Race REPORT & PICTURES - 03 - China GP (Shanghai)

Shanghai Pics:


PRE-RACE
Arek: Just China
Sexy: I'm glad you didn't miss your geography class!


PRE-RACE
Arek: A view of the grid from the main stand.
Sexy: The government forbids people on the stands there (that's why the chairs are empty - /drumroll)... (sorry, Alex... )


PRE-RACE
Arek: Lau on pole position
Sexy: His first one in the rFR League - congrats, lau!


LAP 1
Arek: Start!!!
Sexy: GO GO GO!!! But wait!!!... Where's Wally/Waldo?!...


LAP 1
Arek: Joe McLaggen takes the first corner as 1st!
Sexy: GREAT start, mate!!!


LAP 1
Arek: Joe leaves the first chicane without any problems
Sexy: He was doing a pretty good job until then!...


LAP 1
Arek: But Arek doesn't have such luck after a contact with Grisu
Sexy: Now replace the word 'luck' by 'skill' and read Arek's sentence again... It'll make more sense.


LAP 1
Arek: Just a corner
Sexy: Just a caption.


LAP 1
Arek: Jure misses his braking point hitting Tony and Backmarker.
Sexy: Almost a strike!


LAP 1
Arek: Joe (1st), Lau, Alex Hill (home GP), Denis and Grisu
Sexy: Looks like a carroussel...


LAP 1
Arek: Whoops! Tony loses his rear... Is that because he lost his focus watching Jure and ADI having problems too?
Sexy: I guess there was some naked chinese chick on the stands... Oh, no. It was just a fat guy selling some pizza slices...


LAP 1
Arek: Tony spins hitting Adrian S Shole which ends up by another spin, this time for our Kangaroo...
Sexy: Ooh... Messy!...


LAP 1
Arek: Arek tries to recover positions. Here he is atempting to overtake Tom and soutie. And does it in the harpin
Sexy: You pressed the 'Luck Of The Noob' button again - I know...


LAP 1
Arek: Joe goes wide and gets a jump driving through bumps.
Sexy: Joe pressed the 'Mexican Beans' button by accident... But I think everyone just wants to be Webber in this track...


LAP 2
Arek: Another bad luck for him. Joe touches Lau and spins himself.
Sexy: Damn, Joe! Why did you steal that bad luck from me?!...


LAP 2
Arek: Some lag on the server and Arek gets another spin hit by Tom.
Sexy: Sure, sure... blame it on the poor lag...


LAP 3
Arek: Grisu overtakes Denis in T1 taking 3rd place.
Sexy: Girus Biebs, trying to recover from the previous weekend at Bahrain, which was just terrible for him... Good job so far!


LAP 3
Arek: Sexy who is 5th! has to defend himself agaisnt Luft. Otti and soutie who started as (I don't know 16th?) are right behind them.
Sexy: 14th, seu juvenil!... Anyway... Those first laps were too damn hard for me! With Hard tyres, I needed some time for them to heat up and I had lots of fights in front and behind of me and I was trying to keep my position the best I could - Luft brakes a lot better (or just later) than me, so it was really hard to hold him back, but... I did it!!!


LAP 4
Arek: Tom McKay (10th) Arek who passed Sven a while before and Joe McLaggen.
Sexy: I must admit it's a little 'weird' to see you guys on these positions, but... I see you were all having some good fights and fun, so... that's great as well!


LAP 4
Arek: Arek tries to pass Tom too but makes a mistake and touches his car. This is how it ends up...
Sexy: Yes, the picture 'says' it all... - good job!


LAP 4
Arek: Joe overtakes Sven by the outside and jumps up to 10th.
Sexy: Joe was making the best recovery race he could!


LAP 5
Arek: Otti passes Luft_inspektor and takes the 6th place. soutie and Blackfox are watching the action from behind.
Sexy: Damn voyeurs!... Pervs!...


LAP 5
Arek: Battle between Jure and Arek. Arek passes him taking the 15th place but a while later defending his position makes another mistake in the harpin and gets spin...
Sexy:


LAP 5
Arek: The same time we got some good party in the harpin. Joe and Sven fighting each other start to lose the time that Backmarker and ADI catches them. It ends up bad for ADI who spins in the last turn.
Sexy: ADI struggled the whole week/weekend to find a good setup for his car and unfortunately he failed... tried the best he could in the race, but it was just a 'not so great weekend' anyway... - better luck at Portugal, Mate!


