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[Aerond]

F1RWRS 2013 - Round 13/16 - MACAU GP - Macau Street Circuit

PRE-QUALIFYING

--Drivers in bold (from top 3 combined times), go into main qualifying

1. Ben Fleet (Foxdale) -- 1.56.006
2. Douglas Mann (Foxdale) -- 1.57.493 (+1.487)
3. Shinobu Katayama (Sunshine) -- 1.58.100 (+2.094)
4. Hagane Shizuka (FAT) -- 1.59.217 (+3.211)
5. Dave McFaste (FAT) -- 1.59.268 (+3.262)
6. Saeed Al Faisal (Sunshine) -- 1.59.714 (+3.708)
7. Giovanni Roda (Trueba) -- 1.59.786 (+3.780)
8. Nathan Scott (Calinetic) -- 2.00.110 (+4.140)
9. Phoenix McAllister (Phoenix) -- 2.00.665 (+4.659)
10. Ron Mignolet (Phoenix) -- 2.00.757 (+4.751)
11. David Koczo (Calinetic) -- 2.01.155 (+5.149)
12. James Davies (Trueba) -- 2.01.236 (+5.230)
13. Richie White (SOTL) -- 2.01.970 (+5.964)
14. Damon Cannon (SOTL) -- 2.01.992 (+5.986)
15. Todd Cockburn (Virgin Intercorse) -- 2.03.456 (+7.450)
16. Vida Reyna-Sanchez (Horizon) -- 2.05.015 (+9.009)
17. Phil McCraken (Virgin Intercorse) -- 2.05.610 (+9.604)
18. Dean O´Lauchlan (Horizon) -- 2.05.903 (+9.897)
19. Darren Older Jr (CR) -- 2.10.127 (+14.121)
20. Fredo Mestolio (CR) -- 2.10.815 (+14.809)

QUALIFYING

1. Mark Dagnall (Dagnall) -- 1.56.890
2. Chris Dagnall (Dagnall) -- 1.57.051 (+0.161)
3. Ben Fleet (Foxdale) -- 1.57.127 (+0.238)
4. Dave McFaste (FAT) -- 1.57.488 (+0.598)
5. Douglas Mann (Foxdale) -- 1.57.647 (+0.757)
6. Frank Zimmer (GRM) -- 1.57.897 (+1.007)
7. Shinobu Katayama (Sunshine) -- 1.58.093 (+1.203)
8. Rhys Davies (GRM) -- 1.58.302 (+1.412)
9. Colin Pratchett (ARC) -- 1.58.342 (+1.452)
10. Ashley Watkinson (HRT) -- 1.58.371 (+1.481)
11. Daniel Melrose (Arrowtech) -- 1.58.691 (+1.801)
12. Saeed Al Faisal (Sunshine) -- 1.58.695 (+1.805)
13. Thomas de Bock (Gillet) -- 1.59.060 (+2.170)
14. Hagane Shizuka (FAT) -- 1.59.105 (+2.215)
15. Daniel Martins (Arrowtech) -- 1.59.388 (+2.498)
16. Kay Lon (Jones) -- 1.59.393 (+2.503)
17. Sammy Jones (Jones) -- 1.59.509 (+2.619)
18. Aurelian Moll (Gillet) -- 1.59.541 (+2.651)
19. Nicolas Steele (Kamaha) -- 1.59.783 (+2.893)
20. Gary Cameron (Prospec) -- 2.00.105 (+3.215)
21. Resi Respati (Flying Fish) -- 2.00.155 (+3.265)
22. Yu Hiang Hao (Flying Fish) -- 2.00.233 (+3.343)
23. Barii Mori (Kamaha) -- 2.00.265 (+3.375)
24. John Zimmer (HRT) -- 2.00.392 (+3.502)
25. Jesus Plaza (ARC) -- 2.00.517 (+3.627)
26. Nathanael Spencer (MRT) -- 2.00.678 (+3.788)
DNQ. Dave Simpson (Prospec) -- 2.00.948 (+4.058)
DNQ. Phillippe Nicolas (MRT) -- 2.02.085 (+5.195)

Race

Fleet passes both Dagnalls before the first corner thanks to the higher speed of the Foxdale. Shizuka does a great start and climbs to 10th. At the hairpin, Martins eats the back of Melrose´s car and the former F1 champion has to pit to fix the rear wing. Mark Dagnall recovers the lead at the last corner.

Some pics of the start...





Fleet loses the 2nd place to Chris Dagnall on lap 2 and both Dagnalls start to open a serious gap. Pratchett passes Frank Zimmer. Two laps later, the first retirement comes from Moll after he spins and crashes. Douglas Mann suffers an electric problem but he´s able to reach the pits to fix it, but he´s 23rd back on track. Shizuka also spins out of the race.




