LGPS 1992 Austrian GP Commentary

20:25	Salamander	its an all dutchman front row
20:25	Salamander
20:25	pi3141	16th and 18th, that's ok. Hopefully both cars survive the usual midfield chaos without losing wings.
20:26	Dark77	Benelux 1-2-3
20:26	Salamander	indeed
20:26	Salamander	hopefully now jan will get his long awaited first lgps win
20:30	Nuppiz	so, stllaers?
20:30	Nuppiz	stallers
20:31	pi3141	two
20:31	Rated	three
20:32	Nuppiz	dingdingding, Rated was right!
20:33	pi3141	Who?
20:34	Nuppiz	Pearson, Anker and Generic
20:35	Nuppiz	Anker's stall causes a pileup where Richardson and Blog lose both wings, while Baker and Alianopoulos lose their front wings
20:35	Salamander	apostolos
20:35	Rated	Meh
20:35	Nuppiz	hey, at least he's still in the race
20:36	Rated	But he's stuck in these incidents too often
20:36	Salamander	true
20:39	Nuppiz	both EuroBrums out during the first lap, ouch
20:39	Nuppiz	and Greenwood is on the side of the road
20:40	Rated	Damn, already 6 cars out
20:40	Nuppiz	looks like a suspension failure
20:42	Nuppiz	and Arthurs spins!
20:43	Nuppiz	he's out from the race!
20:45	Salamander	whats the order at the front, any changes?
20:45	Nuppiz	Jericho is smoking!
20:46	Nuppiz	Donnelly tries to overtake him and OOOH!
20:46	Nuppiz	he hits the kerbs too hard and spins, losing two positions
20:47	Salamander	donnelly you fat idiot
20:48	Nuppiz	Top 10: Kickert-VDM-Van Dycke-Graham-Von Gottorp-Roberts-Ramone-Braggia-Howard-Balivernes
20:48	pi3141	Balivernes already in the top ten!
20:48	Salamander	good enough for now i suppose
20:49	Salamander	at least vdm hasnt lost any positions
20:49	Nuppiz	and Roberts is out, looks like he has crashed!
20:50	Nuppiz	Brake failure in Boschkurve
20:50	Salamander	oh dear
20:50	Salamander	is he okay?
20:50	Nuppiz	yeah
20:51	Nuppiz	just nudged the inner wall to lose his front wing, but not a bad crash
20:53	Nuppiz	CRASHUUU
20:53	Nuppiz	AND MORE
20:54	pi3141	doesn't sound good
20:55	Salamander	who is it?
20:55	Nuppiz	Jericho's engine fails in front of Gaera, who loses his front wing in the ensuing collision
20:55	Nuppiz	he then slows down to enter the pits way too early and gets rear-ended by Sunset
20:56	Nuppiz	end result: Gaera out missing both wings, Sunset limping without a front wing
21:00	Nuppiz	Sunset pits and is now 18th and last, just lapped by Kickert ANDBALIVERNESISSMOKING
21:01	Rated	Well...
21:03	Salamander	so thats how many cars out?
21:03	Salamander	in how many laps?
21:03	Nuppiz	10, with Balivernes soon vecoming the 11th retirement
21:03	Nuppiz	becoming*
21:03	Nuppiz	the leaders have soon completed 10 laps out of 26
21:04	pi3141	In which position is Mazzacane?
21:04	Nuppiz	13th
21:06	Nuppiz	and there goes Balivernes' engine
21:08	Salamander	whats the gap between kickert and vdm>
21:08	Salamander	?
21:08	Nuppiz	3.150
21:09	Nuppiz	yellow flags are out in the first sector... it's Baker!
21:09	Nuppiz	his engine has blown up!
21:10	Nuppiz	and Koumettou is there as well!
21:11	Nuppiz	Koumettou's brakes fail first, then Baker comes from the behind and his engine blows up
21:12	Rated	#THISISZAUGGSRACE
21:13		*** Backmarker joined #F1rejects
21:13	Dark77	#ThisShouldveBeenNicchisRace
21:14	Nuppiz	and Kickert is on the side of the road!
21:15	Nuppiz	he's becoming the next James Davies at this rate
21:15	Rated	Maybe after the Swiss superprix, Nicchi will be able to score points
21:16	Nuppiz	van der Maeyede leads!
21:16	Rated	And nothing happened to Van Dycke yet
21:18	Dark77	i hope...
21:20	Salamander	please dont break down, vdm's car...
21:20	Nuppiz	Howard and Jong-Sung out!
21:20	Rated	Oh
21:21	Nuppiz	lol
21:21	Nuppiz	consecutive brake failures in the same corner within 10 seconds of each other
21:22	Rated	lol
21:22	Nuppiz	Ramone suffers an engine failure
21:22	Salamander	what a coincidence
21:23	Nuppiz	both Rockets to Russia cars out within the space of one lap
21:23	Salamander	good news for the championship then
21:23	Salamander	hopefully somebody can close down on howard now
21:24	Rated	17 retirements if I'm not mistaken
21:24	Salamander	whats the order at the front now?
