Sepang 2019 Race 2

19:09	F5KSepang	Welcome to Sunday here at the Sepang International Circuit, and what a difference a day makes
19:10	F5KSepang	Under the lights last night, Mitch Evans proved to be the maestro of the wet to take a commanding win as everyone faltered around him
19:10	F5KSepang	But today, the sun is shining for our second race
19:10	F5KSepang	But further rain threatens our third and final race under lights tonight
19:11	F5KSepang	Alongside him is Michael Robertson, who provided much of the excitement late in the race as he, along with Alex Premat, scythed their way through the field
19:11	F5KSepang	Can he go one better today?
19:11	F5KSepang	We're about to find out as the red lights come on
19:12	F5KSepang	And we're away!
19:12	F5KSepang	Robertson gets a great jump from second and takes the lead from Evans!
19:12	Pasteria_Ferrari	"09:10	F5KSepang	Under the lights last night, Mitch Evans proved to be the maestro of the wet to take a commanding win as everyone faltered around him" - inspired by supercars race 3 at Albert Park?
19:12	F5KSepang	Premat goes down the inside to make it three wide into turn 1
19:12	F5KSepang	Nah, races 1 and 3 at Sepang were always gonna be night races
19:13	F5KSepang	The Supercars event was an added bonus
19:13	F5KSepang	Frenchie's having none of it as he hipchecks Robertson out of the way to take the lead!
19:13	Normal32	oh btw RRR
19:13		*** Normal32 is now known as T88
19:13	F5KSepang	Evans and McLaughlin follow him through
19:14	F5KSepang	And we've got drama at turn 4 as Tan and Belcher come together in the midfield
19:14	F5KSepang	Oh my!
19:14	F5KSepang	Evans runs wide at turn 8!
19:14	F5KSepang	Premat, rather
19:14	F5KSepang	Evans and McLaughlin are through!
19:14	T88	ah
19:14	T88	phew
19:14	F5KSepang	And Scotty Mac dives down the inside of Evans into turn 9!
19:15	F5KSepang	PREMAT!
19:15	F5KSepang	He gets turned around by Robertson!
19:15	F5KSepang	Evans outbrakes himself into nine!
19:15	F5KSepang	SANDY STUVIK IS SECOND!
19:15	T88	!
19:15	F5KSepang	This has been an absolute manic first lap!
19:15	F5KSepang	Evans suddenly finds himself in 7th!
19:16	Pasteria_Ferrari	How's muh boy Raghunathan doing?
19:16	F5KSepang	And it's not over yet!
19:16	RealRacingRoots	MY BODY
19:16	RealRacingRoots	AND MY BOY
19:16	F5KSepang	Rogers and Simpson are all over Stuvik
19:16	F5KSepang	EVANS!
19:16	F5KSepang	HE'S ON HIS LID AT THE FINAL HAIRPIN!
19:16	F5KSepang	WHAT"S GONE ON HERE?
19:16	T88	hmmm
19:16	Pasteria_Ferrari	breakfast?
19:17	F5KSepang	He's had wheel to wheel contact with Lee Rogers mid-corner!
19:17	F5KSepang	It was a lazy roll in the end
19:17	F5KSepang	PREMAT!
19:17	F5KSepang	He's been spun at the final corner
19:17	T88	lol
19:17	F5KSepang	What started out as a 1-2 for Triple Eight has turned into a total disaster in 90 seconds!
19:18	F5KSepang	Evans somehow walks away from that with only a damaged front wing!
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19:18	F5KSepang	McLaughlin's off at turn 2!
19:18	mib_evwnto	Kek
19:19	F5KSepang	Jordan Lloyd leads from Dave Simpson, as both muscled their way past Stuvik at turn 1!
19:19	F5KSepang	These guys are fighting for sheepstations at the moment
19:19	F5KSepang	And Dave knows this is a golden opportunity to get some points on Evans
19:19	T88
19:19	F5KSepang	SIMPSON!
19:19	F5KSepang	STUVIK!
19:19	F5KSepang	THEY COME TOGETHER AT TURN 4!
19:19	F5KSepang	WHAT IS HAPPENING?!
19:19	mib_evwnto	Did gp4.exe start working?
19:20	RealRacingRoots	NOOO
19:21	F5KSepang	Holdsworth run out of road at turn 7
19:21	F5KSepang	And Voeckler and Heimgartner have come together at turn 9!