On lap 5 Pratchett keeps on climbing and passes Rhys Davies for 6th. Three laps later, Al Faisal´s Sunshine suffers an electrical problem as well and pits too.
Lap 10 situation:



Three laps later, Chris Dagnall spins out too, Walkinson and McFaste are the next drivers to retire, John Zimmer following soon with yet another accident.



Most of the drivers are for 3 stops and Fleet and Mark Dagnall open the first stop window on lap 17. Both GRM´s stop on lap 21 and 22, but they´re for 2 stops instead.

Lap 20 situation:



On lap 26, Katayama passes Fleet for 2nd, Martins retires shortly afterwards. On lap 30, Mann passes Jones for 7th, after a beautiful string of overtakes.

Lap 30:



The 2nd round of stops start on lap 36; the race stays relatively quiet until Katayama suffers an accident on lap 47. Mori also crashes one lap later, but this time due a suspension failure. Davies and John Zimmer stop for the 2nd time around lap 50, and they get to take their positions back from Pratchett when he stops on lap 54. Lap 56 situation:



After that, the 3rd round of stops happens; Fleet loses the 2nd position to both GRM´s and Pratchett and falls to 5th, but he starts an impressive string of laps and in just three laps gets the 2nd place back; now Mann is around 20 seconds behind this group. Frank Zimmer retires on lap 67, and Ben Fleet retires two laps later and only 9 from the end. Meanwhile, Mann is fastly approaching Pratchett, and this fight will become the fight for the win as Mark Dagnall´s car fails on lap 73, when he had more than 1min and 45 seconds to Rhys Davies, who happily receives the lead. That very same lap, Mann manages to pass Pratchett and starts pursuing Davies, who´s around 4 seconds ahead. Mann manages to cut the gap to 2.1 seconds and when Rhys Davies is about to begin the last lap he suddenly gets the way of the pitlane... as he needs fuel for an extra lap! GRM failed to calculate the correct ammount and Mann manages to keep the Foxdale running for the first finish of the season with a fantastic win from second last after his electrical problem! Rhys Davies finally finishes 3rd and there´s even more heartbreak behind as Sammy Jones car stops at the last corner, losing his 4th place. Melrose also runs out of fuel but manages to cross the line just ahead of Kay Lon!!

On top of it, Mark Dagnall is the winner of the F1RWRS 2013 season!!




FASTEST LAP: Mark Dagnall (Dagnall) -- 1.59.998
ROTR: Gillet -- Awful qualifying and rejectful accidents put both of their drivers out.

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CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS - Round 13/16

Drivers

1. Mark Dagnall -- 64 pts
2. Rhys Davies -- 31 pts
3. Aurelian Moll -- 28 pts
4. Thomas de Bock -- 23 pts
=. Sammy Jones -- 22 pts
6. Kay Lon -- 20 pts
7. Daniel Melrose -- 18 pts
8. Ashley Watkinson -- 16 pts
=. Chris Dagnall -- 16 pts
10. Frank Zimmer -- 14 pts
11. Dave Simpson -- 10 pts
=. Douglas Mann -- 10 pts
13. Jesus Plaza -- 9 pts
=. Daniel Martins -- 9 pts
15. Shinobu Katayama -- 8 pts
16. Colin Pratchett -- 7 pts
17. Barii Mori -- 6 pts
18. John Zimmer -- 5 pts
19. Resi Respati -- 4 pts
20. Nathan Scott -- 3 pts
=. Saeed Al Faisal -- 3 pts
22. Nathanael Spencer -- 2 pts
=. Phoenix McAllister -- 2 pts
=. Phillippe Nicolas -- 2 pts
=. Gary Cameron -- 2 pts
=. Hagane Shizuka -- 2 pts
27. Dave McFaste -- 1 pt


Teams

1. Dagnall Engineering -- 80 pts
2. Gillet -- 51 pts
3. HRT -- 48 pts
4. Jones Racing -- 41 pts
5. Arrowtech -- 27 pts
6. GRM -- 21 pts
7. American Racing -- 16 pts
8. Prospec -- 12 pts
9. Sunshine -- 11 pts
10. Foxdale -- 10 pts
11. Kamaha -- 6 pts
12. MRT -- 4 pts
=. Flying Fish -- 4 pts
14. FAT -- 3 pts
15. Phoenix -- 2 pts
16. Calinetic -- 1 pt

[dr-baker]

F1RWRS 2013 - Round 13/16 - MACAU GP - Macau Street Circuit

PRE-QUALIFYING

--Drivers in bold (from top 3 combined times), go into main qualifying

[b]1. Ben Fleet (Foxdale) -- 1.56.006
2. Douglas Mann (Foxdale) -- 1.57.493 (+1.487)

Predictable. About as predictable as Ben Fleet going on to get pole pole position and Foxdale getting another double-DNF...

