But better late then never. Here is a little report of the Gentlemen's Cup race number 7, that was held on sunday the 22nd of June.

The track was the South City chicane Route and with 28 drivers the grid was almost filled completly.

Then after the back straight comes the downhill turn, a slow left hander and the nasty chicane. If you have mastered all this then there is only the last turn left. If you also got this one right then you'll have enough speed for the S/F part of the track.

But Lasse Vad did a fantastic 1:23.56 with only 26 seconds time on the clock and so no one was able to beat that. Congratulations, nice lap.

Our members qualified like this: Three Jump on P5, Esben on 7 followed by BBO and Richard on P9 and 10. Dean on the 19th and Andreas on 24.

Some couldn't repeat there times from the training sessions and so there were some wasted opportunities for our Team.

21 drivers qualified within 1 second and so it was no wonder that every 10th of a second brought you down the grid more then a few places.

The Race:
Again for some of us a little disaster. After the lag (test) start, right in front of the real start "Who Cares" dropped out and was placed at the end of the grid. BBO completly lost the connection and quickly joined the server again and then the Admins decided to restart the race for the 3rd time. Which was also done this way in some of the test races but I want to thank them again for this. Because starting from the 28th place is still better then to not race at all after all the practice sessions.

BBO (Bernd)
due to his disconnection had to start from the very last place. As 28th he had no other option then to push as hard as possible.

He had some good fights in the 32 laps and some really gave him a hard time, as it is not really easy to pass someone on that track, no matter if you are quicker or faster.

But he passed 19! other drivers and in the end he finished on a respectable 9th place. But he still is not sure if this was one of the best races he ever did or if it was just a big loss of points.

Richard
had again some problems with his grafix card at the start and his screen went black for a few seconds right in front of T2, so he missed that turn and almost parked on the track and lost 9 places during that.

A few turns later his was down to the 21 place. But like we do it in T7R, he never gave up and tried to fight his way back up and after some nice fighting he could finally finish on the 14th position.

Dean
had some problems in the first lap and went down to P23. It was strange to see four T7R drivers on P20,21,22 and 23. But there is a first time for everything.

Deano also didn't gave up and was at the near end of the race on P16 but a little mistake in lap 28 and Mikael Larsen passed him and so he finished on the 17th place.

Andreas (G.I.Joe)
couldn't find his speed in the qualifying but had a good start in the race and he quickly moved up some places and then the bad luck mode started.

In T1 of lap 2 when there were 4 cars wide he touched Richard a bit and slowed down and lost two place but quickly gained one back. In lap 3 right in front of him M. Fyhr lost control of the car while touching a wall and took Andreas with him. And another 5 places were lost.

In lap 4 he nicely passed two cars at once in the last turn and it looked like it will go on like this but at T1 of lap 5 he got an unlucky nudge from Kim Osterby and kissed the wall.   

In lap 16 after half of the race the bad luck knocked again at his door and he got a disconnection and that's it. No points this time.

Pingo (Kristian)
didn't raced this round.
In front of the race he said he wasn't sure if he could make it and unfortunatly he couldn't start this time.

The winner
of the race was Lasse Vad who made no big mistakes and who had an amazing speed through the qualifying and the whole race and no one really could go his speed this time not even Jouman who finished on the 2nd place. The third on the podium was T. Hising.

Final standings after Round 7:

It's still looking good for our Team and we hope we can go on like this and that we score some more points in the next round of the Gentlemen's Cup.

The next race:
The next race will be held after the big summer break on the Aston National track on the 31st of August.

Last but not least:

www.lfs-forum.dk

Have a good summertime everyone