TXT Racing Series Summer 2012 - 5th race!

Newcomers always bring something new to the race. Especially when newcomers are professional racers.

Yes, today we've had some new faces! They are new only for the series. Well-known racers you can remember by other racing associations came over to try to compete at one of the toughest tracks at 2RAW, famous by its two chicanes - Track 10.
Lots of bumping walls!!!
Ouch, let's start with the qualifying. We've got 2 participants you know already - it's Millennium Sands, our current leader, and Ρσмρσηία  ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon) who's currently on the 4th place. Grosmanteau DeCuir, Brave Ashbourne and Sharon Densmith - I bet you've heard those names before. They were the ones who brought the competition to the 5th race of our series!
I was expecting everything - those cars most probably were pretty new for our new participants. However, even though there were a couple of accidents with a flight mode we totally forgot to remove (I bring my apologies to all racers who had any inconvenience with that - you have my word, it will be removed by the next race!). Brave found the perfect way out - hitting all the keys helped to turn it off! (I recommend all the racers to write it down, who knows what kind of cars you'll have to deal with next time?)
Newcomers began their way of conquering the leadership from the practice - Sands, who always took the pole position, if you remember, had started 4th this time.
And then the competition began! DeCuir and Ashbourne were extremely close to each other, along with Sharon Densmith, who was 3rd at the start. Sands and LeMort simply couldn't keep up the competition! 
And - never without accidents. Densmith turned on the flight mode by accident and, while managing to turn it off, dropped down onto the 5th position at one of the first laps. Meanwhile, there was 2 fights - for the 1st place, between Second Life Grid legends and for the 3rd place, between TXT Racing veterans.
Nevertheless, Densmith started catching up with girls while Brave was getting rid of the flight mode - he lost a few seconds, but Densmith and others were too far away even for a chance to take advantage of it.
Lap 10. DeCuir remains 1st, with Ashbourne catching up and losing time, then catching up again. Densmith hit the flight mode again and couldn't turn it off - so she decided to drop out of the race. Sands began pulling ahead of LeMort.
Closer to the end of the race, they all have spread out - DeCuir on 1st, Ashbourne on 2nd, Sands on 3rd, LeMort on 4th - gaps between them were huge enough to exclude any changes.


What I have to say, that was the real competition, really exciting and interesting - especially with such a track where bumping walls is such a usual thing. If there weren't a problem with a flight mode, possibly the results would be different... Well, there won't ba any flight mode next time. Thanks everyone for coming, that definitely was fun - and hope to see you next week at the same time and most probably at the same place!


The grid:

Pole Position. Grosmanteau DeCuir  56.353
P 2. Brave Ashbourne,  57.760, -1.406
P 3. Sharon Densmith,  58.222, -1.868
P 4. Millennium Sands,  62.069, -5.716
P 5. Ρσмρσηία  ﾚεΜσгţ (Excess Lemmon),  63.591, -7.237


Final Results
1st. Grosmanteau DeCuir, 25 laps. Total Time : 1451.909
2nd. Brave Ashbourne, -10.427 seconds.
3rd. Millennium Sands, -1 laps.
4th. Excess Lemmon, -2 laps.
5th. Sharon Densmith, -16 laps.

Fastest race lap: Grosmanteau DeCuir, 56.368

And all the racers:

UPD 7/10/12: Sharon corrected me a little about an important moment of the race I've missed - thank you very much Sharon, highly appreciated!