[Klon]

Predictable. About as predictable as Ben Fleet going on to get pole pole position and Foxdale getting another double-DNF...

To be honest, I would love to see Foxdale finish ... in second and third. Not behind me, necessarily, but generally in second or third. That would be in a way ironic. I love irony.

[Shizuka]

I really hope to keep this form up for this and the next race with FAT. At least now we had split the Sunshine drivers, but who knows what will happen here...

[SuperAguri]

Prodrive are a bunch of cheap fools, the fox told me how much of a pittance they offered him, it was an insult to the great man himself. As for Melrose, if I was running the team, I would have fired him. How dare he talk to The Fox like that, does he not know how great this man is? I would rather put some fat arsed 13 year old boy that has done one kart race and came last in the seat rather then watch Melrose race again.

Phew, Saeed Al Faisal just made it with one hot lap as we were still building his car at the start of the session.

That Kay Lon is getting too big for his smelly old boots, and Douglas he does not have sour grapes, he has vineyard of them which he crushed with his own smelly feet to make Grapes de la plonk. So he can drown his sorrows when he does badly again.

[The Lukas]

Sobczyk: Drivers will have to pay for starts
It seems that despite the purchase SOTL team that no longer will be converted into long Dofasco F1RWRS Racing Grzegosz Sobczyk told Blick newspaper interview for "hiring policy" Pay driver "is not enforced until the team will gain a strong sponsor." Nor do we know who will be ridden in a team Sobczyk next season driving the team that picks the several drivers are Katsumi Yamamoto riding in Formula Nippon or Alexey Pchelintsev but it has been confirmed to start in the Budweiser 500 in the colors of Garry Rogers Motorsport, Sobczyk is reportedly interested .David Koczo in Calinetic team.

[Klon]

Look who is talking. The person with an ego the size of IC 1101. You crippled a successful team just because you could not handle the fact that I am a better driver than you are. You have released anyone was on my side and designed a car that highlighted the few flaws my racecraft has. Racing fans all over the world will forever have to ponder the question just how successful Kahama could be if it were not for your ego. Oh, and I happen to notice that TV cameras are here. This is why I will use this opportunity to announce my new merchandising set: first off, my new "Best In The World" shirt - show everyone just what a proud fan of me and Jones Racing you are and order it on www.castroljones.eu/fanshop ... and more importantly, my book about my former boss: "Barii Mori - A Cult Of Personality". It will be a hell of a read, I can promise you that. It will be available at www.castroljones.eu/fanshop before the beginning of the 2014 season.

[AndreaModa]

I'd just like to chip in and correct my driver Kay Lon there for a second, the website is in fact castroljones.co.uk thank you!

[Klon]

Well, I have always said we should take a eu. domain, it looks better.

[TomWazzleshaw]

11th on the grid is good in a car that has been clearly struggling in terms of one lap pace as before my last gasp attempt where I found over half a second I was stranded in the mid teens. Hopefully this grid position can translate into a points finish tomorrow.

[the Masked Lapwing]

Shite, this car is quick. What was HRT thinking with their car? Oh, right, reliability.

[Klon]

This session did not really work out, there is no excuse for us failing. The car does not work well with this circuit apparentely and neither myself or Sammy showed legendary driving around here. I guess this race will be about picking up scraps - and I feel there will be some scraps alright.

[Shizuka]

QUALIFYING
14. Hagane Shizuka (Sunshine) -- 1.59.105 (+2.215)

That's FAT for this race... did I switch teams between PQ and Q?

[MinardiFan95]

Oh, firetruck, another DNQ. The car didn't feel too good in the tight twisty sections of the course and the engine had developed a misfire halfway through the lap. Add to that the fact that I've never really liked Macau despite being labelled a street course specialist. Excuse me while I head off to trash a hotel room... just kidding, I'm not that easily ticked off. It will be good though to go and try one of Ron Mignolet's famous Belgian waffles and possibly head off to the Foxdale garage for a barbecue lunch.

[dr-baker]

Predictable. About as predictable as Ben Fleet going on to get pole pole position and Foxdale getting another double-DNF...

To be honest, I would love to see Foxdale finish ... in second and third. Not behind me, necessarily, but generally in second or third. That would be in a way ironic. I love irony.

