Alice Springs Race 3

11:12	F5KAliceSprings	We're back for the third and final race here in Alice Springs
11:12	F5KAliceSprings	Daniel Ricciardo has gone two from two so far this weekend
11:12	F5KAliceSprings	Can he complete the trifecta here today?
11:12	F5KAliceSprings	Or can Scotty Pye overhaul him and claim his second race win of the season?
11:12	F5KAliceSprings	20 other men and women on this grid will have a say about that
11:13	F5KAliceSprings	The lights come on
11:13	F5KAliceSprings	And we're away!
11:13	F5KAliceSprings	Belcher!
11:13	F5KAliceSprings	He makes a rocket start to be 2nd behind Ricciardo into turn 1
11:13	F5KAliceSprings	And he's going for the lead!
11:13	F5KAliceSprings	But he can't get it done
11:14	F5KAliceSprings	Stanaway and Lloyd are squabbling over 5th and 6th around the back of the circuit
11:14	F5KAliceSprings	And Mitch Evans is making light work of the midfield runners
11:14	F5KAliceSprings	Hes currently up to 8th, and wants 7th from Holdsworth
11:15	F5KAliceSprings	Ricciardo leads from Belcher, Pye, Premat and Stanaway
11:15	F5KAliceSprings	Premat has a look at Pye through turn 5, but can't make it stick
11:16	F5KAliceSprings	Michael Robertson is a man on a charge
11:16	F5KAliceSprings	From his middling grid position, he's now up to 11th ahead of Melrose
11:16	F5KAliceSprings	Holdsworth meanwhile has cleared Lloyd for 6th
11:16	F5KAliceSprings	Leaving the BRM driver to fend off Evans and Macklin
11:17	F5KAliceSprings	Evans takes 7th from Lloyd with minimal fus
11:17	F5KAliceSprings	As Robertson enters the top 10 at the expense of Muirhead
11:17	F5KAliceSprings	Holdsworth!
11:17	F5KAliceSprings	He spins through the esses and Robertson treads over his front wing trying to avoid him!
11:18	F5KAliceSprings	And Lloyd's now pointing the wrong way at the final corner
11:18	F5KAliceSprings	The winner of all that was Melrose
11:18	F5KAliceSprings	Who's emerged out of that in 9th place ahead of Heimgartner
11:19	F5KAliceSprings	As Evans takes 6th from Macklin
11:19	F5KAliceSprings	Premat meanwhile has cleared Pye somewhere around the lap
11:19	F5KAliceSprings	Leaving Pye to contend with Stanaway
11:19	F5KAliceSprings	Ricciardo's having none of this nonsense, as he already has an 8 second lead at the start of lap 5
11:20	F5KAliceSprings	Melrose!
11:20	F5KAliceSprings	His horrific debut weekend continues
11:20	F5KAliceSprings	As he's pointing the wrong way in the turn 1 runoff
11:21	F5KAliceSprings	Dave Simpson meanwhile is trying to make amends for all the points has has lost in this weekend to Evans
11:21	F5KAliceSprings	He's currently up to 9th ahead of Heimgartner
11:21	F5KAliceSprings	Teammate Stanaway meanwhile takes 4th from Pye
11:21	F5KAliceSprings	And we've got three wide down the front straight between Tan, McLaughlin and Bourne!
11:22	F5KAliceSprings	Scotty Mac seizes the means to nab 12th from Bourne
11:22	F5KAliceSprings	Premat's finally run out of patience with Belcher, taking 2nd from the lead STKR driver
11:22	F5KAliceSprings	As Scott Pye opens the pitstop cycle from 5th
11:23	F5KAliceSprings	He rejoins in 17th behind Gracie
11:23	F5KAliceSprings	Belcher has taken the best out of this set of tyres
11:23	F5KAliceSprings	As he's just lost another position to Stanaway, and is about to come under attack from Evans
11:25	MANTHEYWINSLOL	alonso staying on for his 4th stint
11:25	F5KAliceSprings	And that's a big off!
11:25	F5KAliceSprings	Major damage for Belcher and Stanaway at turn 2
11:26	F5KAliceSprings	And Scotty Pye's spun off around the back of the circuit as well
11:26	F5KAliceSprings	Macklin!
11:26	F5KAliceSprings	SimpsoN!
