GTP 3rd PAL F1 Championship, Round 15 - Monza
Weather - Dry
Race order:
1st. GINTY72 - 10 pts (Red Bull)
2nd. +4.502 secs, Fastduck - 8 pts (Williams)
3rd. +6.796, Kingmart1n - 6 pts (Red Bull)
4th. +9.148, Kakundoo - 5 pts (Brawn GP)
5th. +9.618, Shaggy Alonso- 5 pts (Jordan GP)
6th. +18.697, Demarko777 - 3 pts (Jordan GP)
7th. +1 lap, PJ-FFL - 2 pts (Brawn GP)
8th. +1 lap, Scoop2004 - 1 pts (Lotus)
Pole Position - Kakundoo - 1:20.437
Fastest Lap - Shaggy Alonso - 1:20.509
Red Bull - 16 pts
Williams - 8 pts
Jordan GP - 8 pts
Brawn GP - 7 pts
Team Lotus - 1 pts
Quali went ok in that I put in a good lap but I never got any draft, and Jamie's 1:20.4 would have been unbeatable by me without draft so I had to settle for 2nd place on the grid.
I got a much better start than Jamie, but was actually in two minds over whether or not to try and overtake him as he would then be in my tow through the Curva Grande. I went for it, got past him, but then inevitably he got in my slipstream so I stayed well to the right to give him room to make the overtake without a crash (this is the most dangerous part of the circuit by far in this game). He duly got by me into Variante Della Roggia but I got a much better exit from this chicane and was right on him coming up to the first Lesmo, I eased off as I saw it was too tight for an overtake going through the corner, but as always, even though I wasn't touching him, his car spun and lost a wheel and I had to wait while we let the whole field through
By lap 3 I had caught up with Jamie again and was in his tow going through the Curva Grande, side by side when yet again the computer decides that we have made contact when we clearly hadn't and then points my nose in his direction, I bounce off him and straight into the wall and fortunately he escapes damage. This all happened despite me easing off and trying to give him a wide berth and not touching him, but the collision detection is abysmal and it resulted in an accident anyway
This put me last but one. I caught up with PJ, he went waaaaaaay too deep into turn one, I took my normal racing line and drove past, and then after the race I am informed that I wrecked his car
News to me 👎
I then caught up with my team mate Demarko, and when he made a small mistake at the Parabolica on lap 5, I got past coming out of it. However he was then in my slipstream down the whole pitstraight, I maintained my line on the right and let him get past as he had more speed. I then got a better exit out of the first chicane and again tried to be cautious when approaching him, but with his slipstream I was so much faster and it resulted in another bloody crash even though for about a full 1.5 secs before I hit him I had already eased off the throttle. He was weaving left and right quite alarmingly which I figured was due to him using the controller.
I tried to catch the pack back up, which wasn't helped by cutting the corner too much at the Rettifilio immediately after my first pit stop and getting an 8 second penalty
I eventually caught him up again and got in his slipstream down the back straight and pulled off a great outbraking manouvre into the Parabolica
(it's a shame you didn't record any of the rest of the race Demarko
) but it wasn't necessary anyway as he dived into the pits straight after. With this bit of slipstream down the backstraight and the overtake I nailed the fastest lap 👍 I was able to go one lap longer than Demarko and put in another good lap and came out of the pits a second or two infront.
By the last lap I was in 5th and had caught right up to Jamie, finishing just 5 tenths behind which I was proud of. My race pace had been very good, mainly low 1:21's with a few high 1:20's and no draft, but it counts for very little when you have a crashfest like I did. 3 crashes and a penalty, ugh :
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Big, big congratulations to Ginty on his first win. As you can see from the tables he had been having a bit of a bad run since his first races but now he's firmly back on form along with King and their double podium finish means they have leapfrogged Brawn GP by a full 5 points in the constructors table into second, and are only 5 points behind Jordan GP!
In the drivers, the Red Bull drivers are now 3rd and 4th. The points gap remains at 17 points between Jamie and I. If I win with fastest lap at Shanghai (not very likely, easily my worst track) and Jamie finishes 3rd or lower then I will have won the championship. I actually hope we can at least take it to Suzuka, where I hope Hemiata will be racing as well 👍
Here's the tables, please update Jamie along with the fastest laps and poles etc.
P.S. This wasn't actually your first pole of the season, remember you did that great lap at Melbourne?
I had never heard of "ASPI" before and was wondering what it meant
I'm hoping this will give me a picture with better clarity 👍 so I'm going to try to make the last three races and hopefully give some good video 
This one is in 16:9 format so it will at least get my whole TV screen 
with that said, I'm happy to have finished P4 
I was able to hold him off for the first lap as I got a good exit from the all important turn 13 but I knew I would have my work cut out for the rest of the race to try and keep him behind. On lap two, he got a better run at me out of turn 13 and when we both exited turn 14 we were pretty much side by side, he had the inside line going into the final corner so I relinquished the position. I was unable to catch him that lap but on the following lap I nailed him again into turn 14 but this time held the position for the start of the new lap. He came back at me going into turn one, then on turn two I was tagged and spun, but for whatever reason I seemed to come out of this one better as I still emerged in the lead but Jamie was now down to third behind Hemi. Demarko would have inherited second place but he pitted just before this, probably in order to avoid any accidents with the pack.
