Round 1 - USA (Phoenix)

Qualifying Race Report

Qualifying

  1. Grant Reeve		Nightmare on Pit Lane	1m13.929
  2. Rene Smit			Nightmare on Pit Lane	1m13.945
  3. David Pennington		Penlight Renault	1m14.272
  4. Robert Romanowski		BMS Racing		1m14.290
  5. Robert Schaftlein		Red Five Renault	1m14.421
  6. Reinhold Schatzer					1m14.423
  7. Robert Houghton		Wreckage Inc		1m14.432
  8. Oliver Roberts		Digitech		1m14.609
  9. Tero Savolainen		Ural Ravers		1m14.676
 10. Hans Gunnar Hansen		Virtual Trundle		1m14.786 
 11. Luigi Pasciuto		Italcar			1m15.242
 12. Thomas Guenther		Tonga Racing		1m15.279
 13. Stephen Orr		Ant Hill Mob		1m15.416
 14. Alan Strang		Digitech		1m15.425
 15. David Wright		Team Blizzard		1m15.441
 16. Uwe Schuerkamp		BMS Racing		1m15.464
 17. Chris Bush						1m15.565
 18. Jason Hess			Red Five Renault	1m15.570
 19. David Shaw 		Wreckage Inc.		1m15.710
 20. Niko Jukarainen		Penlight Renault	1m15.768
 21. Anthony Long		Wartburger Rennpappe	1m15.919
 22. Axel Bruns			Wartburger Rennpappe	1m15.949
     Markus Kruggel		Wild 13			1m15.949
 24. Antonio Lodia		Italcar			1m16.015
 25. Robert Gustavsson					1m16.021
 26. Eric Pilote		Creasim			1m16.165
 27. Michal Janak		Magia-Chrysler		1m16.185
 28. Paul Venkatesh		Carnage Crew		1m16.187
 29. James Smith		Team Blitz		1m16.214
 30. Andrew Clark		Ant Hill Mob		1m16.216
 31. Ste Hawkes			Virtual Trundle		1m16.238
 32. Mr Tom			Taxipower		1m16.250
 33. Paul Robins		Stephenson Rocket	1m16.280
 34. Nuno Maltez					1m16.432
 35. Alisdair Walker					1m16.444
 36. Michael Janzen		Wild 13			1m16.460
 37. Michael Askin		Zippy-Volvo		1m16.472
 38. Paul French		The Spacemen		1m16.560
 39. Peter Daas			Sunny Coupe		1m17.139
 40. Andrew Middleton					1m17.649
 41. Radovan 'Raduz' Drazny	AAtRV			1m18.091
 42. Shawn Falzarano					1m18.108
 43. Michal 'Snake' Hofman	AAtRV			1m18.508
 44. Stephen Keegan					1m19.040

Race - 81 Laps

  1. Oliver Roberts		Digitech		1h49m49.284	20
  2. Tero Savolainen		Ural Ravers		1h50m33.145	16
  3. Grant Reeve		Nightmare on Pit Lane	1h50m39.044	12+1
  4. David Pennington		Penlight Renault	1h50m48.514	10
  5. Reinhold Schatzer					1h50m56.062	 8
  6. Alan Strang		Digitech		1h51m09.829	 6
  7. David Wright		Team Blizzard		1h51m16.441	 4
  8. Jason Hess			Red Five Renault	1h51m18.125	 3
  9. Rob Houghton		Wreckage Inc		1h51m20.901	 2
 10. Hans Gunnar Hansen		Virtual Trundle		1h51m25.302	 1

 11. Andrew Clark		Ant Hill Mob		1h51m40.041
 12. Pedro Celli		Senna Team		1h51m53.127
 13. Stephen Orr		Ant Hill Mob		1h51m55.363
 14. Robert Gustavsson					1h52m09.452
 15. Thomas Guenther		Tonga Racing		1h52m13.591
 16. Niko Jukarainen		Penlight Renault	1h52m16.683
 17. Anthony Long		Wartburger Rennpappe	1h52m18.540
 18. Robert Romanowski		BMS Racing		1h52m20.863
 19. Axel Bruns			Wartburger Rennpappe	1h52m28.405
 20. Luigi Pasciuto		Italcar			1h52m32.801
 21. Alisdair Walker					1h52m43.816
 22. David Shaw			Wreckage Inc.		1h52m47.296
 23. Michael Askin		Zippy-Volvo		1h52m59.075
 24. Markus Kruggel		Wild 13			1h53m05.686
 25. Mr Tom			Taxipower		1h53m26.341
 26. Nuno Maltez					1h53m26.437
 27. Paul Venkatesh		Carnage Crew		1h53m28.729
 28. Michal Janak		Magia-Chrysler		1h53m46.690
 29. Andrew Middleton		Carnage Crew		1h54m16.513
 30. Uwe Schuerkamp		BMS Racing		1h54m35.654
 31. Paul French		The Spacemen		1h54m50.538
 32. Peter Daas			Sunny Coup		  -1 lap
 33. Martin Millward		Ural Ravers		  67 laps
 34. Robert Schaftlein		Red Five Renault	  57 laps
 35. Rene Smit			Nightmare on Pit Lane	  47 laps
 36. James Smith		Team Blitz		  29 laps
 37. Michal 'Snake' Hofman	AAtRV			  24 laps
 38. Paul Robins		Stephenson Rocket	  21 laps
 39. Michael Janzen		Wild 13			  17 laps
 40. Radovan 'Raduz' Drazny	AAtRV			  14 laps
 41. Eric Pilote		Creasim			  10 laps
 42. Stephen Keegan					   6 laps
 43. Antonio Lodia		Italcar			   DNF
A new season and lots of new faces. Welcome to everyone who's new to the championship this year.

The Nightmare on Pit Lane team looked set to make a running start to this year's championship after dominating the qualifying session. However, the domination of the old Omega Fusion team was short lived. Having tried to overtake 3 back markers at the end of the main straight, Rene Smit scraped the wall and couldn't make the pass. Anxious not to lose more time he attempted again on the next corner, but broke too late, and became another victim of the concrete walls at Phoenix. Both on an interesting 4 stop D tyre strategy, Grant Reeve continued as the lone NoPL competitor, but was unfortunate to lose a possible win after being caught up in a pit entrance accident. Needing a new front wing he risked reversing into and down the pit lane to save time, and a stylish hand-brake turn momentarily threated the lives of his pit crew. Such antics saved lots of time, but the event still cost him over a minute.

Robert Schaftlein was another top contender to make a bad start this year, being caught up in another pit lane incident. This time Robert had tried to squeeze down the inside of some slow cars to get to the pit lane, but found one of them dive for the pits at the the same time and it removed him from the race. David Pennington was more true to form, but appeared to be over-driving and a spin in lap 78 may have reduced his possible finishing position. Also worth a mention are top newcomers Tero Savolainen and Reinhold Schatzer. It's tough at the top, and these guys are straight into the first race with good finishes. The Ant Hill Mob are also new, and already poised for success. Definitely people to watch....

Last modified: Fri Dec 1 15:31:05 1995