Sepang 2019 Race 1

14:40	F5KSepang	Hello and welcome to the first ever night race here at Sepang
14:40	F5KSepang	The rain has been coming down since Qualifying, where it was an all PRA affair
14:40		*** Normal32 is now known as T88
14:40		--- T88 is back
14:40	F5KSepang	Dave Simpson ended up on pole by over a second from Richie Stanaway
14:41	F5KSepang	Scott McLaughlin starts third ahead of the returning Alex Premat, with Scott Pye rounding out the top five
14:41	F5KSepang	Mitch Evans will start 9th, but he has been the form man in the series, having won seven of the last eight races
14:41	F5KSepang	Will he add to his tally here tonight?
14:41	F5KSepang	Let's find out
14:42	T88	*GP4 crashes shortly after*
14:42	F5KSepang	The lights come on
14:42	F5KSepang	And we're away!
14:42	F5KSepang	Simpson gets a good start
14:42	F5KSepang	But Premat gets a blinder!
14:42	F5KSepang	But he has nowhere to go, allowing Pye to move up into 3rd
14:43	F5KSepang	Holdsworth gets a run on Pye into turn 4 and takes the position from him!
14:43	F5KSepang	Scotty Mac's had a terrible opening lap, and is already down into 8th position
14:44	F5KSepang	Chaos in the midfield!
14:44	F5KSepang	We've got four cars off in the turn 7 gravel trap!
14:44	F5KSepang	Belcher, Tan, Heimgartner and Watson are all off making sandcastles
14:45	F5KSepang	The two Prodrive cars are off into the distance already
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14:45	F5KSepang	As Pye takes third back from Heimgartner at the final hairpin
14:46	F5KSepang	The order at the end of lap 1 is Simpson, Stanaway, Pye, Holdsworth and Premat
14:46	F5KSepang	And we've got more cars off at turn 1
14:46	F5KSepang	This time its Dumbrell and McLaughlin coming together
14:47	F5KSepang	Evans is up to 7th, having dispatched of Kiwi ring-in Simon Bourne
14:48	F5KSepang	As we now have Leong and Michael Robertson off the track
14:48	F5KSepang	The rain is absolutely bucketing down now
14:48	F5KSepang	And these guys are clearly struggling with the high-power, low downforce packages
14:49	F5KSepang	And we've got three wide between Lloyd, Premat and Evans!
14:49	F5KSepang	Holdsworth!
14:49	F5KSepang	He's off at turn 2!
14:49	F5KSepang	As Pye takes second from Stanaway!
14:50	F5KSepang	Evans and Lloyd both dispatch of Premat
14:50	F5KSepang	And Holdsworth has bogged the car in the grass!
14:51	F5KSepang	The conditions have gotten too treacherous for the wets
14:51	F5KSepang	And in comes Simpson to switch to Monsoons!
14:51	F5KSepang	Pye and several others also come in
14:52	F5KSepang	As we now have a fight for the lead between Stanaway and Evans
14:52	F5KSepang	Stanaway!
14:52	F5KSepang	Evans!
14:52	F5KSepang	They're both off!
14:52	F5KSepang	Into the lead goes Jordan Lloyd!
14:52	F5KSepang	Pye!
14:53	F5KSepang	He's off in a gravel trap with Belcher!
14:53	F5KSepang	It's like driving on ice out there for these guys!
14:54	F5KSepang	Lloyd stays out for another lap
14:54	F5KSepang	As Evans and Stanaway pit
14:54	F5KSepang	... oh lol
14:54	F5KSepang	Vettel's car's broken down in the drivers' parade ;l
14:54	F5KSepang	:L *
14:54	RealRacingRoots	shit
14:56	F5KSepang	Watson and Leong are off making sandcastles
14:56	F5KSepang	As Dave Simpson takes the lead from Lloyd
14:56	F5KSepang	O'Lauchlan's now up to 3rd ahead of McLaughlin and Heimgartner
14:57	F5KSepang	And we're only on lap 6 of 19
14:58	F5KSepang	Sandy Stuvik is doing a solid job for Toyota Team Thailand
14:58	F5KSepang	Having just taken 7th from Premat
14:58	F5KSepang	If it's any consolation for the 21 remaining drivers, the rain is starting to ease
14:59	F5KSepang	McLaughlan takes 3rd from O'Lauchlan
14:59	F5KSepang	As Heimgarter pits from 5th
14:59	F5KSepang	And now Stuvik takes that 5th spot from Lee Rogers into turn 1!
