A week ago SLR F2 Season six commenced and a week later we are already back again at Saudi Arabia! Only feels like yesterday we raced here last season. Lets get straight to it!
One Shot Quali. Despite seemingly looking nowhere in time trial the reigning champion Crispy2001 would claim his first F2 pole of the season just pipping SLR Corey by a tenth and a half. SLR Darnell settled for third three tenths off pole and a further three tenths back sharing the shame row was SLR Jam. MasonGammon in tenth was your best Evo Qualifier.
The Sprint! MasonGammon was your reverse grid pole sitter with SLR Bennett and Division in second and third. In the opening lap MasonGammon maintained his lead. Further back a collision between UKBeast and SLR Griffiths sent the Campos driver into a spin and further back from that more collisions followed with multiple drivers. Three laps in the lead changes at the front. Division takes the lead at the expense of MasonGammon who would begin to fall back and spin moments later dropping even further back. The top four would begin to pull away due to the ongoing duel for fifth between SLR Jam and SLR Semm. Couple laps later SLR Corey unleashes his immense pace. Takes second off SLR Southerner and two laps later takes the lead from Division. Battles for fifth and ninth would spice up to entertain our viewers. Towards the end we saw bits of drama with collisions between OwenHowell, Merkz and SLR Darnell and SLR Allen. Allen cruelly being denied his first ever SLR F2 points. SLR Corey provisionally wins again! Crispy moves up to second as a penalty drops Division to third. Southerner misses out on a podium in fourth but half a dozen seconds back SLR Jam wins the battle for fifth beating UKBeast, SLR Griffiths and SLR Darnell who all took the rest of the points. SLR Charlie was your Evo Sprint winner in tenth.
The Feature! We sure more collisions once again in the opening lap. OwenHowell and Baggiefan gaining massively from it. Lap later it was a nightmare for UNI Virtuosi as contact between SLR Southerner and OwenHowell sent both drivers into the wall. Three laps in the front three have already pulled away. Crispy, Corey and Darnell seemingly in a league of their own. Corey would later take the lead from Crispy before the pit stops. By lap nine everyone but SLR Griffiths have pit as the reverse driver opted to pit on the last lap to try and disrupt the battle at the front to cost SLR Corey points for his championship challenge. For the last few laps it was a tight duel between the front four. After losing out with an undercut Crispy was able to catch back up to eventually come out and take the lead after contact between all Griffiths, Corey and Darnell. The latter getting damage ruining his chance for a first win since France last season. Crispy gets the win and his first of the season! His title defence well and truly has begun! SLR Corey takes second with SLR Darnell nursing a frustrating third. SLR Jam won the battle for fourth from UKBeast who suffered with penalties. SLR Dodgy had a great race to take sixth with Division in seventh. SLR Southerner pipped SLR Bennett to eighth and the last points scoring position went to Evo Feature winner SLR Charlie who rounded off a great round for the Carlin driver.
After two rounds it appears we may already know who are contenders for the title will be. SLR Corey and the defending champion Crispy. Still thirteen rounds to go so who knows someone else might join the party late on. Next week we head down under for the first time in F2 to Australia. We will see you then.