19:21	F5KSepang	Both are out of the race
19:21	T88	my god
19:21	T88	how many laps in?
19:21	T88	out of?
19:21	F5KSepang	Robertson has a look at Scotty Mac heading into the hairpin
19:22	F5KSepang	And off goes McLaughlin!
19:22	F5KSepang	We're only on lap 3 of 19!
19:22	F5KSepang	And around goes Robertson!
19:22	F5KSepang	Scotty Mac's climbing out of his car, and is absolutely furious!
19:22	mib_evwnto	Please Ozzie drivers
19:22	mib_evwnto	PLEASE
19:23	T88	oh boy, oh boy
19:23	F5KSepang	Suddenly, the order is Jordan Lloyd from O'Lauchlan, Pye, Charles Leong and Lee Rogers!
19:23	mib_evwnto	Where's the Indian Gorilla?
19:23	F5KSepang	Raghunathan is up to the dizzying heights of ninth on his debut weekend!
19:23	F5KSepang	But soon loses the position to Paul Dumbrell at turn 1
19:23	mib_evwnto	Lel
19:24	F5KSepang	ROGERS!
19:24	F5KSepang	He completely misjudges the braking into turn 4 and slams into Leong!
19:25	F5KSepang	The Macanese driver somehow survives the impact but will lost a huge chunk of time
19:25	Pasteria_Ferrari	oh sweet kek
19:25	F5KSepang	But that's day done for the BRM!
19:25	Pasteria_Ferrari	Is this a dry race?
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19:25	F5KSepang	PYE!
19:25	F5KSepang	He's off into the turn 6 gravel trap!
19:26	RaghunathanFTW	It has to be a monsoon like 2009 F1 IRL
19:26	F5KSepang	And Leong's beached it as well!
19:26	T88	he made his pye and ate it
19:26	F5KSepang	The order is now Lloyd from O'Lauchlan, Stanaway, Bourne and Robertson
19:26	RaghunathanFTW	Normal pls
19:26	Pasteria_Ferrari	"09:10	F5KSepang	But today, the sun is shining for our second race"
19:27	Pasteria_Ferrari	Jesus, this is a dry race
19:27	RaghunathanFTW	Oh god
19:27	F5KSepang	Dumbrell is 6th from Raghunathan, Stuvik, Premat and Clifton
19:27	RaghunathanFTW	F5K drivers are just uber-scrubs then
19:27	Pasteria_Ferrari	Geoff Crammond, how on earth did you create such a kekfest simulator?
19:27	F5KSepang	And we've got yet more drama at the hairpin
19:27	Pasteria_Ferrari	Everything is opposite down under
19:27	F5KSepang	Raghuanathan and Stuvik come together
19:27	F5KSepang	SIMPSON!
19:28	T88	prolly the circuit
19:28	T88	maybe?
19:28	T88	idk
19:28	RaghunathanFTW	True
19:28	F5KSepang	HE GETS COLLECTED IN THE MESS!
19:28	Pasteria_Ferrari	There's kekfests in the dry and boring processions in the wet
19:28	T88	ooof
19:28	F5KSepang	And out goes out championship leader!
19:28	T88
19:28	F5KSepang	And Stuvik and Raghuanathan come together again on the rejoin
19:28	F5KSepang	Because of course they do
19:28	Pasteria_Ferrari	sweet lord
19:28	T88	lmao
19:28	RaghunathanFTW	Ape pls
19:29	T88	the 888s?
19:29	Pasteria_Ferrari	is muh boy out of the race?
19:29	F5KSepang	Okay, let's take a breath for a minute and process what has just happened
19:29	F5KSepang	Lloyd still leads, but has O'Lauchlan breathing down his neck
19:29	F5KSepang	Then there's a gap to Stanaway, Bourne, Robertson and co
19:29	RaghunathanFTW	Inb4 curashee
19:30	F5KSepang	Dumbrell's up to P6 on his own
19:30	F5KSepang	Premat is back up into 7th
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19:30	F5KSepang	And at the back end of the top 10, we have Watson, Clifton and Belcher battling it out for 8th
19:30	F5KSepang	FINALLY!
19:30	F5KSepang	A CLEAN MOVE!
19:30	T88	Evans?
19:31	F5KSepang	O'Lauchlan slips one down the inside of Lloyd and takes the lead!
19:31	F5KSepang	But Lloyd fights back at turn 1 and reclaims it!
