive spin causing him to lose complete control of his car, come across the grass and collide with Moley. It is incredibly unfortunate for Moley but any penalty in this situation would be harsh as there was nothing intentional and Otter just loses control of his car.

Division 2

In division 2 this week a welcome sight of a full grid saw a super close qualifying at Brazil where it really started to heat up in Q2 and the fight to get in the top 10 had 10 drivers covered by just 3 tenths.

In Q3 it was nail biting stuff with the track now at optimum. J Lee Menz looked to have secured pole but SLR Dosser with the chequered flag out picked up a tow from his teammate and secured pole by just under a tenth of a second.

To the race then. Pole man Dosser got a great start and some great wheel to wheel battling in behind. Hicklin was the first to retire and as that happened Dosser spun and dropped to 7th so it was Menz now leading the way.

Zachisbeast despite qualifying outside the top 10 was up to P4 after 5 laps. Matthew made a great move on hyperz on the same lap.

On lap 9 &10 we lost hyperz and dimplyhornet862 and that brought out a safety car and bought the pack together. When we got going we managed a lap before another safety car was needed. We got back underway again on lap 18 but you guessed safety car was back out on the same lap.

Lap 21 saw a brilliant double overtake by GRT Andrew at the senna S. Back racing again and there was lots of action throughout the remaining drivers. Lots of wheel to wheel battles. With now under 10 laps remaining. GRT Andrew and SLR Barlow had a ding dong battle.

Lap 30 saw a battle for the lead between SLR Quattro and Zachisbeast with a bit of wheel banging. But Quattro got the move done however he did have a penalty so Zach knew he just had to stay within that for victory.

Last 3 laps of the race and GoldenEggFryer had a big crash and suddenly we only had 10 runners left.

Champion of the division Zachisbeast would take 2nd after SLR Quattro had a time penalty removed so he get the win. SLR ALE P3, SLR Charlie P4, GRT Andrew P5, SLR Barlow P6, J Lee Menz P7, SLR Jack P8, SLR dosser P9 & finally Southraptor picking the last point scoring place.

Qualifying

Pole Lap: 01.07.119

1. SLR Dosser

2. J Lee Menz

3. SLR Quattro

4. Simon37M

5. SLR CHARLIE1

6. GRT Andrew

7. SLR Barlow

8. SLR ALE

9. SLR Hyperz

10. ZachIsBeast25

11. GoldenEggFryer

12. SLR Leah

13. QBR20 Jay20

14. Matthew7153

15. AdaaamLeee x

16. SouthRaptor966

17. SLR Hicklin

18. SLR Jack

19. NNT BOULANGE

20. DimplyHornet862

Race

Fastest Lap: 01.08.933 Simon37M

1. SLR Quattro -5 sec

2. ZachIsBeast25

3. SLR ALE

4. SLR CHARLIE1

5. GRT Andrew

6. SLR Barlow

7. J Lee Menz

8. SLR Jack

9. SLR Dosser

10. SouthRaptor966 +10 sec

11. GoldenEggFryer

12. AdaaamLeee x (DNF)

13. QBR20 Jay20 (DNF)

14. Simon37M (DNF)

15. SLR Leah (DNF)

16. Matthew7153 (DNF)

17. DimplyHornet862 (DNF)

18. SLR Hyperz (DNF)

19. NNT BOULANGE (DNF)

20. SLR Hicklin (DNF)

Incident - Leah vs Matthew

Outcome - NFA

Reason - Matthew spins off but the game resets his car to track automatically which is why he was parked on the racing line, was just unfortunate for Leah.

Incident - Hyperz Crashing on purpose

Outcome - Race ban and 5LP to Hyperz

Reason - Hyperz clearly crashes himself out on purpose, this is the second time he has done it this season so we’re giving a more severe penalty than before.

Incident - Barlow vs Southraptor

Outcome - 10 Seconds and 2LP to southraptor

Reason - Southraptor purposely goes slow at the safety car restart to give a gap to his teammate in front.

Incident - Quattro vs 5 second time penalty.

Outcome - 5 Seconds removed from Quattro’s race time.

Reason - Quattro gets hit from behind through no fault of his own. He gives proof of not serving his penalty in a pit stop so we can remove it.