Blogs Driver of the Round: Crispy2001
QUALIFYING
1 CRISPY2001 1:38.482
2 SLR COREY
3 SLR DARNELL
4 SLR JAM40
5 BRT GRIFFITHS
6 UKBEASTASSASSIN
7 SLR SOUTHERNER
8 ll DIVISION ll
9 SLR BENNETT
10 MASONGAMMON05
11 MERKZ47
12 SLR ALLEN
13 SLR DODGY
14 SLR CHARLIE1
15 BAGGIEFAN 1995
16 SLR RUSSELL
17 ADS040
18 SEMMF1
19 OWENHOWELL36
20 SLR MASH
SPRINT
1 CRISPY2001
2 ll DIVISION ll
3 SLR SOUTHERNER
4 SLR COREY 1:40.740 +15 sec
5 SLR JAM40
6 UKBEASTASSASSIN
7 SLR DARNELL
8 SLR DODGY
9 BRT GRIFFITHS + 10 SECS
10 SLR CHARLIE1
11 MERKZ47
12 SEMMF1
13 OWENHOWELL36
14 BAGGIEFAN 1995 + 15 SECS
15 SLR ALLEN + 15 SECS
16 SLR MASH
17 MASONGAMMON05
18 ADS040 + 10 SECS
19 SLR RUSSELL DNF
20 SLR BENNETT DNF
Ads040 - Readying up early Verdict: Qualifying Ban and 3 LP
Ads040 - Reseting to track Sprint - Lap 7
Verdict: 10 Second and 3 LP
SLRCHARLIE1 v SLR Mash Sprint - Lap 1
Verdict: Racing Incident
SLRCHARLIE1 has already committed to turning in when an incident is happening to his inside SLR Mash does well to avoid it. Lap 1 Incident.
UKBeastAssassin v SLR Griffiths Sprint - Lap 1
Verdict: 10 second + 2 LP to SLR Griffiths
SLR Griffiths carries to much speed and spins UKBeastAssassin.
MasonGammon05 v SLR Allen Sprint - Lap 4
Verdict: 10 second 2 LP to SLR Allen
SLR Allen carries far to much speed into the final corner hitting into MasonGammon sending his car into a spin.
SLR Darnell v BaggieFan 1995 Sprint - Lap 2
Verdict: 15 Second 3 LP to BaggieFan 1995
On the exit of the final corner BaggieFan 1995 just seems to open out his steering with a car on his outside causing SLR Darnell wing damage.
SLR Darnell Crispy2001 SLR Corey Incident Sprint - Lap 2
Verdict: NFA
SLR Darnell has a massive lose of speed on exit from the way he approached the corner before which means he unfortunately gets spun towards the wall.
SLRCHARLIE1 v SLR Russell Sprint - Lap 1
Verdict: 10 SECS and 2 LP to SLR Russell (QUALI BAN due to DNF)
SLR Russell gets caught up in an incident in front then tries to come back to the racing line causing wing damage to SLRCHARLIE1.
SLR Dodgy v SLR Allen Sprint - Lap 1
Verdict: 5 second and 2 LP to SLR Allen
SLR Allen reacts late to what’s going on in front causing SLR Dodgy to go into a half spin losing multiple positions.
SLR Dodgy v SLR Mash Sprint - Lap 1
Verdict: Racing incident
This is a continuation from the SLRCHARLIE1 and SLR Russell incident. Yellow flags don’t seem to come out for the incident giving SLR Mash hardly no time to react unfortunately hitting SLR Dodgy.
FEATURE
1 CRISPY2001
2 SLR COREY 1:40.282
3 SLR DARNELL
4 SLR JAM40
5 UKBEASTASSASSIN
6 SLR DODGY
7 ll DIVISION ll
8 SLR SOUTHERNER
9 SLR BENNETT
10 SLR CHARLIE1
11 BRT GRIFFITHS + 5 SECS
12 SLR ALLEN
13 MASONGAMMON05
14 MERKZ47
15 SLR MASH
16 BAGGIEFAN 1995
17 OWENHOWELL36 DNF
18 SEMMF1 DNF
19 ADS040 DNF
20 SLR RUSSELL DNF
SLR Southerner v OwenHowell36 Feature - Lap 2
Verdict: 10 second and 2 LP (QUALI BAN due to DNF)
Carried far to much speed also cutting a corner in the build up to hitting the rear of SLR Southerner.
SLR Southerner v SLR Griffiths Feature - Lap 7
Verdict: 5 second and 2 LP to SLR Griffiths
SLR Griffiths breaks later hitting into SLR Southerner.
Warnings: 6 point official WARNING to Ads040
9 points reached adds a further QUALIFYING BAN to Ads040
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