soft worker

2011 FiHS F1 World Championship

Round 4: Shanghai

April 15, 2011

A forgettable race for me in China. Less than a hundred laps of practice and I was expectedly way off the pace and made plenty of mistakes. At least I was able to keep my zero incident record, five straight races now I think.

Polesitter JoshJ leads the pack into the Turn 1. Good job in qualifying for the STRs as both drivers JeffO and Seb Scott make it into Q2.

Ricardo "Speedy" Gonzalez in the McLaren takes the lead from Josh in the Red Bull at the hairpin. StevenM  in the other Red Bull (subbing for J Kim) and RacerScott in the Ferrari are not far behind.

Sebastian Scott runs ahead off the trailing pack in his Toro Rosso. Bad luck would strike him yet again, this time in the form of a black screen of death.

Some incidents involving Mat Harto of Team Lotus, championship points leader over at USF1 league. Maybe it is his aggressive style and divided attention between two series that is making him a crash magnet.

Stuff in the Williams gets out of shape and gets in the middle of another epic RS vs RG battle.

Key point in the race: the wizard StevenM comes out of the pits ahead of the furious battle between RicardoG and RacerScott.

The dark horse is a Red Bull ... Steven Matthies, aka Merlin takes the win in China.