RIANC CONTINUES HIS HAAS DOMINANCE IN FRANCE GP!

Rialien put in another world class performance in Haas to bring him his third consecutive win this season. Valward followed him close in Mercedes to give him his best result in A1881. AdamLindberg brought Williams third, wildcarding for The Tapeguy...

Rianc started on pole as expected and saved himself from DRS to drive comfortably throughout the first stint. After pits Valward seemed to cope better with traffic and in second stint they were at each others’ DRS distance. Rianc played confidently and saved enough ERS to run a city, even lifting off throttle on straight for not overtaking Valward at some point. He showed the reason for picking this boring track with another magnificient performance and gave another one of his already classic interviews:

Rianc: Qualifying being a short qualifying was a bit of a curveball and not having much knowledge of the track I didn’t make the line for my final run, but fortunately my second lap was good enough for pole.

I started the race on softs and got off to a good start. I got away well and got out of drs, starting on the softs was a risky strategy as the tyre wear on the Haas is pretty bad but the hards for me weren’t a good race tyre around France so I had to try and save a lot of tyres in the first stint, at the same time as trying to keep Valward out of drs. Pushing to keep Valward out of drs hurt my tyres which led me to change my strategy a little bit. I had to pit on to the mediums a few laps earlier than I wanted which led to me having to overtake majority of the pack and losing time and battery, I decided to let Valward go infront and I sat behind saving drs and a bit of tyres until the last few laps. I noticed Valward’s red light flash with around 3-4 laps to go and I decided to go for the move and break drs as I had a full battery but I wasn’t able to, so I let Valward back through so I could build a little more battery and go for attack on the last lap which thankfully worked out…

This made the alien of the grid sitting comfortably on top of the table winning all races this season. Valward was the guy to push him in the absence of Rothnz and at a bad day for Haggisnt. This performance brought him his first P2 in A1881 and brought him up in standings into the title fight. Behind him was AdamLindberg wildcarding for Rothnz the tapeguy in Williams and despite having a bit of a lonely race he extracted the most out of his Willie to make Rothnz great again…

Bhavish in Ferrari deserves a seperate paragraph, showing incredible improvement in his relatively new no-assist challange and put in a remarkable pace combined with sufficient consistency. This made him reach his best result in A1881 and placed him within the midfield fight in standings, to be able to possibly pick a track for next season.

Champion Haggisnt finished P5 in Alphatauri, after a reportedly rough day in office and was at least able to limit damage. He was followed by Selecta in McLaren who applied good sandbagging measures on Rollie throughout the weekday practices. Tbran in Alpine climbed up to P7 overcoming his quali ban with a strong performance. Keon in McLaren finished behind him, enjoying the battle with the DRS pack he was involved throughout the race. Tvoje finished P9 in Mercedes and his contribution made Mercedes the best team of the week, climbing up to P3 in WCC. Rollie paid the price of half-losing the car while behind the DRS pack in front, and had to settle for P10 in Alfa Romeo eventually. Dan in Alpine divided the Alfa Romeos, having a good bit of battling with Burtay and a good bit of avoiding Magnelman in different occasions, to be able to finish P11 and earn important points where his main rival Ibbo had retired… Burtay was once more the losing Alfa Romeo, promising to be the winning one next week on Singapore he picked himself… Magnelman finished P13 in Ferrari miles away from his teammate and ahead of the last driver alive on track, Kast in Aston Martin…

Inginne and Sir Ibbo both retired in pits to enjoy their eggplant dish in garage. We are heading to Singapore GP, a complete opposite track where the skill gaps between drivers will probably be much more striking to see in A1881 next week,…

You can find the stream of the race by Sir Ibbo after his retirement on L11 in the below link:

https://www.youtube.com/live/C8EnUgJTXvc?si=DV6OY0UeFf0x_pRw&t=3051

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