Bottas wins first race at Australia
Valtteri Bottas wins second race in one week, this time at Surfers Paradise. The race was mostly dominated by the in race best "GP2-Human" driver Robert Sheperd, but a better pit strategy from Mercedes gives Bottas the win and Sheperd gets P2. Daniel Ricciardo couldn´t fight for the win giving up in the very last lap with mechanical failures.
Alexander Rossi finished P4, while Kurt Langer was fifth in a nice comeback to competition. Alex Diehl was P6 an example of consistency, keeping away of incidents and contacts. Phil Baffo was P7, but he had some contacts in a problematic corner of this venue (more on that later). Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sanchez and Felipe Massa completed the points positions.
Driver Championship Points
Valtteri Bottas 25
Robert Sheperd 18
Alexander Rossi 15
Kurt Langer 12
Esteban Ocon 10
Alex Diehl 8
Phil Baffo 6
Fernando Alonso 4
Carlos Sanchez 2
Felipe Massa 1
Constructors Championship Points
Mercedes AMG 25
Caccere Racing 18
Manor Mercedes 15
Ar-Racing 12
Force-India Mercedes 10
AD-Turbine 8
BTSV-Racing 6
McLaren Honda 4
McPherson Alfa 2
Williams Mercedes 1
Grip allocation values for next race (CC´s won´t get more grip)
Robert Sheperd 16020. This driver will have 4050 failure prob
Kurt Langer 16010. This driver will have 4030 failure prob
Alex Diehl 16005. This driver will have 4010 failure prob
All the rest will remain with initial values and any GP2-human driver can receive points from team managers, up to 100 points.
Some considerations
This version of Surfers Paradise (Roland Ehnström´s) had a problematic corner with many wheel contacts. The version I announced previously, Surfers Paradise 2007, for some reason didn´t work in any of my GP2 installs. Strange, because I´m sure I used this version in the last league.
Driver Phill Prix will change name from next race to Jill Prix
. Sorry Peze, when I received the message about the name change I just had saved the qualy
The video was made with low res VGA graphics, low detail and mostly taken from the cockpit, best option for more FPS. The original idea was recording video with SVGA and external cameras, but for some reason DOSBox performance was not good in my Win 10 laptop, so I used an old XP laptop slower in terms of CPU but faster for emulated GP2.
See the 100 % race raw video https://youtu.be/30IXy2Upabw