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The Legend becomes a Great! - F2 Abu Dhabi



Last round of the seventh season of SLR Formula 2 and both drivers title and Evo Class title are yet to be won! SLR Corey who unbelievably was serving a race ban has a twenty seven point lead on SLR Jam and SLR Charlie and SLR Marsh were tied on points for the Evo title. Who will come out on top in both?!


One Shot Quali: SLR Griffiths takes the first points of the round! Crucial in his mission to take fourth in the drivers standings. Crispy qualified second on his return with the championship chaser SLR Jam in third just ahead of SLR Southerner.


The Sprint! Evoke Replays is your reverse grid pole sitter. After turn three SLR Jam was already up into fourth! Lap later he would then find himself in third. Crucial for his title hopes. Lap four we saw a bit of chaos where three drivers would be involved in an incident coming out of the last corner promoting Jam up into first after being fortunate to escape unharmed. Lap later Griffiths and Evoke Replays would collide down the back straight to place Southerner and Para Quickz into the podium places. For the rest of the race the only movement was from Benster recovering from that incident on the last corner a few laps before. In doing so securing a brilliant third position. Jam takes the sprint win! Probably his most important in his SLR F2 career. SLR Southerner would take second place just over a second behind. SLR Marsh would take the Evo win after Charlie found himself caught up in a couple of incidents setting up a winner takes all in the Evo fight!


The Feature! For the last time this season we are away! After the first lap the outgoing SLR Darnell already found himself up into sixth! It was a case of so far so good for Jam in third place. The front five for the first part of the race showing great pace not separated by much at all. Crispy and Southerner on the softer set of tyres. The UNI Virtuosi driver would blink first and would slightly lose out as SLR Darnell retired to make it a double DNF round on his last round before a hiatus to bring out a safety car. On the restart we had SLR Bennett and SLR James at the front. A lap into the restart Bennett and Griffiths would collide almost taking out Jam in the process. The Campos driver lucky to escape again…..today must be his day! Top three for the remaining laps were Jam, Benster and Southerner. Benster would take the lead in the remaining laps with Jam not having to defend hard as he knew he was doing enough to secure the title! Come the end Benster is your race winner, Southerner finishes third but in between them we have our first ever Two time SLR Formula 2 Champion! SLR Jam has done it! Showing unreal form to come back from at one point almost eighty points behind SLR Corey in the Championship. Further down SLR Charlie takes ninth in the race which also secured him the Evo feature win crowning him the Evo Class season three Champion!


Another brilliant season over and done with! Many congratulations to all this seasons champions where history was made! Will we see more next season? Season eight isn’t too far away! Will we have a new champion? Will we see another two time champion? Or will we have our first triple time champion?


As you were MD X


Blogs Driver of the Round: Benster


QUALIFYING

1 BRT GRIFFITHS 1:32.805

2 CRISPY2001

3 SLR JAM40

4 SLR SOUTHERNER

5 SLR CHARLIE1

6 PARA QUICKZ

7 RACEROLLER22

8 SHUTMEDAL

9 OWENHOWELL36

10 EVOKE REPLAY

11 SLR DODGY

12 BENSTER2413

13 BAGGIEFAN 1995

14 SLR JAMES96

15 MERKZ47

16 SLR BENNETT

17 SLR DARNELL

18 SLR MASH

19 SLR EVVO

20 SLR OGWEEN77


SPRINT

1 SLR JAM40

2 SLR SOUTHERNER

3 BENSTER2413 1:35.932

4 PARA QUICKZ

5 SHUTMEDAL

6 SLR OGWEEN77

7 RACEROLLER22

8 SLR DODGY

9 MERKZ47

10 SLR BENNETT

11 SLR MASH

12 SLR CHARLIE1

13 OWENHOWELL36

14 SLR JAMES96

15 SLR EVVO

16 CRISPY2001

17 BAGGIEFAN 1995

18 BRT GRIFFITHS

19 EVOKE REPLAY DNF + 15 SECS

20 SLR DARNELL DNF


BRT Griffiths vs Evoke Replays Sprint - Lap 6

Verdict: 15 second 3 LP to Evoke Replays

First part Evoke leaves no room to the outside causing a collision 5 seconds + 1 LP.

Second part of the clip Evoke leaves no room to the inside and continues to squeeze BRT Griffiths causing a collision. 10 Second and 2 LP to Evoke replays.

WARNING to BRT Griffiths: Please make sure to always rejoin in a safe manner.


FEATURE

1 BENSTER2413 1:35.399

2 SLR JAM40

3 SLR SOUTHERNER

4 RACEROLLER22

5 PARA QUICKZ

6 SLR DODGY

7 OWENHOWELL36

8 SLR CHARLIE1

9 MERKZ47

10 SHUTMEDAL

11 SLR OGWEEN77 + 10 SECS

12 SLR EVVO

13 SLR MASH

14 BRT GRIFFITHS

15 CRISPY2001

16 SLR JAMES96

17 BAGGIEFAN 1995

18 SLR BENNETT + 10 SECS

19 EVOKE REPLAY + 10 SECS

20 SLR DARNELL DNF


SLR Ogween reset to track Feature - Lap 3

Verdict: 10 second and 3 LP


BRT Griffiths vs SLR Bennett3810 Feature - Lap 10

Verdict: 10 second and 2 LP to SLR Bennett


Drifts wide on exit causing contact and spins round BRT Griffiths. Also 5 second and 1 LP unsafe rejoin pen to BRT Griffiths.

Evoke Replays retire on track Feature - Lap 16

Verdict: 10 Second and 3 LP

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