Round 14 - Oulton Park - The Race part 1/3Welcome everybody to the race today at the Oulton Park circuit. In a rainy qualifying yesterday Ouen Edvardsen was the fastest man and took pole position, ahead of Maikel de Boer. Championship leader Aspenström only managed to get p17 in this tricky conditions, so it's the big chance today for his rivals to close the gap.
Unlike yesterday the sun is shining, at least at the moment, but the weather forecast says that there are rain clouds coming towards us in one hour
The red lights are already on, so let's go straight to the track
A great start by de Boer, he's side by side with Edvardsen.
And he takes the lead!
Silvestre kept his place and is behind the Finn now
Nikolov in 4th
Hunsley has lost one position to Kamikaze, and Vilela has passed McGregor
Silva is in 9th
Tafuro in 11th, he has passed Kederer
The field is rushing towards Shell Oils Corner
No overtaking attempts at the top of the field
Vilela with a great move passes Hunsley on the outside
Nobody wants to risk to much here, everyone stays in the line
That's Maverick, he has touched Johnson under braking
He spins!
And is facing in the wrong direction now
Another car hits him and he crashes into the tyrewall! That's the end of Maverick's race!
Antunis and Aspenström are stuck and lose some places
At the front de Boer is still leading
Tafuro overtakes Girard
Copeman tries at the same place, but Byrne blocks him
Next lap Silva wants to pass McGregor, but the Australian defends his position
Fastest lap for de Boer as Silva tries again
He uses the slipstream and gets past
Byrne wants to pass Aspenström into Cascades
But the Swede has the better traction and keps his place
McGregor under big pressure locks up his brakes
And Johnson uses this situation to pass Kederer
The battle for p20, Antunis wins it
That's McGregor running wide! He tried to defend against Tafuro and got off the racing line in Island Bend!
A high speed spin, let's hope this goes well
It did, McGregor catched the car and avoided to crash in the wall, but he's in last now
With four laps done, here are the standings
Fastest lap by Tafuro
And here the rest of the standings
Silva now right behind Hunsley
Aspenström only in 18th, he'll be praying for some rain to mix the grid up
Edvardsen has spun! No collision, he just was to fast in the corner
Yellow flags now being waved, hopefully everyone slows down now
After a power spin he continues in 20th
Nikolov, Kamikaze and Vilela now all up one place
And Silva tries to make that two by passing Hunsley, but fails
de Boer with a comfortable lead
Silva can't find a way to pass the Englishman
Marinescu shows how it can be done, p13 now for him
Antunis and Copeman still fighting at the back of the field
Vilela really close to Kamikaze, I think we'll soon see an overtaking attempt
Girard in 9th still holding up Johnson who seems to be faster
And Silva finally finds a way past Hunsley
Edvardsen fights back through the field
That's already quite a gap, Silva is really fast today
Jantsher defends against Brilley as we see the standings after 9 laps
Brilley takes the inside
and gets past
But Jantsher fights back
Three man side by side, don't be stupid, guys!
He doesn't want to give up
After 5 corners Brilley finally wins the fight
Byrne is the next one who tries
And he passes Jantsher way easier than Brilley did
Johnson attacks Girard and passes him
The battle for p7, Hunsley vs Tafuro
That gap was already bigger some laps before, Silvestre is chasing de Boer!
Tafuro goes out of the slipstream
and overtakes Hunsley
A few seconds later Byrne does the same with Brilley
Antunis is off!
He had too much speed into turn 1
This drops him back behind McGregor
Silva is off at Island Bend!
He was too fast while trying to close the gap to Vilela
This drops him back to last place
Meanwhile the gap between the top 2 is under one second
Girard with the wrong line in Hislop's
Kederer passes him, and Vukcevic tries too
But Girard gets back on the track and shuts the door
With the first stops to come soon, it's time for a little brake. Stay tuned!