11:26	F5KAliceSprings	They've come together around the back of the circuit
11:27	F5KAliceSprings	Simpson's still got the engine running, but that's Mitch's day done
11:27	F5KAliceSprings	The order on lap 10 of 24 is now Ricciardo from Premat, Evans, Robertson and Heimgartner
11:28	F5KAliceSprings	Scott McLaughlin's up to 6th, but has Tan and Bourne behind him
11:28	F5KAliceSprings	The Triple Eight crew are getting ready for a stop
11:28	F5KAliceSprings	As Melrose comes in from 11th for AGI
11:29	F5KAliceSprings	Scotty Mac meanwhile is clearly struggling
11:29	F5KAliceSprings	Having just lost spots to Tan and Lee Rogers
11:29	F5KAliceSprings	And in comes Evans from third
11:29	rambert	Rebellion #3 in the garage
11:29	MANTHEYWINSLOL	yeah just seen that
11:30	MANTHEYWINSLOL	they were trying to soldier through it but yeah
11:30	F5KAliceSprings	We have a big train of cars behind Voeckler
11:30	MANTHEYWINSLOL	thats all the privateer lmp1s having some kinda problem then
11:30	F5KAliceSprings	Involving Holdsworth, Simpson, Melrose and Raghunathan
11:31	F5KAliceSprings	Melrose and Raghunathan have just stopped, and are eager to clear this mob
11:31	F5KAliceSprings	As Voeckler gets bullied to submission, losing four spots in one corner
11:31	F5KAliceSprings	Holdsworth!
11:31	F5KAliceSprings	He gets shoved with by Raghunathan!
11:31	F5KAliceSprings	And gets punted off by Simpson!
11:31	rambert	the Toyotas are the only P1s relatively unscathed atm...
11:31	F5KAliceSprings	And that's Lee's day done!
11:32	rambert	disregarding the #8's stop-go
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11:32	F5KAliceSprings	Ricciardo meanwhile is showing just why he's a former world champion
11:32	kevinbotz	Well.
11:32	F5KAliceSprings	With an 18 second lead over Premat on lap 13
11:32	F5KAliceSprings	Rogers comes in from 7th
11:32	MANTHEYWINSLOL	sup kevin
11:32	kevinbotz	Got rear-ended on the I-5, today. :L
11:33	F5KAliceSprings	Oh noes
11:33	F5KAliceSprings	Is the Corolla kill?
11:33	MANTHEYWINSLOL	alonso's got the lead down to 1 minute
11:33	rambert	oh shit :L
11:33	MANTHEYWINSLOL	oh geez
11:33	MANTHEYWINSLOL	you ok?
11:33	kevinbotz	Yeah.
11:33	MANTHEYWINSLOL	thats good then
11:33	F5KAliceSprings	I mean, if he wasn't, I'd imagine he'd have better things to do than be on here Sally
11:33	kevinbotz	The rear of the Outback's pretty much been completely caved in.
11:34	F5KAliceSprings	Oh, so it wasn't the deathtrap Corolla?
11:34	rambert	the Outback got asspacked?
11:34	kevinbotz	I'd probably be dead if it was the deathtrap Corolla.
11:34	F5KAliceSprings	Yeah, fair point
11:34	kevinbotz	It was a 40 MPH impact. :L
11:34	F5KAliceSprings	Jesus
11:34	F5KAliceSprings	What the fuck was that clown doing? :L
11:34	rambert	jfc
11:34	rambert	not fucking paying attention to traffic slowing down, most likely :L
11:35	kevinbotz	Concertina effect; the octogenarian in the Odyssey behind simply didn't react quickly enough.
11:35	F5KAliceSprings	Meanwhile, Alex Premat comes in for his stop from 2nd
11:35	kevinbotz	Plowed into the back of the Odyssey, and managed to push us into the Ford Edge in front.
11:35	F5KAliceSprings	Nesia are getting ready for a stop as well
11:35	F5KAliceSprings	And they bring in Heimgartner from 5th
11:36	rambert	ow ow ow, that's fucking bad
11:36	F5KAliceSprings	Gracie knocks the front wing of her car in the runoff somewhere
11:36	F5KAliceSprings	And in comes Ricciardo from the lead
11:37	MANTHEYWINSLOL	#3 rebellon back out on track
11:37	rambert	Gap's < 1 minute
11:37	F5KAliceSprings	He rejoins in the lead just ahead of Evans
11:37	kevinbotz	The universal constant remains true; people can't fucking drive.