Yes, would be ironic, wouldn't it? Actually, now that you mention it, everybody at Foxdale is feeling a bit , worried that it may now indeed happen...

It will be good though to go and try one of Ron Mignolet's famous Belgian waffles and possibly head off to the Foxdale garage for a barbecue lunch.

Sorry but the legendary barbies are only on racedays once the engines have got nice and hot...
Although something might be arranged for other days if there is enough demand

[SuperAguri]

It would be more ironic if Foxdale finished in 7th and 8th positions a lap down. Haha, good joke huh? With Shinobu in 7th on the grid, a good start hopefully will see her score more points

Well we did not do too well as we don't have the Engine grunt, but we are fast through the slow parts. I hope that we can just pick up some points, at least Dave Simpson can't just run me off the track at the first corner.

[dr-baker]

It would be more ironic if Foxdale finished in 7th and 8th positions a lap down. Haha, good joke huh?

It would probably just be ironic seeing a Foxdale finish full stop. So much so that we would have to blow the car up, just so that it could still be used for the team barbeque...

[Phoenix]

OK. Let me make this clear... You're offering me to leave my very own team in a lurch for a crummy F2RWRS drive that may not materialize and a reserve driver role in your main team? Now this is the last time you've laughed at me on my face. Yes, we DNPQed again, but we are still a very proud bunch and I actually make more money than you do, I am much more attractive, your girlfriend left you for me and she's still with me and I derive more pleasure from racing than you do, even in my circumstances. Go offer that stupid offer to anyone else.

[Ducktanian]

I am very happy with my 26th place at qualifying, although not really with the quality of the car.
Now excuse me whilst I hop off to the pub before the race, you wanna join? ;D

[Aerond]

Mark Dagnall said:

Qualifying as it should be. I´ll drink lots of Monstah so my father doesn´t pass me!

[AdrianSutil]

I know it's a little early seeing as the current season is still going, but is there space for me to enter a two-car team for next year?

[Aerond]

I guess there´ll be a one or two entries available for next season; but entries available will be published at the end of the season along with the list of chassis and engines available.

[Klon]

Michael Schumacher To Participate In Suzuka Charity Race?

Despite the entry list for the Suzuka Charity Race not being open yet, someone has been looking for it. Kay Lon, German F1RWRS driver, is interested in having the 7-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher on the grid.

"Yes, indeed, I want to see Michael on the grid for that race," he said to one of our reporters although he refused to state why. Apparentely he is also ready to give quite a lot to appeal to Schumi's generousity. The list of times that would be sold for charity organisations of Schumacher's choice would include: the Ford C-Max 2.0 L Duratorq TDCi I4 given to K. Lon by Ford during the 2010 F1RWRS season, one tire of the car Kay Lon won his first race with and two paintings by Stefan Lenke, both worth somewhere around £150,000

Sadly we were not able to get a reaction from Schumacher, who enters the second year of his new three car contract with Mercedes GP, yet.

[SuperAguri]

Michael Schumacher To Participate In Suzuka Charity Race?

Why do we need that clown in F1RWRS? Everyone knows that F1RWRS is the pinnacle of motorsport and only maybe Sebastian Vettel and Kamui Kobayashi could hold a candle to the current F1RWRS drivers. Maybe Kay Lon should just consider honing his racecraft skills.

[Klon]

My driving skills are honed, my dear Morii, but of course they do not match your supernatural skills ... regarding being manipulative and sabotaging good drivers, that is. I have a good reason for my actions which I cannot reveal until I have his participation confirmed.

[tommykl]

Well, a double retirement isn't exactly what we had in mind for our latest results. Our main goal for the rest of the season will be to simply finish the races, usually meaning scoring good points, which should help us consolidate our second place in both championships. Of course, teams with pay drivers have a much quicker development rate, and that's why we're dropping back in qualifying, but I refuse to hire one until the team drops into regular failure to qualify.

Also, Gillet-Ecurie Nationale Belge would like to confirm their three drivers for the non-championship Budweiser 500 as regular drivers Thomas De Bock and Aurelien Moll as well as junior driver Laurent Seron, who will be looking to gain experience in high-level single-seaters towards his début in the F2RWRS in 2014.

29. Thomas De Bock
30. Aurelien Moll
31. Laurent Seron

[Aerond]

Macau results up!

[Klon]

No irony for me then, I guess.

[AndreaModa]

Bugger. Gutted to have run out of fuel on the last lap, there must have been something wrong with the fuel pump after my third stop. Anyhow at least Kay picked up another point for us, every one is going to count at the end of the year to be honest. We still have three races to try and secure third place in the constructors' championship at the very least, and that's what we'll be focussing on until the season is out. Over the year our general pace has dropped off in comparison to others, and the main reason for this has been that our attention has been focused on getting our new car, the CJR-202, ready for testing for next season. Progress is going very well, and we hope the car can challenge for both championships next year.

