What a race here in Ultima. The circuit proved to be one of the season´s best and J. Woldenberg fought to the end to win the second overall place in the championship with Roberto Remedio, who had it in his hands. But today the DTRW - Viper was faster, while The Stig made his first podium and Marcio Schiavon closed a last race wich gives a new hope for M.S.R. Andreas Schulz was fifth and an incredible Markus Rotter crossing the line with a water leak. Matt O´Donell and on of his best races in the 7th place. And Todorov? He couldn´t enter in the points.
Start of the last race of the season. Todorov does a bad start and Remedio and J Woldenberg passed before entering the first corner.
A crash in the first corner. Antonio Pessoa is punted by one of the AS-TK F1 - BMW. On the brazilian driver´s way out of the track, he collected Jurate Gemskyte. Both cars crashed into the wall. Pessoa was out of the race and Gemskyte continued.
The postions in the first meters. J Woldenberg, Remedio, Todorov, R Woldenberg and The Stig.
Roberto Remedio and the first attempt to overtake J Woldenberg.
On lap 2 J Woldenberg started to make a gap over Remedio. And now was Todorov who attacked Remedio. Note The Stig overtaking R Woldenberg, behind.
Andreas Schulz did some strange movement over Dan Richards on the first corner. They touched wheels in a high speed chase. Fortunatelly there was no problems. See MAtt O´Donell position.
One of the many attacks of Todorov over Remedio. This track is beautifull but is one of those hard to pass.
The Minarae cars wanted to say goodbye to the year with a good race. This is Joe Rotter overtaking Nuvolari.
The two leaders were the first cars to enter into the pits. Todorov was first for a while.
Untortunatelly for DRTW, R Woldenberg abandoned the race with an electrical problem.
This was a key move in the race. Remedio -with the only good set of tires remaining- overtaking J Woldenberg for the lead. At this point, the brazilian was the second in the championship.
Now J Woldenberg had fallen a few meters behing Remedio and Todorov started a siege over the dutchman with the cars welded.
Schiavon overtakes O´Donnell at the end of the straight.
Andreas Schulz and the same bad move, touching wheels with another car in the first corner. This time, the victim was Matt O´Donnell. And again the good luck of not having a huge accident. The marshalls gave a 5 seconds penalty over Schulz for two dangerous moves.
Second round of pitstops. Remedio, the first man to pit.
Todorov returned to the track behind Dan Richards, after his own pitstop. But the bulgarian team had a bad strategy with his driver. He pitted very late in the race. Also Todorov had very bad luck of finding Richards on his way. He lost precious time and couldn´t overtake J. Woldenberg, while the dutchman was into the pits. While Todorov reached the pit exit, Woldenberg was returning to the race.
Now to speak. Stig was 17 seconds in front of Remedio.
Woldenberg started to gain seconds against Remedio in a thrilling chase, with Todorov behind.
Todorov decided to enter pits (I think was the last car to do it). Clearly a bad strategy as I said before. He returned in 13th position.
Now Woldenberg is closing with Remedio! and trying to take the second position in the league.
And he went through.
While all this happened, Todorov was fighting with Joe Rotter. The Minarae driver recovered against the bulgarian and overtaked in an odd place in the track.
Incredible Markus Rotter crossing the finish line with the car almost on fire. He stopped a few meters ahead.
And J Woldenberg wins this awesome race
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Race Results ³
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³ Ultima GP - Ultima ³
³ (35 Laps) ³
³ Pos Driver Time/Speed ³
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³ 1st Jurg vd Woldenberg 1h 14m 09.173s ³
³ DRTW - Viper ³
³ 2nd Roberto Remedio +4.505s ³
³ Caccere - Holden ³
³ 3rd The Stig +10.607s ³
³ M.S.R. - Honda ³
³ 4th Marco Schiavon +21.648s ³
³ M.S.R. - Honda ³
³ 5th Andreas Schulz +29.653s ³
³ AS-TK F1 - BMW ³
³ 6th Markus Rotter +32.856s ³
³ Minarae - Misfire ³
³ 7th Matt O'Donnell +35.708s ³
³ SME Racing - Mercedes ³
³ 8th Jens Dings +37.225s ³
³ AD - Heave ³
³ 9th Rickard Alingas +40.992s ³
³ K-Speed - Honda ³
³ 10th Dan Richards +41.463s ³
³ PixelDreams - Cosworth ³
³ 11th Georgi Todorov +41.550s ³
³ TeamBulgaria - Mercedes ³
³ 12th Joe Rotter +43.810s ³
³ Minarae - Misfire ³
³ 13th Nuri Hummels +46.141s ³
³ ADAC RaceCom - Mercedes ³
³ 14th Jurate Gemskyte +49.955s ³
³ PixelDreams - Cosworth ³
³ 15th David Stunnenberg +50.561s ³
³ Simtek - Ford ³
³ 16th Emerson dos Santos +51.559s ³
³ Liberty - Chevrolet ³
³ 17th Petri Karttunen +1m 17.316s ³
³ Peze Team - Cosworth ³
³ 18th Thomas Kost Transmission ³
³ AS-TK F1 - BMW ³
³ 19th Tim de Klein Electrical ³
³ Simtek - Ford ³
³ 20th Leonardo Barbosa Transmission ³
³ Caccere - Holden ³
³ 21st Tazio Nuvolari Engine ³
³ Peze Team - Cosworth ³
³ 22nd Rick vd Woldenberg Loose Wheel ³
³ DRTW - Viper ³
³ 23rd Henning Fisser Transmission ³
³ ADAC RaceCom - Mercedes ³
³ 24th Nico Weidlinger Transmission ³
³ K-Speed - Honda ³
³ 25th Alex Diehl Electrical ³
³ AD - Heave ³
³ 26th Antonio Pessoa Didn't Finish ³
³ Liberty - Chevrolet
And thanks to all of you who kept and eye in this league. Next year, the GP2RW will comeback... stay tuned.