19:31	T88	Clean move: 1
19:31	F5KSepang	Dumbrell pits from 6th
19:31	F5KSepang	As we have a fight to the death for what is now 10th between local hero Tan and Holdsworth
19:32	F5KSepang	Evans meanwhile is up to 13th behind Heimgartner
19:32	T88	c'mon lad
19:32	F5KSepang	O'Lauchlan!
19:32	F5KSepang	What a divebomb move into turn 9 to take the lead!
19:33	F5KSepang	As Holdsworth has a lose on his own
19:33	F5KSepang	Evans has a look at Heimgartner, but can't get it done
19:33	F5KSepang	And that's Clifton off in a runoff area somewhere
19:35	F5KSepang	The pit window is now open, as the madness has finally calmed down
19:35	F5KSepang	The big battle at the moment is between Bourne and Robertson for 4th position
19:36	F5KSepang	O'LAUCHLAN!
19:36	F5KSepang	Suspension failure!
19:36	F5KSepang	Our race leader's day is done!
19:36	T88	rip
19:37	F5KSepang	As Leong does some more circlework at the final hairpin
19:37	T88	so the race seems to have calmed a bit
19:37	F5KSepang	Lloyd has a 9 second lead on Stanaway as we're on lap 7 of 19
19:38	F5KSepang	Robertson clears Bourne with minimal fuss
19:39	F5KSepang	As we cut to a frantic battle between Tan, Heimgartner and Evans for 12th position
19:39	F5KSepang	The local hero is defending heavily from the advances of the drivers behind him
19:39	F5KSepang	And as I say that, Evans shoves him clean off the road at turn 4!
19:40	F5KSepang	Bourne is clearly struggling for pace at the moment
19:40	F5KSepang	Losing 4th to Premat
19:42	F5KSepang	The order is Lloyd from Stanaway, Robertson, Premat, Bourne, Belcher, Stuvik, Dumbrell, Clifton and Holdsworth in 10th
19:42	F5KSepang	And as I say that, the Peak crew are getting ready to service their man Bourne
19:42	F5KSepang	Stanaway has been closing on Lloyd for a number of laps now
19:42	F5KSepang	The gap at one point was nearly 10 seconds
19:43	F5KSepang	And its now down to 6.5
19:44	F5KSepang	And we now see some life from the Horan garage
19:44	F5KSepang	As they get ready to receive Michael Robertson
19:45	F5KSepang	The two Erebus cars are in close proximity of each other
19:45	F5KSepang	But Clifton is yet to stop
19:45	F5KSepang	Evans and the lapped Scott Pye are closing in on this duo as well
19:46	F5KSepang	Stuvik also comes into the pits
19:46	F5KSepang	And Raghunathan has some issues with the turn 14 runoff
19:47	F5KSepang	And into the pitlane comes Jordan Lloyd
19:47	F5KSepang	He is in the box seat to claim his first victory if he can just hold on
19:47	F5KSepang	Robertson is the first of those who have stopped
19:47	F5KSepang	And is in hand-to-hand combat with Belcher for 4th
19:48	F5KSepang	The Prodrive and Triple Eight crews are getting ready for pitstops now
19:48	F5KSepang	Most likely for Stanaway and Premat who are currently 1st and 2nd
19:48	F5KSepang	Mitch Evans has also passed Holdsworth in the meantime
19:49	F5KSepang	And is now up into 8th
19:49	F5KSepang	And in comes Stanaway
19:49	F5KSepang	Premat follows him at the end of lap 12 of 19
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19:50	F5KSepang	And Lloyd resumes in the lead of the race
19:50	F5KSepang	Stanaway rejoins in 2nd ahead of Robertson, Belcher, Premat, Bourne, Dumbrell, Evans, Holdsworth and Stuvik
19:51	F5KSepang	And that's a Toyota up in smoke!
19:51	F5KSepang	Heimgartner pulls off to the side of the road out of 11th position
19:51	F5KSepang	Belcher comes in from 4th position
19:52	F5KSepang	Which will be the last of the compulsory pitstops
19:52	F5KSepang	Stuvik has plenty of pace to burn
19:52	F5KSepang	He's all over Holdsworth for 9th position
19:52	F5KSepang	NO!
19:52	F5KSepang	Around goes Stuvik!
19:52	F5KSepang	The commentator's curse has struck again!
