Season 14, Round 10 - Canadian GP @ MontrealThe GPGSL welcomes all to the beautiful city of Montreal, Canada, for the running of the Season 14, Round 10 Canadian GP.
As we get towards the tail end of the season, championship leader Marcus De Bruyker has a
The grid cleared, nearly ready for lights out and GO....
It's all go for the Canadian GP, with a fairly even start for all it seems...
Pedersen leads the field through Turn 1, with no sign of trouble behind....
The field stretching out in a well behaved line so far....
The midfield all tucked in together....
Tail gunner on the field on Lap 1, Luke Russell....
The MAC leads the field down the back straight, coming to complete the first lap....
Lap 1 in the books....
Oh no! Smoke from the MMM entry of Gustavo, super early in the race....
Smoking out those behind him, the MMM's day may be over before it got going...
Race over for Vitor Gustavo....
Pedersen now has a break on the chasing pack, after Gustavo's drama....
Positions 2, 3 and 4. Scala, Silva and Rodriguez....
The first real signs of action in the race, Kederer takes a look at Hinz, heading into the final corner...
Kederer plays it smart, keeps his nose clean and lives to fight another day, with Hinz keeping the position....
Silva has Rodriguez tucked in behind him as they exit the last turn, onto the front straight...
The MTP driver right on the tail of Silva...
And Rodriguez makes the move, heading into Turn 1....
Silva now in 4th, trailed by DMR pair Vilela and McCarthy, then Karda and McClure...
Whilst it is Pedersen out in the lead, fellow MAC driver Greidanus is down in 16th...
A quick look at the full race standings after 4 laps...
Canada's own, Daniel Bouchard down in 12th spot early in the race...
The Hinz-Kederer battle is on again...
This time, Kederer prevails. Hinz sensibly allows the Alpha to move ahead without fighting too hard...
Scala leads his team mate, with the rest of the top 8 all in clear view behind...
Positions 9-16....
And 17th through to last....
The MTP boys having a great fight with each other...
Side by side through the first couple of corners on lap 6....
Scala keeps the position....
Darkness of the MTP cars, lit up by the colours of the chasing pack behind them...
Vilela sees an opportunity to attack Silva....
But it doesn't work...
The DMR driver loses control....
Vilela rolls out onto the apex of the corner though.... UH OH!!!.....
Silva runs through the gravel, whilst Vilela has spun himself backwards due to the contact with Silva...
Vilela facing backwards, with team mate McCarthy with absolutely nowhere to go....
McCarthy slams into his team mate....
Vilela gets sent back into the racing line, and towards the Wall of Champions...
Vilela then manages to send himself back across the track, smashes his front wing into the pit entry wall....
Race over for McCarthy, due to the collision....
Silva still in the dirt, recovering.....
As the field passes the incident, Luke Russell nearly causes another incident, narrowly missing the stricken DMR or McCarthy....
Silva finally returns to the race track, as McCarthy's now dead DMR sits in the gravel..
Vilela gets himself into pit lane, after some crazy moments of driving....
Meanwhile, it is Pedersen out front, leading by over 6 seconds....
Scala has Rodriguez in close tow, as the wounded DMR in the background gets removed....
Rodriguez makes the pass on team mate Scala...
Rodriguez clearly has pace to burn, pulling out 1.5 seconds on his team mate...
Pedersen leads the two MTP drivers...
Positions 9-16....
Positions 17-22....
Dominik Karda has kept out of early trouble, and runs in a strong 4th position...
Daly McClure in 5th, has also managed to avoid trouble and has a good chance of a strong result today....
Defending series champ Tobias Kederer in 6th....
Christopher Hinz in 7th, has current championship leader Marcus De Bruyker breathing down his neck....
Daniel Bouchard up to 9th in front of his native crowd...
Sean O'Neill runs in 10th as we reach the 1/3 mark of the race....
Tyrant's Aritra Majumdar in 11th....
SCR's Joseph Gilson holds 12th spot down...
Ruben Greidanus down in 13th, currently unable to match the pace of his team mate....
Jeroen Buitenhuis in the MMM, sits in 14th spot....
Jack Elleker in 15th, will be hoping the race improves for him....
Ennis Praachki in 16th for SCR....
Ryo Sakata in 17th for Christel....
And the second Christel of Luke Russell behind....
De Bruyker has spooked Hinz ahead of him, into a bit of defensive driving...
Hinz moves straight back in front of the Tyrant driver....
A locked brake from the Tyrant driver, as he taps the AMR ahead of him....
The AMR of Hinz is off in the gravel at the hairpin, having been punted by De Bruyker....
Hinz's attempt to block the Tyrant behind him unsuccessful, the German now off track, almost in the fence at the bottom of the hairpin....
Hinz is able to recover, but....
He reverses back up the track, way past the apex of the corner!!
With Pedersen just under 6 seconds ahead, Rodriguez has cleared away from his team mate Scala...
Scala in 3rd, with a 3 second gap back to Karda behind him...
A full look at the current standings, as we see the first indication of pit stops to begin soon....
McClure in 5th, with Kederer just a way back, in pursuit...
Karda lurking behind Kederer, as we near the pit stops...
Rodriguez the first in pit lane, with a bunch of cars on the front straight....
The two Christels also appear in the distance, side by side heading towards the chicane...
Neither of the team mates wanted to give up, which causes a bit of trouble...
Sakata comes off second best, with Russell steaming on ahead....
The Japanese driver escapes damage, but loses plenty of time....
Back onto the track for Sakata...
And now to throw in another bizarre extra, we have light rain at the hairpin....
Positions 1-8.....
Positions 9-16....
Positions 17-22...
So, after a few big moments in this race already, we head to commercials....
Big notes to come out of the opening part of this race : What happened to that engine of the MMM? What was Vilela thinking going so hard, so early? What would McCarthy be thinking, with his team mate ruining his and the teams entire day? What would the DMR team manager be thinking right now....??Find out, after the break.....
Race Director: Ernie B. Ecclescake
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