NAEDANGERDAVID WINS TOUGH RACE AROUND LAS VEGAS WHILE ENDRU CLIMBS BACK ON TOP!
Las Vegas GP brought some late drama with David capitalising on the safety car in his Aston, while Endru claims unexpected second place in Mercedes, just a nose ahead of Mejg’s VisaRB…
Rian was on pole at race start
and his Aston pulled away together with Justin in McLaren, until the first
safety car appeared on Lap 14, after Bhavish’s retirement. This brought the other title contenders back into
the picture and second stint was breathtaking with 6 of them within DRS of each
other, after David, Rothnz, Endru and Mejg joined the duo of Rian and Justin.
David was right behind his leading teammate when Justin eggplanted himself once
more. He was the quicker of Astons in this last stint on soft tyres and he was
able to pull away when the last SC left track only 2 laps to go. This gave
David his second A1881 win, and a good shot on the title as we pass halfway
through the season:
David: Tough race around Las Vegas. Apart from a small error on T1 Lap
1, it was a very strong race from me. For 49 laps I showed really strong
consistency and I was able to use my aggressive, low DF setup to pull away on
the final lap after a late safety car. I think everyone who were able to finish
the race should consider themselves winners. On to the next one!
Endru followed David at finish
line, after a painful race for him where he got damage from T1 dive of David.
Mejg was almost about to get P2 despite serving a quali ban after his incident
with Endru last week, but had to yield just 0.024 behind him in Visa RB...
Rian had superior pace in first
stint and had benefited from the carnage behind him and pulled away, and he was
rightfully frustrated after the safety cars stole a possible win from his
hands. Nonetheless he kept himself in title fight and his team on top in WCC by
coming 4th. Dunce got good pace again and contributed his team to keep WCC
hopes alive for Visa RB, by coming 5th. Rollie had an eventful and distracted
race and was lucky to be brought back into the picture with safety cars, and
finished 6th, ahead of TarkanGino’s McLaren in P7. Rothnz was a disaster again,
suffering from becoming too slow, combined with being dirty, hitting Rollie in
last chicane and not even bothering giving position back… Luckily he also had
time penalties so he was classified P8. Gordini followed his countryman at P9
in Alpine, due to his time penalties. Sir Ibbo was the last driver alive on
track in his RedBull, but was classified as P10, ahead of Selecta who once more
had a nervousness DNF under pressure. He was still classified as 11th in his
Williams though, for completing %90 of the race.
Justin, Mirko, Tvoje and Bhavish
were all eggplanted. A1881 is heading to %100 length Qatar GP next Sunday!
You can find the stream of the
race commentated Ghost style in the below link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/eBnwoz_wRMA?si=0NLAHimcAjg_zNcg