21:25	Nuppiz	VDM-Van Dycke-Graham-Von Gottorp-Braggia-Donnelly-Gomes-Mazzacane-Zaugg-Alianopoulos-Sunset
21:26	Nuppiz	there's all of the remaining cars
21:26	Salamander	gomes is doing fairly decently for once
21:27	Nuppiz	OH! OH!
21:27	Rated	VDM ?
21:27	Rated	Van Dycke ?
21:27	Salamander	hes out isnt he
21:29	Nuppiz	Mazzacane's crashes at Boschkurve, and his car is stranded in the middle of the track
21:29	Rated	oh wow
21:29	Salamander	oh dear
21:29	Nuppiz	soon after VDM comes in and crashes into Mazzacane, losing his front wing
21:29	Salamander	DAMMIT
21:29	Salamander	WHY
21:30	Salamander	ill never win another one of these
21:31	Rated	I have yet to score a better result than fourth
21:31	Nuppiz	VDM pits and drops down to 5th
21:32	pi3141	Is Mazzacane ok?
21:32	Nuppiz	so the order is now Van Dycke-Graham-Von Gottorp-Braggia-VDM-Donnelly-Gomes-Zaugg-Alianopoulos-Sunset
21:32	Nuppiz	pi3141, yes
21:34	Nuppiz	Donnelly out!
21:34	Rated	Salamander uses rage. It's really effective !
21:34	Nuppiz	looks like a suspension collapse
21:35	Salamander	oh ffs
21:36	Nuppiz	and moments later Van Der Maeyede follows suit!
21:36	Salamander	oh come on
21:36	Salamander	what
21:36	Nuppiz	apparently he suffered more damage in the collision than what first seemed
21:36	Salamander	my cars are the most unreliable crap ever
21:37	Salamander	i think every other team has a better finishing record than me
21:37	Rated	So... Zaugg will be soon running in 6th. Last time it happened, she retired on the last lap.
21:37	Salamander	at least, every one that qualifies regularly
21:37	Salamander	gomes is 5th now
21:38	Salamander	watch her car fall apart meters from the finish
21:38	Rated	VDM has completed 43 laps before the Austrian GP
21:38	Rated	Gomes 104
21:38	Nuppiz	VDM retired on lap 20
21:38	Rated	Donnelly 72
21:38	Nuppiz	so that makes it 62 in total
21:39	Nuppiz	Donnelly retired just a lap earlier
21:39	Nuppiz	Team Ace of Clubs is looking at a good points haul again
21:41	Nuppiz	four laps to go
21:42	Nuppiz	Rated you seem to have clairvoyant skills
21:42	Nuppiz	Zaugg's car is smoking
21:42	Rated	:|
21:43	Nuppiz	and she gets hit by Alianopoulos as her car grinds to a halt
21:44	Nuppiz	resulting in the Greek losing his front wing
21:44	Nuppiz	seven cars remaining
21:46	Nuppiz	penultimate lap
21:47	Rated	No comment.
21:48	Nuppiz	and van Dycke starts the last lap
21:50	Nuppiz	and he wins the 1992 Life Austrian Grand Prix!
21:50	Nuppiz	Rachel Graham comes home second, 5.991s behind
21:51	Nuppiz	Leonhad von Gottorp is third, +16.474s
21:51	Nuppiz	Leonhard*
21:51	Nuppiz	Jose Braggia is fourth, +35.636s
21:52	Salamander	thats 2 races in a row vdm shouldve won
21:52	Salamander	if it wasnt for bloody mazzacane leaving his car in the middle of the road :?
21:52	Salamander
21:53	pi3141	Was Mazzacane's retirement caused by a mechanical failure or by a driving error?
21:53	Nuppiz	Evelyn Gomes is fifth, Vic Sunset sixth, and Apostolos Alianopoulos is handed the Golden Pineapple in 7th
21:54	Nuppiz	pi3141, brake failure
21:56		*** Klon joined #F1rejects
21:56	FMecha_F1R	Who leads?
21:56	Nuppiz	van Dycke won
21:56	Salamander	van dycke just won
21:56	Salamander	the race is over
21:57	FMecha_F1R	oops
21:57	Klon	booo
21:57	FMecha_F1R	Results?
21:58	Nuppiz	21:50 Nuppiz	Rachel Graham comes home second, 5.991s behind 21:51 Nuppiz	Leonhad von Gottorp is third, +16.474s 21:51 Nuppiz	Leonhard* 21:51 Nuppiz	Jose Braggia is fourth, +35.636s
21:58	Klon	yay
21:58	Nuppiz	Evelyn Gomes is fifth, Vic Sunset sixth, and Apostolos Alianopoulos is handed the Golden Pineapple in 7th
21:58	pi3141	van Dycke - Graham - von Gottorp - Braggia - Gomes - Sunset - Alianopoulos, everyone else retired.
21:58	Klon	4 points
21:58	Klon	those might come in handy
22:02	Nuppiz	Fastest lap: Pieter Kickert, 1:34.166 on lap 5
22:03	Nuppiz	ROTR: Joe Gaera, for a rejectful pit entry that forced him to retire and almost ruined Sunset's race