Annie Gufler takes 3rd straight in Round 3---
Another 40+ peeps crowded into the viewing room at a race track to partake in the current FormulaSL season, this time the venue is the venerable Snowpeach , owned by Count and Bibi Bayliss, long time contributors, supporters and participants in RaceSL.
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32 racers entered the que to qualify for the 26 spots in the 4 races. Yuriko Nishi got her first FormulaSL pole position, in her bid to catch the runaway AM PRO driver Annie Gufler.
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As always after qualify then a short break its time to run the races..first of the day is Group D , with Alice Racing veteran Darko Revnik on pole. Darko didnt have too good a start recieving some heavy contact and finished in 7th . This race belonged to Ram Pharoah , who got in the lead lap 4 and didnt look back . 2nd was Strife Leominster, 3rd was Nella Boccara. Saori Otsuka put on a very good performance in this race, Leading for 3 laps then chasing Ram for a bit , but falling behind out of 2nd finishing in 5th .
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Group C ...may have been one of most back and forth battles weve seen in awhile..Stang Voom , Suzy Cuddihy and Remon Franizzi battled up front for most of this 20 lap race. Stang led for the first 2 , then fell way back for a bit after a early pitstop ,while Remon took over for 5 laps untill it was time for pits.
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Stang led again untill spinning out , Suzy Cuddihy took over and was looking like she was cruising to a win, when she had a incident with traffic, a close battling Stang and Remon got by her, and battled each other in finals laps..Remon was just 1.6 seconds behind at lap 19, but Stang held on for the win, finish order of Stang, Remon, Suzy, Ram and Strife Leominster in top 5 .
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Group B was all about how good a driver can get with enough practice, and in this case im talking about Shoshin ace Molly Fitzgerald . Her B race from pole this round was exciting and skill filled, dodging traffic, pitting well, and a back and forth battle with zT top cheese Stang Voom.
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Molly led 15 laps and Stang led 10, but in the last part of the race it was all Molly and the battle was between Stang and InDrive Racing driver Caz Freschi . Caz was by into 2nd for laps 21 to 23 , but spun allowing Stang by for 2nd and the the advance.
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Group A ...well lets see...Yuriko got pole ...then ...well my memory is a little blurry i just drove and finished where i did , id put a more detailed recap here...but im not sure anyone knows exactly what happened..mayhem .
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The story of the A race was prolly Silk Bamboos awesome early chase of Annie after getting by the early mayhem . 11 laps Silk kept good pace with her , kept her in sight . Eventualy falling behind , but never out of 2nd , finishing 2nd , i finished 3rd , Jafo 4th , Yuriko 5th . Annie led the entire race eventualy lapping everyone atleast 2 times ..most of the field got lapped 3 times or more.
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Impressive stats for season leader Annie Gufler ...after 3 races and 21 opponent finishes...only 1 time did someone finish on lead lap, Yuriko in Round 2. Currently Annie is 1st, Yuriko 2nd, Jafo 3rd...Archer hangs onto the team lead , with Am Pro close behind , InDrive in 3rd. Next saturday is round 4 at Racers island .
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