Race Weekend - Tondela GP ERS Season 1

 

 



Predator Racing Group Blog

                                                        By Bob Power

Thursday

Tondela is here for race #4! For this past month we worked hard on our brake package with a hole new design for both cars (32) (32) . The feed back was positive from Bishop and Dunbar so they went ahead and installed them for the weekend. hopefully with the new design this will solve are breaking problems.
  
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Friday - Practice 

Morning final practice kicked off great with the new brakes design. Sevilla was able to hit a time of 1:24.274 to lock in 11th in practice but it was another story for Santa Ana she could only manage 1:27.588 she kept hitting traffic in all the wrong places.

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Race Day

As the rules states reversed driver points position grid Santa Ana will start 2nd and Sevilla will start 6th.

When the green flag dropped, we got a great start going into turn 1 as Santa Ana shot out to take the lead and Sevilla was able to steal 5th away.

 

Lap 2 saw a lot of action a mid pack car got loose and every one had to check up resulting in a lot of flat spot tires. Aurelie Dembele wasn't so lucky as he would slam into Bao Tang's car and both had to pit for wing damage. As all this was happening Santa Ana was extending her lead.

lap 3 saw Sofi Sevilla lock up and a call from Bishop made her pit early for softs.

by lap 4 Dreyfuss started to real in Santa Ana as tire ware started to show on this hot day. With that Ana was screaming over the radio at Dunbar and pitted for softs at lap 5. she would come out 8th after her stop.

After the first pit cycle at lap 8 Santa Ana was 5th, Sevilla was 6th.

Next round of pit stops would be around lap 14. Bishop and Dunbar both messed up Santa Ana and Sevilla stop, they both had fueling problems with both cars.

Last round of stops came around lap 22 with 10 to go Santa Ana would come out 9th after her stop and Sevilla would come out 12th.

Sevilla would catch up to Santa Ana and they both would battle it out to the finish going back and forth with each other with Santa Ana coming home to 11th and Sevilla 12th

Jha would win at Tondela, with Melo 2nd, and Cavalcanti 3rd.

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Race run down

Overall it wasnt what I was expecting we had at least a 8th / 9th place cars, but that's what you say "that's racen"on to Ardennes!

The GMA issued another post race penalty

Archer BMR - Driver Mustafa El Sanat - Failed post race inspection  -2 spots

After 4 races we sit in the drivers championship

Sofi Sevilla - 13th - 35 points
Ines Santa Ana - 18th - 25 points

In the team standings we sit 8th over all with 60 points