The
2010 Sunday Night XRT League kicked off last night at South City Chicane Route with eleven of the 15 registered drivers showing up to make a run at winning round one. Qualifying on the pole was
[SR]Turbofreak, with a blistering lap, followed by
sa|monstor and
sa|pik_d rounding out the top three.
The race started off clean, with
Turbofreak taking the lead, followed by team
Something Awful and two of the
Clockworks Motorsports guys. Some contact between
[SR]Turkey and the wall by
[AW]48Lowes caused a bottleneck going into the first chicane, leaving
#00**Lizardfolk and
[SR]Boothy with nowhere to go, and
cracky narrowly missing the two of them as they recovered. Both cars had serious damage, but were able to continue. By lap 4
Turbo had a four second lead, showing everyone how it should be done, and some unfortunate contact between
cracky and
Boothy in turn one causing
Boothy to call it quits early. A few made early pitstops, hoping for clear track and clean laps, while the leaders raced on ahead. An unfortunate timeout by
[AW]48Lowes on lap seven left the field to nine competitors.
Lap 10 saw
#13**Z.Wiess make a run at
sa|pik_d, with both drivers pushing harder catching
sa|monstor. At the end of lap ten
Z.Wiess made his mandatory pitstop, giving team
sa clear track behind them.
Lap 13 brings on a pit by the leader, but with a thirteen second lead, he was sitting comfortably in third upon return to the track, with both members of
Something Awful racing still needing to pit.
Further back in the field,
RSR.haVoc moves up into 5th spot, running close with
#00**J.Oliviera from
Clockwork. Also competing in the race were
Lizardfolk and
[SR]Turkey, who made his prerequisite post-race announcement about the upcoming
[SR] Hotlap League, encouraging everyone to participate. Check out
www.sonicrealmsracing.co.uk for more information.
Turbofreak reassumed the lead after pitstops were completed, and went on to finish 23 seconds ahead of second place
monstor, followed by
pik_d.
Z.Wiess gives
Clockworks Motorsports a fourth place finish, with
RSR.haVoc rounding out the top five.
Race stats can be viewed
here.
In all it was a good race, with a few signups late or missing. Round two is in two weeks at the loved
and hated Kyoto Oval. Practice can be done at the 2010 SNXL server, signup information can be had at
www.levelsystem.info .