Moderator's Report
SUMMARY
An amazing race of attrition won by David Rainier after starting from last place on the grid. David drove a controlled race to be the only competitor to complete the distance on this tricky circuit. Several drivers thought they had the race in the bag until silly mistakes saw them lodged in the sticky hay bales. Eventually second place was claimed by Dean Logan who threw away a lead of over a lap just four laps from the finish. The final podium place was won by Phil Thornton who also threw away a more modest lead of forty four seconds but again only four laps from the finish. The moral of this race has to be the classic line, "To finish first, first you have to finish".
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Lap 1 - Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli - Ivan Djjodjjo and Phil Thornton
Ivan gets a bit of wheel spin on cold tyres and mounts the inside kerb damaging both offside wheels. Phil is following and slows down but he just clips Ivan's car as it slides sideways down the track. Despite taking to the air, Phil's car is undamaged but Ivan's car slews across the road to come to rest against the hay bales minus a couple of wheels.
Phil was able to slow down enough to avoid heavy contact with Ivan whilst not risking being rear ended by braking too hard. Neither driver did anything wrong and it was fortunate that this incident didn't precipitate a major pile up. Good driving from the rest of the field.
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Lap 1 - Viale Pier Andrea Mattioli - Fulvio Policardi and Andrew Livingston
The yellow flag is flying and Andrew slows down early as a precaution. Fulvio clips the kerb which unsettles the car and he can't apply the brakes quickly enough to avoid rear ending Andrew. Fulvio's car suffered terminal engine damage but Andrew continued apparently unaffected.
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Lap 7 - Finish Line - Natan Veksler, Podkrecony Ziutek and Andrew Livingstone
Natan clips a kerb and slews across the road into a tree. He bounces back into the path of Podkrecony and then into Andrew. All three cars are out of the race.
