Round 15 - Japan (Suzuka) | ||||||
ACE SERIES | ||||||
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At the front, Jan was able to keep the pace set by Michal - in fact, he was actually faster if we can trust the timing data: Jan lost an average of 10 seconds on each of his three pit stops and the laps before and after. However, it did not impress him very much that he soon lost the lead that he gained in lap 39, when both made their last pit stops four laps later. He stuck closely to the Digitech in front even when Michal drove a fastest lap of 1:27, and Jan eventually took the lead when Michal made one of his very rare errors in the very last lap of the race.
Pos | Car | Driver | Fastest Lap | LL/TL | Pitstops | Avg. Grip | Tyre Usage | ||||
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Time | Lap # | Stops | Avg. Length | B | C | D | |||||
1. | 21 | J.Svehlik | 1:28.120 | 49 | 14/53 | 3 | 0:22.225 | 92 | 29 | 24 | |
2. | 2 | M.Janak | 1:27.888 | 47 | 33/53 | 3 | 0:12.925 | 92 | 43 | 10 | |
3. | 1 | O.Roberts | 1:29.124 | 53 | 0/53 | 3 | 0:13.996 | 92 | 42 | 11 | |
4. | 36 | S.Diener | 1:28.541 | 52 | 0/53 | 3 | 0:15.859 | 92 | 45 | 8 | |
5. | 40 | M.Patzenbein | 1:28.541 | 48 | 6/53 | 3 | 0:23.643 | 92 | 40 | 13 | |
6. | 45 | M.Saupe | 1:27.642 | 47 | 0/53 | 3 | 0:14.430 | 92 | 30 | 23 | |
7. | 8 | A.Bruns | 1:28.925 | 51 | 0/53 | 4 | 0:16.335 | 93 | 26 | 27 | |
8. | 13 | N.Maltez | 1:29.983 | 50 | 0/53 | 3 | 0:17.764 | 92 | 43 | 10 | |
9. | 7 | M.Kruggel | 1:29.457 | 49 | 0/53 | 4 | 0:18.366 | 93 | 26 | 27 | |
10. | 14 | R.Schatzer | 1:29.526 | 48 | 0/53 | 4 | 0:25.817 | 92 | 53 | ||
11. | 39 | M.Devine | 1:29.790 | 51 | 0/53 | 2 | 0:23.207 | 90 | 23 | 30 | |
12. | 16 | H.Mehl | 1:31.972 | 51 | 0/53 | 3 | 0:32.111 | 92 | 28 | 25 | |
13. | 47 | F.Alvarez | 1:30.576 | 53 | 0/53 | 4 | 0:28.855 | 93 | 40 | 13 | |
14. | 20 | A.Long | 1:31.925 | 42 | 0/53 | 4 | 0:37.824 | 92 | 13 | 40 | |
15. | 24 | I.G.Cuadrado | 1:29.526 | 46 | 0/46 | 4 | 0:30.913 | 93 | 37 | 9 | |
16. | 6 | S.Dryden | 1:31.727 | 40 | 0/41 | 3 | 0:28.670 | 92 | 41 | ||
17. | 38 | M.McCubbin | 1:32.705 | 37 | 0/37 | 2 | 0:36.962 | 91 | 37 | ||
18. | 5 | A.Strang | 1:33.495 | 21 | 0/22 | 1 | 0:26.128 | 92 | 22 | ||
19. | 31 | R.Ziarnik | 1:35.598 | 9 | 0/17 | 0 | 91 | 17 | |||
20. | 15 | A.Maistralis | 1:38.624 | 5 | 0/12 | 0 | 92 | 12 | |||
21. | 37 | J.Stead | 1:43.164 | 2 | 0/ 2 | 0 | 95 | 2 |
"I like to recommend Fernando Alvarez' replay for an example of brilliant overtaking (well, in my point of view, anyway). That's how it should happen and I point that out because I saw some incidents in replays of the last couple of rounds where drivers used CCs as "bumpers". After all that's quite close to intentionally driving into a CC and as you all should know, that's against the rules. So, be calm, be patient and be precise :-)"
"...what I send you is another showing me passing two cars in the long left turn after the first two turns. As you will see a pass with mathematical precision. Best viewed in Tarso Marques car."
"One lap before my last pitstop, there are yellow flags out, I slow down a little bit for a CC, see a green flag on the right and start to overtake. But suddenly I see more yellow flags and more trouble..."
"...although I never crashed hard enough to damage my car, there were some scary moments in the race, like on lap 24, in a not very wise overtake. Verstappen's car and mine touched, I lost control but managed to get back safely on track (see the replay)."
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