North Shore Race 1

21:02	F5KNorthShore	Hello and welcome to Auckland for round 10 of the 2019-20 Formula 5000 seasons
21:02	GertrandBachot	Woo
21:02	F5KNorthShore	Christmas is less than two weeks away, and Dave Simpson wants the championship lead back as his present
21:02	GertrandBachot	And I'm just getting Day 1 of CART Spring Testing up
21:02	F5KNorthShore	He came three points closer to doing so with pole today alongside teammate Richie Stanaway
21:02	F5KNorthShore	However, the man looking to be his Christmas Grinch starts 4th
21:03	F5KNorthShore	The layout at North Shore Aerodrome has already drawn comparisons to Burke Lake in the United States
21:03	F5KNorthShore	Which will present a unique challenge for our 22 drivers and teams
21:03	F5KNorthShore	The first of three 30 laps races awaits us as the lights come on
21:04	F5KNorthShore	And we're away!
21:04	F5KNorthShore	Stanaway bogs it off the front row and immediately gets swallowed up by the pack
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21:04	GertrandBachot	Richie pls
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21:04	Miguel98	Williams P19-20
21:04	Miguel98	lord help :L
21:04	F5KNorthShore	Simpson leads from Pye, Evans and Stanaway
21:05	F5KNorthShore	Premat!
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21:05	F5KNorthShore	He gets turned around by Scott McLaughlin!
21:05	Miguel98	where are my boys on the grid?
21:05	Miguel98	Scotty y
21:05	F5KNorthShore	The Leketus driver is out on the spot
21:05	F5KNorthShore	And Premat is down to 21st
21:05	Normal32	where the T8s at?
21:06	Normal32	Premat ffs
21:06	F5KNorthShore	Jordan Lloyd is down to 7th, having started from 5th on the grid
21:06	F5KNorthShore	Lee Rogers in the sister BRM is not hanging around
21:06	F5KNorthShore	A difficult qualifying session left him 15th
21:06	F5KNorthShore	But he's already up to 10th halfway around the first lap
21:06	F5KNorthShore	Evans has a run on Pye into the final chicane
21:07	F5KNorthShore	But the Bryan Taylor driver firmly shuts the door
21:07	F5KNorthShore	Stanaway and Robertson take advantage to overtake the sole remaining Triple 8 driver into turn 1
21:08	GertrandBachot	Which scrub runs Triple 8?
21:08	F5KNorthShore	They go three wide into the final chicane!
21:08	F5KNorthShore	And Robertson clears Stanaway for third!
21:08	Normal32	you mean the team that has been dominating the past few races?
21:08	F5KNorthShore	Lloyd and Belcher are getting all up in everyone's grill now into the hairpin!
21:08	Normal32	and is currently 1st?
21:08	Normal32	me
21:09	F5KNorthShore	LLOYD!
21:09	F5KNorthShore	HE GOES FROM 6TH TO 4TH!
21:09	Normal32	oof
21:09	F5KNorthShore	And Evans runs wide on exit!
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21:09	F5KNorthShore	He drops more spots to Belcher and Simon Bourne!
21:09	F5KNorthShore	Meanwhile, Dean Fiore has looped it at the final corner
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21:09	Dom	hey Wazzle
21:10	F5KNorthShore	And rookie Mason Simonsen finds himself pointing the wrong way at the hairpin
21:10	Dom	I decided to ruin Gertrand's life in the Alt-F3K thread
21:10	Dom	just so you know
21:10	F5KNorthShore	Yeah, I'll leave you two to sort that out amongst yourselves
21:10	Dom	also
21:10	Dom	why does that ARWS car like it was sponsored by Shyte Madick
21:10	Dom
21:10	GertrandBachot	And you were gonna get rewarded in CART pre-season testing as well, what a shame
21:11	F5KNorthShore	Simpson has disappeared into the distance meanwhile
21:11	F5KNorthShore	He has a three second lead on Pye
21:11	F5KNorthShore	Who in turn has another 5 on Robertson
21:11	Dom	"Domino's"
21:11	Dom	assume that was not a pun on my name
21:11	F5KNorthShore	Stanaway is all over the back of Lloyd for fourth
21:11	Dom	oh also
21:11	Dom	it turns out I have a damaged Lotus
21:12	F5KNorthShore	CONTACT!
