Finish to the Blackwood 150
June 6, 2016 at 10:27 pm,
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Rolling start, and they're off!
The LCS Endurance event, The Blackwood 150, got underway, with the grid order looking like this:
1: HunterHei
2: Luigi
3: Gaz
4: Texas
5: Evolution8
6: MoNsTeR / DNQ
7: ltras23 / DNQ
8: Kumail / DNA
9: SeanLau / DNA
10: IPSO / DNA
11: MateCZ / DNA
HunterHei, powered his XRG Mitsubishi Starion to pole position, a full second clear of second placed Luigi, in his less powerful XFG Citroen AX GTi. Gaz and Texas rounded out the top 4, with Evo scraping in as the last qualifier.
The race began, with Hunter romping away in the race lead. ltras retired, for unforeseen reasons. Gaz, Texas and Luigi fought for 2nd place, while MoNsTeR took a early 1st pitstop, attempting to leapfrog the leaders.
Hunter had built a 15 second lead in a little over 10 laps, and all the while, MoNsTeR was closing up in his XRG. He had closed up the gap to around 4 seconds to Texas, before Luigi took a a wild ride through the grass, beaching himself in the kitty litter, ending his - what was eventful and short, race. The leader's first pitstops took place shortly thereafter.
MoNsTeR elevated himself into 3rd place, with Gaz and Hunter yet to stop ahead.
As Hunter's pit window approached, he had built up such an enourmous lead over Gaz and MoNsTeR, that when he emerged, he was still over 2 seconds of a buffer ahead of the Singaporean driver.
Gaz had pitted, dropping him back into the clutches of Texas.
MoNsTeR was slowly catching Hunter, before he lost control heading into turn 5, ending his race, just short of the halfway mark.
The race carried on, with no further events, with Hunter assuming a gigantic lead, and with only 3 remaining survivors, the race ended, with Hunter grabbing his maiden win in a LCS League Event.
Final results
1: HunterHei / 75 laps completed
2: Gaz / 75 laps completed +49.6
3: Texas / 74 laps completed +1 lap
4: MoNsTeR / RET Lap 35 (technical)
5: Luigi / RET Lap 16 (crash)
6: Evolution8 / RET Lap 2 (technical)
7: ltras23 / DNS
8: Kumail / DNA
9: SeanLau / DNA
10: IPSO / DNA
11: MateCZ / DNA