JORDAN’S HOT STREAK CONTINUES AT IMOLA WHILE BOBOW EXTENDS WDC LEAD

Jordan continued his stunning mid-season run at Imola, beating Bobow and Mejg for the second consecutive week and securing a fourth straight victory, while Bobow’s consistency was enough to further strengthen his championship lead...


The podium trio once again controlled the race from the front. Jordan delivered a brilliant 1:14.426 in qualifying to narrowly deny Bobow pole, once again showing his comfort at Imola, the same circuit where he last won back in Season 21, also driving for VisaRB.

At the start, the top six immediately locked into an intense DRS train, running nose-to-tail for the opening five laps. Rollie initially held himself in the fight before accidentally leaving his ERS deployment on none.💩 Making him first in Top 6 to lose touch with the leaders just as the race began to settle into strategy mode.

Rankupwithme also started strongly on his first weekend as Kick Sauber’s new full-time driver after replacing NaeDangerDavid, but gradually lost pace while adapting to the car known as the green tractor.

The race changed on lap 7 when Keon’s Haas AI unexpectedly introduced itself to the pit wall concrete, bringing out the safety car with 25 laps still remaining. That immediately forced the field into difficult tyre decisions. Most frontrunners, including Jordan and Bobow, switched onto hard tyres hoping to make it to the finish.

From there, the race became a strategic mirror of Spain. Jordan and Bobow stayed glued to each other through DRS for lap after lap, both carefully managing tyres while waiting for the decisive moment. Eventually, Jordan judged it perfectly, saving just enough rubber to execute the move that secured his fourth consecutive victory.

Mejg tried to shake things up with a two-stop strategy in the Haas, but despite showing strong pace it ultimately wasn’t enough to challenge the leading pair. Still, third place moved him into second in the championship after Justin suffered a major setback by missing the race due to technical problems.

SV5 delivered another eye-catching recovery for Alpine, climbing from seventeenth to fourth despite carrying a qualifying ban into the weekend, on the track of his own pick. Once again, he finished ahead of Rollie despite having a Q ban. Rollie may need to escalate from qualifying bans to race bans if he ever wants to consistently finish ahead of his Alpine rival again. With SV5's next penalty threshold is 45 points which brings a race ban, it's not impossible, he's on it.

Bards followed closely behind in sixth after attempting an aggressive two-stop strategy in the Alpine. Much like their weekday practice sessions together had hinted, he appeared way faster than Rollie in the closing laps and likely only needed one more lap to complete the overtake.

Energetic continued his recent rise in form with another strong Aston Martin drive to seventh. His late-race pace was impressive enough that he too looked capable of challenging higher positions had the race continued slightly longer.

Rankupwithme eventually finished eighth after being the only frontrunner to take a second set of mediums during the safety car period. The strategy looked promising on paper, but traffic and adaptation issues prevented the Sauber driver from fully capitalizing.

Tvoje secured ninth for Red Bull with another steady performance, while Selecta legend completed the top ten in the Ferrari despite requiring three stops at Tifosi home soil.

Further back, Scaparro quietly recovered from the rear of the grid to eleventh for McLaren, while rothNz endured an eventful afternoon after a controversial Turn 1 incident involving Javinwain. Luca finished thirteenth in the Ferrari wildcarding Dunce, ahead of Yeshurrun, whose race reportedly included several incidents already under FIA review.

Crunchypancake once again struggled near the back in the McLaren, Elche had another difficult evening for Red Bull, and Sir Ibbo persisted to the finish in the Kick Sauber. Javinwain eventually retired the Williams in the pits following his earlier incident-filled race, while Keon’s early crash left Haas without a second scorer on a weekend where they needed it most.

With four wins in a row, Jordan is currently the most feared drivers on the grid, but it is Bobow who quietly continues to control the championship through relentless consistency.

Jordan inteview: “Hahah yeah not much to add, qualifying went okay, wasn’t happy with the lap but it was enough for P1 just about. Then I was saving tyres for 30 laps because the race became a carbon copy of Spain. Thankfully I saved a bit better than my rival and timed my overtake well to get the win.”

You can find the stream of the race with Ironghost commentary in the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/live/5Y8B5I1nRkA?si=qni-uiS8ed37yTFf&t=2350

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