LAP 6
Arek: Otti makes a mistake fighting vs Luft and spins. soutie earns two places and is 6th now.
Sexy: That was pretty good to me! I had Otti, Luft and soutie on my mirror and I knew it wasn't going to be easy to keep them behind, but as I mentioned on the shouting thread, I also got a little lucky in this race (finally) and the guys fighting for positions in front and behind of me and also making mistakes helped me a lot to keep my position and a good pace - thanks, guys! Pliss, do it again (and again) in the future races!!!


LAP 6
Arek: Another party in the harpin. This time Backmarker passes Sven and Joe both! Nice move! Half lap later Joe spins trying to get his possition back...
Sexy: Poor Joe...


LAP 7
Arek: soutie passes Sexy Brigadeiro and gets up to 5th. Luft spins losing 4 places.
Sexy: That was expected and I actually wanted him to pass me quickly, so I wouldn't lose too much time - and Luft wouldn't get so close to me - and also soutie would certainly catch Denis and Grisu in front of me and fight with them, making them all lose some time, which was also good for me! And, again, I was lucky, because that worked (I was able to keep their pace, even from a certain distance) and Luft, who was behind me and could try to overtake me, spun! So I was like... YAY!!!


LAP 8
Arek: Battle between Black and Otti for the 7th place. Otti saves his position after nice counter and goes to the pits.
Sexy: Dildo Boy and his bag of 'tricks'... (and dildos - that scared BlackFox, so it was easier to pass!)


LAP 9
Arek: Backmarker makes a mistake and Cueball (yeah this is Cueball who wears Svens helmet by mistake) take his 9th place but only for a while. Backmarker takes his back in the harpin. Luft_inspektor in the first plan.
Sexy: Actually, cueball left his helmet on Bahrain... I hope they sent it to Portugal already...


LAP 9
Arek: Alex Hill (2nd) gos to the pits. Right after rejoining the track has an incident with Backmarker which costs him some time.
Sexy: Poor China Boy! He wanted to have a better race at home...


LAP 10
Arek: soutie passes Denis and jumps up to 3rd.
Sexy: And my plan was still working! Now it was time for soutie to catch and fight against Grisu and lau - I got a little closer to Denis, thanks to their little fight! Yes, my little puppets! Keep fighting!! BWAHAHAHA!!!


LAP 10
Arek: The leader Lau in the pits. Meanwhile Denis gets his place back from soutie in T1.
Sexy: That also worked pretty well! soutie couldn't get to Grisu right away, so he kept fighting against Denis and I could get even closer, little by little - yessss, my prrrrreciousssss!!!..


LAP 11
Arek: Bober vs Jure Pazin. Battle for the 10th place. Jure saves his position but Bober gets hit from Alex Hill and spins in the next turn
Sexy:


LAP 12
Arek: Grisu leaves the pits and that means... Denis takes the lead!
Sexy: And I was there too!!! (I mean, close to Denis, but not in the picture...)


LAP 12
Arek: Tom McKay (10th), raikkO and Jure Pazin.
Sexy: I'm glad raikkO was there...


LAP 13
Arek: Blackfox makes a good use of his fresh tyres and passes Tom and then raikkO.
Sexy: 'When the colour in the mirror is red, it's time for the kids to go to bed!' - or something like that...


LAP 14
Arek: soutie atfer quite a long time finally overtakes Denis and takes the lead.
Sexy: Thanks, soutie and Denis!


LAP 14
Arek: Jackblack (16th) tries to pass ADI right before his suicide move. xP Sven in the background.
Sexy: R.I.P. A.D.I.


LAP 14
Arek: Luft (7th) and Cueball go in the pits.
Sexy: Actually they were both just going to pee...