15:01	F5KSepang	Mitch Evans moves up into 7th at the expense of teammate Premat
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15:01	F5KSepang	Who now loses two more spots to Stanaway and Robertson
15:01	F5KSepang	O'Lauchlan's off the road
15:01	tommykl	Yo, do I have an hour before the F1 starts?
15:01	F5KSepang	And the Horan crew promptly respond with bringing him in
15:01	F5KSepang	Yes, yes you do
15:02	F5KSepang	Rogers!
15:02	F5KSepang	He's pointing the wrong way at the hairpin!
15:02	tommykl	Good, time to go back to sleep for a bit
15:02		--- tommykl is away (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)
15:02	F5KSepang	Stuvik's flying!
15:02	F5KSepang	He's taken 3rd from McLaughlin!
15:03	F5KSepang	And now the Kiwi's got Mitch Evans all over him!
15:04	F5KSepang	The order on lap 8 of 19 is Simpson, Lloyd, Stuvik, Evans, McLaughlin, Stanaway, Premat, Robertson, Rogers and O'Lauchlan
15:04	F5KSepang	BRM brings in Lloyd from 2nd
15:04	F5KSepang	McLaughlin also stops for Leketus
15:05	F5KSepang	Evans!
15:05	F5KSepang	He puts a bold move on Stuvik to take 2nd!
15:05	F5KSepang	But Simpson is the better part of 25 seconds up the road
15:06	F5KSepang	As we now cut to a fight for 13th between Tan, Dumbrell, Bourne, Clifton and Pye
15:06	F5KSepang	And right on cue, Pye and Clifton punt each other off the road
15:07	F5KSepang	Debutant Raghunathan is ahead of this lot in 12th place
15:07	F5KSepang	Having kept his nose clean away from the chaos around him
15:07	T88	loool
15:08	F5KSepang	Evans is slowly but surely catching Simpson
15:08	F5KSepang	But with a 20 second gap with 10 to go, he's got a lot of work ahead of him
15:09	F5KSepang	But he's taken over 3 seconds out of that lead after 2 sectors!
15:09	F5KSepang	And the gap
15:09	F5KSepang	s down to 17 seconds at the line!
15:09	F5KSepang	Stuvik is desperately trying to keep his podium spot
15:09	F5KSepang	As he has Richie Stanaway all over him
15:10	F5KSepang	And we've got people coming in for second stops
15:10	F5KSepang	STUVIK!
15:10	F5KSepang	HE'S OFF THE ROAD!
15:11	F5KSepang	The Toyota Team are in shock
15:11	RealRacingRoots	NOOOOOOOOOO
15:11	RealRacingRoots	HE WAS THE CHOSEN ONE
15:11	F5KSepang	And with nothing to lose now, they're looking like getting another set of tyres ready
15:11	F5KSepang	Evans is absolutely flying out there
15:12	F5KSepang	The gap is down to 12.3 seconds at the line on lap 12 of 19
15:12	T88
15:12	F5KSepang	Michael Robertson comes in for a stop
15:12	F5KSepang	The order is Simpson, Evans, Stanaway, Premat and Rogers
15:13	F5KSepang	Stuvik has rejoined in 6th
15:14	F5KSepang	And flies off the road again
15:14	F5KSepang	CRASHU!
15:15	RealRacingRoots	=(
15:15	F5KSepang	Dumbrell and Clifton have come together at the back of the field
15:15	F5KSepang	And the damage to both cars will put them out of the race
15:16	F5KSepang	And in comes Premat and Rogers from 4th and 5th!
15:18	F5KSepang	The gap up front is under 5 seconds now
15:18	F5KSepang	Simpson is fast running out of tyres
15:18	F5KSepang	And here we go
15:18	F5KSepang	It's down to just 7 tenths of a second
15:19	F5KSepang	Evans sweeps around the outside at turn 3 to take the lead!
