TXT Racing Series Summer 2012 - 4th race!

2RAW progresses every day. We try, we fail, we try again and succeed, and it never stops.
Same with racing.

Today's race definitely wasn't the biggest one, but I must say - it was one of the most beautiful races I've ever seen in Second Life. And an unpredictable one, too!

Lining up

Unfortunately, there was one loss - it was Dr. Möbius (lowrez), who crashed right after the start, so there were only 3 racers. The con is obvious - every participant left us with a trophy!

Millenium Sands has showed a great self-possession again. Cameron Geordie, who got into the fight for the 1st place with her, shot ahead and was going 1st at the first laps, but nevertheless Sands didn't let him get too far away from her, and it paid off - she took the leadership in a couple of laps and started drawing out.

Due to the fact Geordie lost a few seconds, he and Ρσмρσηία  ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon), who was a few seconds down too, got into a fight for the 2nd place, in which Geordie was leading almost all the time - LeMort was hitting the walls a lot. Once she took the 2nd place, but stuck in the wall very badly on the 14th lap - and Geordie passed by increasing the gap between him and LeMort to 6 seconds.
Then there was a moment when Geordie started catching up with Sands, but it didn't last too long.
Closer to the end of the race, every racer got about 15 seconds room towards each other - then Geordie hit the wall on a high speed on the 23th lap and dropped down in the time, taking himself right before LeMort passed by. The competition between him and LeMort has restored, until the very finish that was unknown exactly who's going to win. But after all Geordie finished second - with only 4 seconds gap between him and LeMort.


I cannot skip the qualifying round, too, where all the racers have showed the impressive results - the difference between their times was amazingly small, you'll see it in the stats.
Great job everyone, and congratulations winners - one step closer to the win of the series!


Race director: K.T. Burnett (KayT)
Race director assistants: Firefly Pau, Urantia Jewell, M (mmmm Whybrow)

Grid positions/Qualifying times:

Pole Position. Millennium Sands  53.777
P 2. Dr. Möbius (lowrez),  54.066, -0.289 - retired
P 3. cameron Geordie,  54.123, -0.346
P 4. Ρσмρσηία  ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon),  54.343, -0.565

Final Results:
1st. Millennium Sands, 25 laps. Total Time : 1362.574
2nd. cameron Geordie, -29.427 seconds.
3rd. Ρσмρσηία  ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon), -33.132 seconds.
Fastest race lap: cameron Geordie, 53.256

Race overview:
According to what we have seen at previous races, that was pretty obvious that Millenium Sands won't have a lot of opponents - as always, it was more interesting to follow what happened behind her. But apparently Cameron Geordie would have had a chance, if he have been more accurate at the turns, same can be addressed to Pomponia. High speed needs to be handled - you lose way less letting off at the turns than trying to pass them scratching the wall. However, that was a pretty unpredictable one at first, when Geordie took the leadership - if he kept this up, Sands would probably have to redouble her efforts!