LAP 14
Arek: Denis (2nd) and Sexy come to the pits at the same moment
Sexy: ...and the photographer just missed the main action: AMAZING PIT STOP OVERTAKE, by Sexy!!! but don't worry, kids! We have a VIDEO of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCkaxiNfSOY&hd=1


LAP 16
Arek: soutie leaves the pits on the 3rd place but Sexy and Denis were close to catch him. Lau gets back to the lead, Grisu is 2nd.
Sexy: I knew lau and Grisu were going to stop again, so... I was hoping to fight for the 2nd or 3rd place in the end if I was able to keep a good pace and, most importantly, keep Denis behind... It wasn't easy, but I did a good job... almost until the end of the race...


LAP 16
Arek: Denis couldn't pass Sexy so Alex Hill do that to him taking his 5th place. But one lap later Denis takes it back at the same place.
Sexy: Another fight that was pretty damn good to me - BWAHAHAHAHA!!!


LAP 17
Arek: Wallagada (18th) wanted to have a nice picture too so here it is
Sexy: Arek Clauss (distributing presents to the kids) - HO HO HO!!!


LAP 20
Arek: The Chinese Dragon leaves the pits right behind Luft (9th)
Sexy: He wished his helmet had 'super powers', like on the chinese movies...


LAP 20
Arek: A while later time for Lau who rejoins right behind Denis (4th).
Sexy: Another good thing for me, since I knew they would fight against each other - HA!


LAP 20
Arek: Lau overtakes Denis and takes the 4th place.
Sexy: That was when my plan was starting to stop working...


LAP 21
Arek: His next goal is Sexy. Meanthile Grisu goes to the pits and they jump up to 2nd and 3rd.
Sexy: By that time, I already knew it was going to be impossible to keep lau behind, so maybe the best was to let him go and see if he could catch soutie and hope both of them had worse tyres than me in the very last laps, or even get involved on a race incident while fighting with each other, so I could earn their positions and even win the race - LOL - yes, I swear I thought about that possibility... But I still had to worry about Denis who was actually a little faster than me and also Grisu who would come back with freash tyres and was waaaaay faster than me - so I knew he would catch me too... and then my very last hope to keep that 3rd place was for Grisu and Denis to fight against each other and... that was EXACTLY what happened, but... someone 'had' to screw up my plans, right?!?!?!... And that someone was ME.


LAP 24
Arek: Black tries to save his place against Joe the same trying to slow him down for his teammate
Sexy: Nasty Ferrari tatics!...


LAP 24
Arek: Alex Hill overtakes Luft and takes the 7th place.
Sexy: China Boy was still trying to impress his fans at home!


LAP 25
Arek: Sexy (3rd) makes a mistake and lose two places for Denis and Grisu!
Sexy: ...as I was saying... - DAMN YOU, STUPID KERB FROM HELL!!! Who put glue on it?!?!?!... Michal?!...


LAP 25
Arek: Bober vs Adrian for the 15th place.
Sexy: This race had great battles in all sectors of the grid!


LAP 26
Arek: Black continues his job. His teammate is really close now!
Sexy: Sorry, Joe, I wasn't around to help you against the evil Ferraris!...


LAP 26
Arek: Oh no! His teammate spins losing all chances to score! Then Joe overtakes Black and jumps up to 9th.
Sexy: HA!!! Their spell turned against themselves!!! ARRIBA, MUCHACHO!!!


LAP 28 - LAST LAP!
Arek: Grisu overtakes Denis after a heavy fight and takes 3rd place!
Sexy: I was still hoping that a fight between them could help me a little bit again, but my tyres were already fucked up...


LAP 28 - LAST LAP!
Arek: Lau overtakes soutie, then he spins his car in the harpin! Lau takes the lead one corner to the checkered flag!
Sexy: When I saw the smoke from his tyres, I was hoping it was a crash (and not just a spin), so I could earn an extra place! Damn, soutie! Why didn't you just... I don't know... crash?!


LAP 28 - LAST LAP!
Arek: And wins the race!
Sexy: So... first Pole and also first Win - VERY well done, lau!!!


LAP 28 - LAST LAP!
Arek: soutie is 2nd!
Sexy: From 14th to 2nd... not bad at all!


LAP 28 - LAST LAP!
Arek: Grisu finishes as 3rd!
Sexy: DAMN! It could've been ME in this picture!!!

CHINA FULL RESULTS
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