11:37	F5KAliceSprings	The order is Ricciardo, Evans, Robertson, Premat and Tan
11:37	F5KAliceSprings	Robertson and Tan are yet to stop however
11:37	MANTHEYWINSLOL	briscoes lost 5th place i see
11:38	rambert	took long enough
11:38	F5KAliceSprings	Heimgartner on fresh rubber is flying, and he wants 6th from Lloyd
11:38	F5KAliceSprings	As Renee Gracie's back to making sandcastles in the runoff
11:38	F5KAliceSprings	And in comes Robertson from third
11:39	F5KAliceSprings	He rejoins in 4th
11:39	F5KAliceSprings	Dave Simpson is having a miserable weekend thus far
11:40	MANTHEYWINSLOL	92 is now nearly 2 minutes up on the 91
11:40	F5KAliceSprings	And it's not getting any easier, as he pits from 14th
11:40	MANTHEYWINSLOL	45 seconds from the 91 to the 68
11:40	MANTHEYWINSLOL	so gaps arent changing much in gte pro
11:40	F5KAliceSprings	And that's the other Nissan off in the runoff somewhere
11:40	rambert	meanwhile Alonso just took another 3 seconds out of the lead
11:41	F5KAliceSprings	As Bourne loses 9th to Muirhead
11:41	MANTHEYWINSLOL	55 seconds
11:41	rambert	wtf
11:41	MANTHEYWINSLOL	its on :L
11:42	F5KAliceSprings	And we now have the two BRMs squabbling for 6th
11:42	MANTHEYWINSLOL	JEV's just set the fastest lap the 26 has run
11:42	F5KAliceSprings	Lloyd is currently ahead
11:42	F5KAliceSprings	But Rogers has far fresher tyres behind him
11:42	F5KAliceSprings	And that's Adelaide Voeckler in the runoff again
11:42	F5KAliceSprings	Robertson!
11:43	F5KAliceSprings	He's off at the esses and will drop a bunch of spots here!
11:43	F5KAliceSprings	He's beached it on the kerb!
11:44	F5KAliceSprings	And Bourne's had a wheel fall off his wagon while running in 7th!
11:45	F5KAliceSprings	We now have Muirhead and Melrose battling over that spot
11:45	F5KAliceSprings	Which Muirhead takes with relative ease
11:45	F5KAliceSprings	Tan fancies a crack at the Motorsport Projects car, and takes 8th from Muirhead
11:45	F5KAliceSprings	And look at this
11:46	F5KAliceSprings	Tan fancies a crack at Melrose!
11:46	F5KAliceSprings	He has a look around the outside into 9!
11:46	F5KAliceSprings	Melrose holds on through 9 and 10 onto the front straight
11:46	F5KAliceSprings	Tan has the tow and goes around the outside of the former world champion!
11:46	F5KAliceSprings	We now cut to Simpson and Pye battling for 12th place
11:47	F5KAliceSprings	With Evans behind them wanting to lap the pair
11:47	F5KAliceSprings	Simpson gets the job done with a serious 'don't argue' move through turn 2
11:48	F5KAliceSprings	Ricciardo meanwhile is continuing to put on a clinic
11:48	F5KAliceSprings	He's got two laps to go, he has a 21 second lead over Evans
11:48	F5KAliceSprings	And is about to put Melrose a lap down
11:48	F5KAliceSprings	Tan is absolutely flying!
11:48	F5KAliceSprings	He's got another position, this time P6 from Lloyd
11:49	F5KAliceSprings	Can he get Lee Rogers before the end of this race?
11:49	F5KAliceSprings	Daniel Ricciardo is now on his final lap
11:49	F5KAliceSprings	He's had a torrid few years in Formula One
11:50	F5KAliceSprings	But he said this weekend he has finally found his mojo again in the Formula 5000 cars
11:50	F5KAliceSprings	He's gone two from two so far
11:50	MANTHEYWINSLOL	 he'll find it even more at the indy 500
11:50	F5KAliceSprings	And Tan's all over Rogers for 5th!
11:51	F5KAliceSprings	As Daniel Ricciardo crosses the line to complete the clean sweep of Alice Springs!
11:51	F5KAliceSprings	Mitch Evans crosses the line in second position to further extend his lead
11:51	F5KAliceSprings	TAN!
11:51	F5KAliceSprings	He's cleared Rogers for 5th!
11:51	F5KAliceSprings	As Alex Premat completes the podium in 3rd position
11:52	F5KAliceSprings	Andre Heimgartner and Weiron Tan complete the top 5
11:52	F5KAliceSprings	With Lee Rogers, Jordan Lloyd, Daniel Melrose, John Muirhead and Scott McLaughlin rounding out the top 10
11:52	F5KAliceSprings	Dave Simpson will finish 11th with a final lap move on Raghunathan