15:19	T88	:d:d:d:d
15:19	T88
15:19	F5KSepang	The rain has also stopped, so this track is going to dry quite rapidly
15:19	T88	oh boy
15:20	F5KSepang	Stanaway is still 3rd from O'Lauchlan, McLaughlin, Lloyd, Heimgartner and Robertson
15:20	F5KSepang	And Scotty Mac takes 4th from O'Lauchlan
15:21	F5KSepang	5 laps to go
15:21	F5KSepang	And we're seeing green and purple sectors all over the gaff
15:21	F5KSepang	Robertson takes 7th from Heimgartner
15:22	F5KSepang	Weiron Tan goes for a field trip in 17th position
15:23	F5KSepang	Robertson and Premat both have pace to burn out there
15:23	F5KSepang	As the former takes 6th from Rogers
15:23	F5KSepang	And the latter steals 8th from Heimgartner
15:24	F5KSepang	Interestingly, Stanaway is steadily reeling in his teammate for second
15:24	F5KSepang	Next target for Robertson is his teammate O'Lauchlan
15:25	F5KSepang	As Premat nabs 7th from Lloyd with extreme prejudice
15:25	F5KSepang	And off goes O'Lauchlan
15:25	F5KSepang	Relinquishing two spots to Robertson and Premat
15:26	F5KSepang	Scotty Mac is the next victim for this dueo
15:26	F5KSepang	duo*
15:26	F5KSepang	How much higher can these two climb with 3 to go
15:26	F5KSepang	And Robertson's through heading into the final hairpin
15:26	F5KSepang	Next up is Stanaway
15:26	F5KSepang	Who's got a 7 second gap to the Australian
15:27	F5KSepang	Amazingly, there's a dry line starting to form in places
15:28	F5KSepang	Here we go
15:28	F5KSepang	Robertson is all over Stanaway for 3rd
15:28	F5KSepang	And Premat wants 5th from McLaughlin
15:28	F5KSepang	And through goes Robertson!
15:28	F5KSepang	Can he get second from Simpson with 2 to go?
15:29	F5KSepang	Sandy Stuvik is also knocking on the door of a top 10
15:29	F5KSepang	He's got his sights trained on Andre Heimgartner, who currently sits in 10th
15:29	F5KSepang	As Lee Rogers takes 7th from teammate Lloyd
15:29	T88	nice, very nice
15:29	F5KSepang	He's also on fresh rubber
15:30	F5KSepang	And through goes Premat on Stanaway and McLaughlin while we were talking!
15:30	F5KSepang	Robertson's all over Simpson!
15:30	F5KSepang	These guys are well past the cliff on tyres
15:30	F5KSepang	Robertson goes into second!
15:30	F5KSepang	And Stuvik takes both Heimgartner and O'Lauchlan!
15:31	F5KSepang	Premat's all over Simpson for 3rd!
15:31	T88	c'mon
15:31	F5KSepang	And Stanaway is now behind McLaughlin!
15:31	F5KSepang	Stuvik's past Lloyd
15:31	F5KSepang	As Mitch Evans starts the final lap
15:31	F5KSepang	Premat!
15:31	F5KSepang	He's into third!
15:31	T88
15:32	F5KSepang	O'Lauchlan's around at the final corner!
15:32	F5KSepang	McLaughlin's past Simpson now as well!
15:32	F5KSepang	But the Prodrive driver is attempting to fight back!
15:32	F5KSepang	Lee Rogers wants 6th from Stanaway!
15:32	F5KSepang	Stanaway's off!
15:33	F5KSepang	But there are no such dramas for Mitch Evans
15:33	F5KSepang	He made all the right calls
15:33	F5KSepang	And as he comes around the final corner, he knows how important this is
15:33	F5KSepang	As he wins again in Sepang!
15:33	F5KSepang	Michael Robertson comes home in second place
15:34	F5KSepang	And Alex Premat completes a double podium for Triple Eight in third place
15:34	F5KSepang	ROGERS!
15:34	RealRacingRoots	apparently the espn start to the f1 broadcast was a complete shambles lmao
15:34	F5KSepang	HE GETS 5TH FROM SIMPSON AT THE LINE!
15:34	F5KSepang	Sandy Stuvik recovered to finish 7th
15:34	T88	YES
15:34	RealRacingRoots	"OMFG ESPN. Starts coverage. Shows a still camera of one of the corners, cuts to a ad a minute, returns to the same still camera for a minute, cuts to another ad"
15:34	F5KSepang	While Jordan Lloyd, Scott Pye and Andre Heimgartner round out the top 10
15:34	T88	1-3
15:35	T88	hail victory bois
15:36		*** T88 is now known as Normal32
15:36	F5KSepang	Those extra 6 points Simpson lost at the line could prove crucial
15:37	F5KSepang	As the lead he has over Evans has been slashed to just twelve points
15:37	F5KSepang	Scott Pye will walk away with the point for fastest lap
15:37	F5KSepang	Join us again on Sunday for two more races at the Sepang circuit