21:12	F5KNorthShore	Lloyd gets launched over the kerb!
21:12	F5KNorthShore	And the suspension collapses on landing!
21:12	Normal32	rip
21:12	Dom	who made the suspension in the first place?
21:12	Dom
21:13	F5KNorthShore	Stanaway rejoins all the way down in 20th!
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21:13	F5KNorthShore	The order on lap 4 of 30 is Simpson, Pye, Robertson, Evans and debutant Nick Cassidy
21:13	F5KNorthShore	Belcher, Rogers, O'Lauchlan, Holdsworth and Muirhead round out the top 10
21:14	Dom	ugh
21:14	Dom	do I want to run Spirit
21:14	Dom
21:14	F5KNorthShore	And Around goes Holdsworth!
21:14	F5KNorthShore	He gets collected by Muirhead!
21:14	F5KNorthShore	And that's day done for both of them!
21:14	Dom	also
21:14	GertrandBachot	Could I tempt you with Bruno Junqueira topping Spring Testing Day 1 timesheets at Homestead by 6 tenths of a second?
21:15	Dom	I sincerely hope petoli comes and confirms his team
21:15	Dom	tempting works
21:15	Dom	however it was on quali pace
21:15	GertrandBachot	Yes
21:15	Dom	so basically
21:15	F5KNorthShore	Thanks to all the silliness and some clever moves, Premat is now back into the top 10
21:15	Dom	it doesn't matter
21:15	F5KNorthShore	Running just behind Heimgartner who occupies 9th
21:16	F5KNorthShore	And just as I say that, Heimgartner runs out of road at turn 1
21:16	GertrandBachot	But it's *something*
21:16	GertrandBachot	It's better than Martin Donnelly qualifi
21:16	F5KNorthShore	And we now cut to an angry battle pack consisting of Simonsen, Fiore, Gracie and Stanaway for 14th
21:16	GertrandBachot	qualifying 27th every race
21:16	Dom	but he qualified 23rd last race
21:16	Dom
21:16	GertrandBachot	Apart from that
21:16	F5KNorthShore	The pit window is now open
21:16	Dom	and also in the first two races
21:16	F5KNorthShore	And Robertson is the first to stop
21:17	Dom	also
21:17	F5KNorthShore	The Prodrive crew have reacted, and are gonna bring Simpson in this lap
21:17	Dom	I really don't want to ruin Bromley
21:17	Dom	so I hope petoli comes
21:17	GertrandBachot	Let me have a go at PSR, because I actually have a plan for them
21:18	Dom	you should improve your finance managing
21:18	Dom	Bromley would work a treat
21:18	F5KNorthShore	This leaves Pye out in front from Evans
21:18	Dom	either that or we just both speak to Wazzle and whatever plan that is better he chooses
21:18	GertrandBachot	Yes, that would be best
21:18	F5KNorthShore	Premat's miserable afternoon comes to an end with a left-rear suspension failure
21:19	Dom	I mean
21:19	Dom	AndreaModa does not come on either now
21:19	GertrandBachot	Petoli's the only one of the three who's been online recently, so he'll probably confirm Bromley
21:19	Dom	so you might as well get Spirit-TOM'S which is half-decent
21:19	GertrandBachot	Just need to ask Wazzle something before that
21:20	F5KNorthShore	Pye and Evans are currently deep in traffic
21:20	Dom	to be honest
21:20	F5KNorthShore	As Simpson behind them sets a new fastest lap
21:20	Dom	Paul Stewart Racing basically became the F1 team years later
21:20	GertrandBachot	Ah, I may actually take Spirit then
21:21	F5KNorthShore	And in comes Pye from the lead at the end of lap 10
21:21	Dom	you could rename Spirit for 91 when it comes
21:21	Dom	cause it's in shit
21:21	GertrandBachot	Because they're gonna prolly die after this year, so I can take Super Nova in 1991 and WINLOL for the next few years
21:21	F5KNorthShore	Simon Bourne meanwhile is miles off in a runoff somewhere
21:21	Dom	well
21:22	Dom	Spirit-TOM'S was supposed to be ded by now
21:22	F5KNorthShore	Jokes on you
21:22	Dom
21:22	F5KNorthShore	I decide what teams come and go
21:22	TCBY	I may have to join this waiting list...
