Checquered Flag is waved!!!
Both qualifying and race were dominated by Ferraris. Only one to stand against them was Jordan's Daniel Higgins. Hackel realises his car getting slower and losing pace race by race. Mike starts a crisis in Minardi. Renault aims for Bell.
Lap by Lap Report
Start: Pole Sitter Bogdan moves ahead of Higgins, while Davakos and Kapal fights for the 3rd place. After the turn 1, the order is Bogdan, Higgins, Kapal, Davakos, Clancy, Hackel, Bell, Duivelaar, Gardiner, Gutteridge, Gamberini.
Lap 3: Kapal overtakes Higgins at the last chicane. Ferraris are flying.
Lap 7: Bell's engine fails, he enters to garage.
Lap 11: A strange team radio between Clancy and Eddie Jordan:
'Hey Eddie, please stop sending Samantha before the races'
'What???!!!'
'Oh whatever!'
'*** you! Drive the **** car!'
'Ok ok! Oh dear!'
Lap 14: And another strange team radio at Red Bull.
'Davakos, consantrate please, you are losing time mate'
'Sorry guys, i'm still thinking about the level i'm stucked'
'What?! Level where?!'
'Half life, darn! Perhaps i should use god mode'
'................'
'Should i use god mode?'
'...............'
'Oh ok ok i see...'
Lap 20: Hackel overtakes Clancy. Clancy raises his hand, and doing an inapprotiate hand gesture to Hackel.
Lap 21: Hackel sets the fastest lap. Gardiner's Minardi starts to go slow. Bell returns to race.
Lap 22: Gamberini's engine fails. Higgins, Davakos and Hackel fights for the 3rd position.
Lap 31: Higgins sends Davakos to the sands. Davakos loses some time.
Lap 33: Bogdan and Hackel pits. Kapal is the new leader.
Lap 35: Kapal sets the fastest lap. Higgins is also going faster.
Lap 38: Higgins pits and comes ahead of Bogdan. Eddie Jordan seems to be happy on pitwall.
Lap 41: Kapal pits and comes 10 seconds ahead of Higgins. Bogdan comes closer to Higgins. Hackel also chases Bogdan.
Lap 47: Gardiner's engine is getting bad. Team tells him 'Go slower, go slower, or engine will die. Protect the engine.' Then Rhys replies 'Will you let me to race??'.
Lap 49: Duivelaar sets the fastest lap tries to overtake Clancy.
Lap 51: Kapal's front left tyre blows but he is on the last turn and he directly enters to pits. And he comes back ahead of Higgins.
Lap 55: Hackel goes out and returns to track while trying to overtake Bogdan.
Lap 57: Duivelaar overtakes both Davakos and Clancy but at the last chicane he spins and lost the 2 positions.
Lap 58: Kapal wins an amazing race. His 2nd victory! Ferrari makes a double podium with Bogdan coming 3rd. Both Jordan and Ferrari passes Honk Racing at the Constructor's championship.
Mike Bell argues with Stoddart after the race. He hates too much engine failures. There are some rumours about he may transfer to Renault. We will see...
- O.Kapal -------- Ferrari ------------ 58 Lap
- D.Higgins ------- Jordan ----------- +14.241s
- A.Bogdan ------- Ferrari ----------- +19.214s
- T.Hackel ------- Honk Rac --------- +23.341s
- G.Davakos ------ Red Bull ---------- +41.135s
- B.Clancy -------- Jordan ----------- +43.184s
- P.Duivelaar ------ Sauber ----------- +47.123s
- M.Gutteridge ---- Honk Rac --------- +1 Lap
- M.Bell ----------- Minardi ----------- +19 Laps
- R.Gardiner ------- Minardi ----------- +21 Laps