Incident - Simon reset to track

Outcome - 15 Seconds and 3LP to Simon

Reason - Simon spins and resets to track from a please where the game doesn’t reset you automatically.

Division 3

Welcome back to Division 3 round 20 Brazilian GP.

As we go into qualifying in brazil was quite eventful in division 3, in Q1 the slippery conditions caused issues with SLR Russell, as the track dried a quick exit of the pits found XoSwiftyxO hitting the pit wall. As the track temperatures raised through qualifying, Q3 had 7 of the top 10 breaking into the 1:07s with championship rivals LSW L3G3ND44 managing pole and Gregers UK sitting close behind in P2 on the grid.

The Race started with as much if not more rain than qualifying, Drivers starting on intermediate tyres, anxious about the track conditions Cxmzn and SLR russel on cold tyres due to coming together on the warm up lap.

Lights OUT!

The grid sprung into action as fast as they dare to keep traction. BcfcJosh made an amazing starting move from 4th upto 1st, L3g3nd forced to 2nd, Marsh moving upt 4th from 6th and Gregers UK losing 4 positions down to 6th, all before the end of Turn 2. lap 1 doesnt end there with SLR Marsh dropping from P4 to P15 int the pits after becoming the first victim of turn 9 this race. XoSwiftyxO making 6 positions being the biggest gainer of the first lap.

Top 3 josh legend and Block begin make a gap to 4th, Block seeming the faster of the 3 stuck behind legend. warhead in 4th had his hands full fending of Gregers in 5th who had the greater pace, meanwhile down the pack Turn 9 claimed another 2 victims with Cxmzn in lap 2 and Beethoven lap 3.

eventually Gregers made it past the aston martin in lap 7 with nearly 7 seconds gap to the dominant drive of top 3, Josh legend and Block.

Lap 8 and victim number 4 for turn 9 was championship leader legend who narrowly avoided damage,dropping him from 2nd to 8th. Bringing his rival Gregers up to 3rd.

Lap 10 Block swaps to softs as the track had slowly been drying since lap 8, this move ends up costing him 2nd place. Lap 11 Russel gets claimed by the ominous turn 9, its spin count rising to 5. Lap 17 most of the Grid swapped to mediums from inters and legend made his way nack to 5th place on his way in the top 3 at this point are the Dominant first place drive from josh in 1st, Gregers in 2nd, pulling away from Warhead in 3rd.

SmitHPDanX01 gains 3rd on lap 18 from warhead, who eventually finds his pace and catches back up 10 laps later.

SmitHPDanX01 and warhead Battle at from 27 through lap 31 for 3rd place, the fight coming to an end when SmitHPDanX01 had a slow turn 11 allowing warhead into 3rd and warheads shadow, SLR Marsh (lapped p12) attempted to unlap himself coming between the two in turn 12 giving warhead the chance to pull away.

As the race comes to a close, Legend forces his way up the grid from 7th in the last 5 laps gaining 4th place on penalties from SmitHPDanX01, lessening Gregers UKs gain in points.

and Block does the unthinkable of a 24 lap soft tyre run.

Top 3 over the line 1st place Josh with a dominant drive not losing first from gaining it at the start, Gregers UK 2nd and F1 Warhead making his Debut Podium.

Join division 3 next time as they will be tackling the streets of Australia. Hope to see you guys there.

Qualifying

Pole Lap: 01.07.355

1. LSW L3G3ND44

2. Gregrs UK

3. SLR Block

4. BcfcJosh1232752

5. F1 Warhead

6. SLR Marsh

7. Vision2614

8. Beethoven974

9. SmitHPDanX01

10. xxxx Rosco xxxx

11. I21I Maxwell

12. SLR Rosery

13. I Cxmzn I

14. SLR Russell

15. XoSwiftyxO

Race

Fastest Lap: 01.08.757 SLR Marsh

1. BcfcJosh1232752

2. Gregers UK

3. F1 Warhead

4. LSW L3G3ND44

5. SmitHPDanX01

6. I21I Maxwell

7. SLR Block

8. Beethoven974

9. xxxx Rosco xxxx

10. Vision2614

11. SLR Rosery

12. SLR Marsh

13. XoSwiftyxD

14. ICxmznI (DNF)

15. SLR Russell (DNF)