21:22	Dom	well
21:22	Dom	Super Nova did not come till 1994
21:23	F5KNorthShore	Nick Cassidy comes in from 3rd position
21:23	F5KNorthShore	He's in what is effectively the second Erebus car
21:23	F5KNorthShore	Which is being prepared by local team M2 Competition this weekend
21:23	Dom	also
21:23	F5KNorthShore	And has been doing a solid if unspectacular job
21:23	Dom	the wiki is like wtf
21:23	Dom	two teams have 14-15
21:23	GertrandBachot	Does any driver I bid for *have* to be from F3, or can the American Racing Series count as sufficient experience?
21:24	F5KNorthShore	And Evans pits from the lead
21:24	Dom	think there was a rule about max. 10 races in F1 no?
21:24	Dom	or might have confused it with AR3.5
21:24	F5KNorthShore	PYE!
21:24	F5KNorthShore	HE GETS CLEANED UP BY LAPPED TRAFFIC!
21:24	GertrandBachot	I have an idea of who I'm gonna try to get
21:24	F5KNorthShore	HE'S OUT OF THE RACE!
21:25	F5KNorthShore	And he is AB. SO. LUTELY. *FURIOUS*
21:25	Dom	they ate the Pue
21:25	Normal32	!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
21:25	Dom	Pye*
21:25	GertrandBachot	But I'm not gonna say if Dom decides to try and fuck my plan up
21:26	Dom	1990 has got such a talent pool
21:26	Dom	anyone can get a gem really
21:26	Dom	7-8 top young drivers there
21:26		Normal32 is catching up with SF quali
21:26	Normal32	lol Dillmann
21:26	F5KNorthShore	And that's Tan getting out of the other Bryan Taylor car!
21:26	GertrandBachot	I wanna try and get HHF into my team
21:26	Normal32	http://superformula.net/sf2/race2018/round1802/results-qulify
21:26	F5KNorthShore	Looks like he got a helping hand from Rogers
21:26	GertrandBachot	Whatever it may be
21:27	F5KNorthShore	And Pye is fuming at Voeckler over the radio for that mess
21:27	F5KNorthShore	ROBERTSON!
21:27	Dom	normal32pls
21:27	F5KNorthShore	He's been turned around by the lapped Stanaway!
21:27	Dom	you certainly mean
21:27	Dom	lol LeMans
21:27	Normal32	yeah :L
21:27	Normal32	jfc
21:27	Normal32	Sakaguchi's also done very good in his first appereance
21:28	Mr_Klon	incidentally
21:28	F5KNorthShore	The order on lap 15 of 30 is Simpson, Evans, O'Lauchlan, Cassidy and Robertson
21:28	Mr_Klon	a shocking twist has happened
21:28	Mr_Klon	I am going to watch a real-life divegrass game today
21:28	Dom	I toyed with an idea of having Lehto and Hakkinen
21:28	Mr_Klon	and am anxious to see it
21:28	Dom	Holstein Kiel?
21:28	GertrandBachot	Dom Lehto already drives for Rial in F1 though...
21:29	Mr_Klon	nah, Holzbein is already in the relegation
21:29	Mr_Klon	it's about Hamburg
21:29	Normal32	so yeah
21:29	Normal32	if Dillmann's this weaksauce
21:29	F5KNorthShore	Fiore pits from what was P12
21:29	Dom	Hamburg
21:29	Normal32	imagine Ticktum
21:29	TCBY	Dom Mika Salo could be an option
21:29	Dom	watch them somehow finish 16th
21:29	Dom
21:29	Mr_Klon	it is destiny
21:30	Dom	so the talent pool we might have
21:30	Dom	MSC
21:30	Dom	Wendlinger
21:30	Dom	HHF
21:30	Dom	Irvine
21:30	Dom	Hakkinen
21:30	F5KNorthShore	The race has quietened down considerable
21:30	Dom	Morbidelli
21:30	F5KNorthShore	considerably*
21:30	F5KNorthShore	As Gracie pits from 11th
21:30	F5KNorthShore	Of the fourteen cars that are remaining
21:30	Dom	uh
21:30	Dom	Ellen Lohr
21:31	F5KNorthShore	This leaves Heimgartner and Raghunathan in 9th and 10th as the only drivers yet to pit
21:31	Dom	of Zanardo
21:31	Dom	ofc Zanardi
21:32	GertrandBachot	I'm pretty much gonna try and get future rookie CART drivers into m F3000 teams
21:32	GertrandBachot	*my
21:32	TCBY	Dom What about 1992 Japanese F3 champion (and BTCC ramming enthusiast) Anthony Reid?