19:52	RealRacingRoots	NOOOOO
19:53	F5KSepang	He resumes in 10th, but a long way behind Holdsworth now
19:53	F5KSepang	As Belcher resumes in 8th just ahead of the lead Erebus car
19:53	F5KSepang	Scott Pye's engine explodes, putting a merciful early end to his afternoon
19:53	F5KSepang	As Leong and Watson go off at turn 1
19:54	F5KSepang	Stanaway and Robertson are both catching Lloyd hand over fist
19:54	F5KSepang	Can the BRM driver hold on with five laps to go?
19:55	F5KSepang	The gap first to second is down to 3.8 seconds
19:55	F5KSepang	And Robertson's only another 2.9 further back
19:56	F5KSepang	And the gap first to third is down to 6.2 at the line
19:56	F5KSepang	4 to go
19:56	F5KSepang	And Lloyd's about to encounter traffic in the form of Leong
19:56	F5KSepang	Who's almost 2 laps down and simply circulating to gather points
19:57	F5KSepang	Holdsworth's also caught Belcher for 8th position in the dieing stages
19:58	F5KSepang	Lloyd to Stanaway is down to just 2.3 seconds at the line
19:58	F5KSepang	3 to go
19:58	F5KSepang	Robertson's only 2.3 behind Stanaway now as well
19:59	F5KSepang	It's down to 2.2 at sector 1
19:59	F5KSepang	And that's Leong getting in the way there
19:59	F5KSepang	This is the last thing Lloyd needs!
20:00	F5KSepang	Charles takes a long time to react, but finally steps out of the way of Lloyd
20:00	F5KSepang	Evans has also mowed down the gap to Dumbrell in 6th
20:00	F5KSepang	Premat!
20:00	F5KSepang	He's off!
20:00	F5KSepang	He rejoins in 5th behind Belcher
20:00	T88	ffs Frenchie
20:01	F5KSepang	2 to go
20:01	F5KSepang	1.8 is the lead for Lloyd
20:01	T88	you are not even useful at running wide
20:01	F5KSepang	But he has Leong as a buffer now
20:01	F5KSepang	Evans wants past Dumbrell
20:01	F5KSepang	But the former Development Series Champ and Bathurst 100 winner is hanging on for dear life
20:01	F5KSepang	Robertson!
20:02	F5KSepang	He runs wide at turn 7!
20:02	F5KSepang	The battle for the win is down to two drivers now
20:02	F5KSepang	Will it be Jordan Lloyd or Richie Stanaway?
20:02	F5KSepang	The Evans recovery drive continues
20:02	F5KSepang	As he takes 6th from Dumbrell at turn 9
20:02	F5KSepang	Jordan Lloyd is on his last lap
20:03	F5KSepang	The gap is 1.2 seconds to Stanaway
20:03	F5KSepang	But there's more traffic up ahead in Watson and Raghunathan
20:03	F5KSepang	Will they play a deciding role in this race?
20:03	F5KSepang	Stanaway's had a mega first sector
20:03	F5KSepang	It's down to 0.5!
20:03	F5KSepang	Stanaway has a run out of turn 8!
20:03	F5KSepang	Lloyd defends!
20:04	F5KSepang	He hangs on!
20:04	F5KSepang	Raghunathan is up ahead!
20:04	F5KSepang	The Indian holds Lloyd up!
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20:04	F5KSepang	He escorts him wide!
20:04	F5KSepang	And cuts Stanaway off on exit!
20:04	T88	ooof
20:05	F5KSepang	Stanaway has a desperate lunge at the final hairpin
20:05	F5KSepang	But it won't be enough!
20:05	F5KSepang	Jordan Lloyd hangs on to WIN IN SEPANG!
20:05	F5KSepang	Michael Robertson comes home in 3rd, and will have the pole for race 3 tonight
20:05	F5KSepang	Alex Premat retakes 4th from Simon Bourne on the last lap
20:06	F5KSepang	With Mitch Evans, Paul Dumbrell, Seamus Belcher, Lee Holdsworth and Sandy Stuvik completing the top 10
20:06	T88	not bad considering the horrendous start
20:06	T88	I will tak eit
20:06	T88	take it*
20:06	F5KSepang	Michael Robertson also claims the bonus point for fastest lap
20:06	T88	I dunno if I will stick for the 3rd race however...
20:07	F5KSepang	But more importantly, Mitch Evans takes the lead of the championship with Simpson's 20th place finish