28 January, 2008

2008 GPL World Cup - Round 1

For the third time ever, there is a Grand Prix Legends World Cup, and this time I'm in it! The format is much the same as in any international tournament, with group stages before the elimiation rounds. Norway is in Group F together with the Czech Republic, Spain-3 and Québec. Now on to the race!

Track map

I qualified my BRM in 10th, a mere hundredth of a second ahead of the second BRM of Radek Petera from the Czech Republic. I was running comfortably in 9th, chasing Radek who had gotten ahead of me, until I spun off exiting the final corner on lap 4. This dropped me down to 15th, but I gradually worked my way back up to 10th until I spun off again in the same place on lap 20, losing one spot. I managed to re-take my position, and was catching the 9th placed Québec Ferrari towards the end, but the leader caught me and screwed everything up :p. The gap was 2 seconds at the line, compared with about 18 fifteen laps earlier.

The only BRM I didn't beat was Radek, who finished in 8th, but I reckon I could have finished ahead of him had it not been for mistakes early on in the race. In the end, though, Norway was the strongest team and I'm looking foreward to the next round :)