21:32	Dom	oh you talkin PD
21:32	Dom	oh someone is obsessed about CART
21:32	GertrandBachot	Christian Fittipaldi
21:32	Dom	and I though Leyton House running Robbie Buhl was not enough
21:32	F5KNorthShore	Oh, Simonsen is yet to stop as well from 8th
21:32	Dom
21:33	Dom	C-Fitty is a good shout since he was in F1 not too long afterwards
21:33	F5KNorthShore	We now have a fight to the death for 12th
21:33	F5KNorthShore	Between Gracie and Fiore
21:33	Dom	uh
21:33	Dom	Ukyo?
21:33	GertrandBachot	He was in F3K in 1991 as well, so
21:33	Dom	Rubens will come in a few years as well
21:33	F5KNorthShore	Raghunathan pits from P10
21:34	F5KNorthShore	He'll rejoin right around this Gracie/Fiore scrap
21:34	Dom	and also the 1989 drivers like Herbert, Blundell and Lamy
21:34	Dom	and Artzet
21:34	GertrandBachot	What about Alessandro Zampedri?
21:34	TCBY	Dom Is Aguri Suzuki doing anything in 1990? He could be a reasonable F3000 driver
21:35	F5KNorthShore	Fiore is all over the Nissan
21:35	Dom	nope
21:35	Dom	also
21:35	Dom	I forgot
21:35	F5KNorthShore	He has a look into the final chicane
21:35	Dom	some bloke drove for PSR in 1993-1994
21:35	Dom	his name is de Ferran, Gil
21:35	F5KNorthShore	And he muscles her out of the way with extreme prejudice
21:35	GertrandBachot	Yes
21:35	Dom	imagine a Franchitti-de Ferran lineup in 1994
21:35	GertrandBachot	It's 1990
21:35	Dom	hoooooooo boi
21:35	F5KNorthShore	And in comes Simonsen from 8th
21:36	TCBY	Meanwhile at Monaco, Hakkinen and Irvine are reunited
21:36	GertrandBachot	Oh, I remembered who I wanted
21:36	F5KNorthShore	Oh here we go
21:36	GertrandBachot	Paul Tracy
21:36	F5KNorthShore	Lee Rogers has been clawing to the back of Robertson for the last several laps
21:36	F5KNorthShore	And now he wants to take 5th from the Horan driver
21:36	F5KNorthShore	He has a look at the final chicane!
21:37	F5KNorthShore	ROBERTSON SLAMS THE DOOR!
21:37	F5KNorthShore	OFF GOES ROGERS!
21:37	F5KNorthShore	OFF GOES ROBERTSON!
21:37	F5KNorthShore	They rejoin in the same positions
21:37	GertrandBachot	Or, for uber-kek
21:37	F5KNorthShore	But now Seamus Belcher is all up in their grill
21:37	Dom	OH
21:37	TCBY	Thierry Boutsen also appears to have not aged since about 1990
21:37	Dom	I got the perfect lineup
21:37	GertrandBachot	Jimmy Vasser
21:37	Dom	DC-Franchitti
21:37	F5KNorthShore	And there's lapped cars in Gracie and Bourne mixed up in this
21:37	Dom	in 93 or so
21:38	Dom	in 1990 maybe McNish would work a treat
21:38	Dom	cause, well
21:38	Dom	he's Scottish
21:38	F5KNorthShore	Robertson has a gap now
21:38	F5KNorthShore	But Belcher is all over Lloyd for 6th
21:39	F5KNorthShore	Simpson is about to start lap 24 of 30
21:39	GertrandBachot	What about TCBY's favourite driver, one Jacques Villeneuve?
