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F1 Headed to China, on one of the most demanding circuits of the season, several double and triple apex corners. Tight turns and a long straight that will see top speeds well over 300km/h.This race saw some new comers to F1 racing this year,  that hold a lot of experience namely the Rizzos, Francarlo and Ross both leading GT3 drivers and Druan Nikora leader of the V8 Supercar series.

This was setting up to be a great battle on the track and was certainly going to give Scott Daniels, Jaycie Richards, Shane Gilfeather and Adam Gill a good contest.

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 Obviously a lot of Foxing was going on through practice as the guys seemed to drop a lot of time as they fired in their times in the short 5 min qually. It was Francarlo who would start from P1 and Duran closing out the front row.

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The race got under way Francarlo, Ross and Duran all got away cleanly and lead the field into turn 1 followed by Shane, Jaycie and Adam . Matt DeGroot and Michael Donnellan were in 7^th and 8^th the Scott who didn’t get the greatest of starts found himself in 9^th and Mikel Lindsaar and Jacob Rankin rounded out the field.

Lap 10 and everyone was racing cleanly. Francarlo had etched out a 6 sec lead from Duran, who was followed by Ross in 3^rd. Jaycie and Shane were battling for 4^th and 5^th. Adam held 6^th followed by Michael. Matt was sticking to his game plan and driving consistently in 8^th. Scott in a very unfamiliar position was in 9^th and he was trying to recover from the early mishap that resulted in an early pit stop. Mikel and Jacob were doing their best against the demanding circuit.

Lap 18 saw Francarlo on fresh rubber where he set the fastest lap of the race so far with a 1.41.168, Ross was in the same position and didn’t want to be outdone and also cracked a low 1.41.285. This helped set him up to take 2^nd from Nikora on the next lap as they passed the start finish line.

Lap 23 saw Francarlo dive off into the pits and Ross stayed out to take the lead the lead was relinquished back to Francarlo on the next lap. Jaycie was putting in some fast laps. After the 3^rd pit stops the Francarlo 1^st, Ross 2^nd, Nikora 3^rd, Jaycie 4^th, Shane 5^th, Adam 6^th, Michael 7^th, Scott 8^th, Matt 9^th, Mikel 10^th and Jacob had retired.

After the race it was apparent that Scott Daniels had run the entire race on a full load of fuel giving away 130kg weight disadvantage. He can strike this one off to experience and use it as one of his dropped rounds.

Race ended with Francarlo taking the win followed by Ross in 2^nd and Nikora in 3^rd. Great racing and now we look forward to Bahrain.

By Sam Owen.

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