[dr-baker]

NO BATHPLUGGING WAY !!!!!!!1 WE DID IT !!!!!!!!!!! WE ACTUALLY FLAMEWARRING DID IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody round ours tonight for a barbeque and some ironically nice Manx Spirit. (Anybody here actually tried it before?)


In other news, now that Ben Fleet's pay-driver money has finally bought the team enough reliability to get one car to one race finish, his role is now threatened. Decision yet to be made.

[tristan1117]

Well, obviously, the team and myself did a great job today and our efforts paid off. I'm a bit disappointed that we weren't able to take the win today, as we were certainly in contention (and the Foxdales normally fail by then), but there will be other days. Great job guys!

[SuperAguri]

I feel sorry for Katayama, again she had the pace to challenge for a win, but an accident killed her chances off. The accident was because she was avoiding some rubbish on the track and went a little too wide. Well done to Saeed Al Faisal for a magical 4th, despite having to pit because of an electrical fault in the car, which did cost him nearly a minute as we reset the gearing system. A hearty congratulations to good old Douglas Mann for his amazing win, if Al Faisal did not have the fault too, then you would have been 2nd

Not quite sure what happened to Steele, one minute he was on the outskirts of a point and the next minute he retired. Still we are still in 11th, which is the lowest spot which gets us out of prequalifying so far.... Kay Lon, shut your cake hole, we shall see you in court just to show that you were just crap, rather then it being the fault of Kamaha.

Prince Falik seen talking to Ben Fleet


After Douglas Mann said that Ben Fleets position in the team was under threat, Prince Falik wasted no time gatecrashing the Foxdale garage and was seen handing Ben Fleet an envelope and was seen talking to hime most of the night. He ate a grilled corn on the cob and drank some orange juice. After the pace that Ben Fleet has shown, we are at a loss at why Douglas Mann would even consider geting rid of a fast and rich driver.

[Klon]

If you actually were in court once, then we'd see us. But you stall and stall and stall and stall. You know you have nothing so stop this waste of money and time.

[tommykl]

Incidentally, Pratchett's second place is the best result for an American driver since T. Hemo Goblin's second position at the 2011 Belgian GP and the first American podium since the same Hemo Goblin's third at the 2011 Dutch GP. The last and only American driver to win a race is still Dan BH, who won the 2010 Saxon GP.

[Shizuka]

I'm so sorry for FAT messing up a decent opportunity so snatch another point in. I bathplug it up... One more race, we'll see...

[Aerond]

Mark Dagnall said:

Bathplug! Bathplug, Bathplug, Bathplug... I was doing my bathplugging best driver evah, and then the cars stops like a bitch... At least I´m the World Champion, You listen to me? I´m the world bathplugging champion!! Now monstah and deep techno. I´ve asked Alguersaurus to come and DJ for a bit after Foxdale´s barbecue.

[the Masked Lapwing]

I am absolutely gutted that we didn't win today. The car was great, and I could have beaten Pratchett had we not run out of fuel. But regardless, congratulations Collin on your unrejectfication, and to Douglas and the Foxdale team, for not blwing up for once. And of course, well done Mark. Watch out for next year!

By the way Aerond, you didn't respond to my request for the pictures...

[TomWazzleshaw]

Another burn from the stern, another points finish by the end of it. I've always felt some of my best drives in Formula One have either come from lowly grid positions or early incidents and here in the F1RWRS it's no different as I went from stone dead motherless last on lap 1 to 5th place by the end of it. Hopefully more drives like that will increase my chances to get a seat at another team next season.

[Klon]

El Presidente offers Melrose drive

With the debut of Tropico Grand Prix powered by CR Motorsport only a few months away, El Presidente and the German council leading the team are looking for a big-name driver. Daniel Melrose, winner of the Formolo 1 Championship, has been given an offer by the generous El Presidente.

"When Senor Melrose desides to join the great team of Tropico Grand Prix, he will have eighty staff bow down to his wills and whims as if he were El Presidente himself," our leader said to Tropico News Today.

Regarding the second driver for Tropico GP, rumours have reached us that either a rich alumnus of the Virgin Intercorse Racing School will become the second driver or the team will keep the legendary Darren Older Jr..

Also, making the first and decisive step to see the team becoming a true national effort, Alberto Cara, son of the famous palace guard soldier who shot down five vicious rebels last year, has been confirmed as the test driver.

[TomWazzleshaw]

That is simply THE post of the year me thinks