21:39	F5KNorthShore	He has an 11 second gap on Evans
21:39	F5KNorthShore	But the Triple Eight driver is closing in at well over a second a lap
21:39	Dom	DC drove for PSR in 92
21:39	F5KNorthShore	This is going to go down to the wire
21:40	TCBY	Confusingly, Boutsen's in a Iso-Williams and Patrese's in a Wolf-Williams, while Karun Chandhok's in a proper Williams
21:40	Dom	just don't sign Oz drivers
21:40	Dom	Skaife and Lowndes were
21:40	Dom	well
21:40	Dom	shit
21:40	F5KNorthShore	Rogers has dropped Belcher
21:40	GertrandBachot	Imagine how many sparks would fly if there was a JV-PT lineup
21:40	F5KNorthShore	And has resumed his chase of Robertson
21:40	Dom	well
21:40	Dom	Wazzle won't be too happy
21:40	F5KNorthShore	They're side by side down the front straight!
21:40	F5KNorthShore	Robertson has the inside and holds on!
21:41	F5KNorthShore	The gap Simpson-Evans is down to 8 seconds at the line
21:41	F5KNorthShore	But Dave is about to encounter a lot of traffic
21:41	TCBY	And John Watson's in an ex-Moss Rob Walker Lotus 18
21:41	F5KNorthShore	In the form of Robertson, Rogers, Belcher, Gracie and Bourne
21:41	GertrandBachot	You could use Mad Max Papis
21:41	F5KNorthShore	Nick Cassidy fancies a podium on debut
21:41	Dom	GB
21:42	F5KNorthShore	He's all over O'Lauchlan for 3rd
21:42	Dom	or just use the kekkest PD drivers
21:42	F5KNorthShore	ROGERS!
21:42	F5KNorthShore	ROBERTSON!
21:42	Dom	CHRISTOPHE HURNI FTW
21:42	F5KNorthShore	THEY'VE COME TOGETHER AGAIN!
21:42	Dom	kek
21:42	F5KNorthShore	SIMPSON NARROWLY AVOIDS THE SPINNING CARS!
21:42	Dom	if he was Homer Simpson
21:42	Dom	he would have hit them
21:42	Dom
21:42	F5KNorthShore	And Bourne is around at turn 1!
21:42	F5KNorthShore	And Lloyd finally overtakes Robertson
21:42	F5KNorthShore	But Belcher is ahead of the pair of them
21:43	F5KNorthShore	And now Evans and Simonsen are mixed up in all of this
21:43	F5KNorthShore	FOUR WIDE!
21:43	F5KNorthShore	And somehow Mason Simonsen on debut goes from 8th to 6th in one move
21:43	F5KNorthShore	And now he fancies unlapping himself from Evans!
21:44	F5KNorthShore	Gracie goes around at the final chicane
21:45	F5KNorthShore	3 to go for Simpson
21:45	F5KNorthShore	The gap is down to 5.6
21:45	F5KNorthShore	And Simonsen passes Evans!
21:45	F5KNorthShore	That was the last thing out championship leader needed
21:45	F5KNorthShore	Simonsen gets dispatched of with extreme prejudice
21:46	F5KNorthShore	And loses a spot to Rogers as a receipt
21:46	F5KNorthShore	2 to go for Simpson
21:46	F5KNorthShore	And Heimgartner takes 10th from Raghunathan
21:46	TCBY	Irvine's driving an ex-Hunt Mclaren
21:47	F5KNorthShore	Simonsen retakes 6th from Rogers
21:47	TCBY	Wearing '99 Ferrari overalls
21:47	F5KNorthShore	O'Lauchlan has built a gap over Cassidy for 3rd and 4th
21:47	F5KNorthShore	As Dave Simpson starts his final lap
21:47	F5KNorthShore	With a 4.8 second lead, he should be safe
21:48	F5KNorthShore	Evans is having to fend from Simonsen again down the back straight
21:48	F5KNorthShore	But there's no such issues for Dave Simpson
21:48	F5KNorthShore	As he crosses the line and WINS IN AUCKLAND!
21:49	F5KNorthShore	Mitch Evans preserves his championship lead with second position
21:49	F5KNorthShore	And Dean O'Lauchlan returns to the podium in third position
21:50	F5KNorthShore	The rest of the top 10 consists of Nick Cassidy, Seamus Belcher, Mason Simonsen, Lee Rogers, Michael Robertson, Richie Stanaway and Andre Heimgartner
21:50	F5KNorthShore	Evans will also take home the point for fastest lap by 6 hundredths of a second over Simpson