Race 10 is today. That means when this race is done we are officially on the halfway point of the 2022 season.
Today we will race in Puntalia.
Here is the track we’re driving on today:
The top 10 results of the qualifying are as followed:
- Marlan Kalming 1:35.897
- Kasran is’Vaara 1:36.023 +0.126
- Matthieu Soyer 1:36.201 +0.304
- Haaland Rusnák 1:36.484 +0.587
- Pedro Wilson 1:36.976 +1.079
- Alphonse Dubost 1:37.011 +1.114
- Pablo Saez 1:37.155 +1.258
- Czesława Pajor 1:38.096 +2.199
- Mitch Noxal 1:38.492 +2.595
- Alfie Edarr Samatagh 1:38.583 +2.686
The race:
Almost half of the grid chose to start on the medium tyres, some in the top 10 opted to start on the soft tyres and some backmarkers decided to bite the bullet and start on the hard tyres. With such a spread of tyres a lot of different pitstop strategies were expected and lots of passing. Well, the fans got it for the most part. From the start of the race the drivers on the slower tyres were cutting through the field to the top positions. After 5 laps Dubost passed Kalming for the lead with Dubost starting on softs and Kalming on the medium tyres. Dubost and the other soft tyre runners were expected to come in the pits as the first drivers but the tyres seemed to hang on longer then expected. Both the medium and soft runners started to pit at the same time, with the drivers on hards staying out a bit longer. After the first round of pitstops the field was shaken up quite a lot. Kalming was leading again with a comfertable lead followed by his teammate Rusnák. In lap 30 Soyer and is’Vaara were both behind Dubost for a while and tried everything to pass him, but he gave up a fight having never been this high in the standings. On the backstraight both Soyer and is’Vaara had DRS and wanted to pass Dubost at the same time at both sides. After a bit of squezing from is’Vaara there wasn’t enough room and Dubost hit him on his right rear, sending is’Vaara right into Soyer losing both their front wing. Which meant costly time they both had to spend in the pits waiting for the team and eachother. Dubost was seen as the one being wrong and he got a 5 seconds penalty added to his next stop. In lap 40 Arntsen came to a grinding halt when his engine decided to go on a strike. The VSC was called because the car was in a dangerous spot and this triggered lots of stops. In lap 45 Glemzaite’s gearbox failed causing a VSC again. During all of this the fight for the points got bigger and bigger. Pajor, Dubost, Iveli, Wilson and Soyer were all close to eachother and passed eachother every chance they got. They lost a lot of time because of the big fights, but it was a great fight to watch. 1 lap before the end Louzar’s gearbox failed but she would be qualified since she completed more then 80% of the race.
The results:
- Marlan Kalming
- Haaland Rusnák
- Pablo Saez
- Kasran is’Vaara
- Czesława Pajor
- Alphonse Dubost
- Pedro Wilson
- Kiha Iveli
- Matthieu Soyer
- Stefan Amanar
- Marianna Edifredi
- Sirio Kobayashi
- Alfie Edarr Samatagh
- Mitch Noxal
- Nákel Intásime
- Aedan Jaosar Lanfie
- Mikal Christoffersen
- Josephina Louzar
DNF. Žydre Glemzaite
DNF. Leo Arntsen
Now the top 3 in the standings:
- Matthieu Soyer (Novia Racing) 167 points
2. Marlan Kalming (Spiiker Squadron) 166 points
3. Haaland Rusnák (Spiiker Squadron) 123 points
- Spiiker Squadron 289 points
- Novia Racing 280 points
- Bernitti-Domio 231 pointz