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Hristo Itchov What a great race that was, but unfortunately it had a bad end. Practice and Qualifying went well and though I couldn't get near my pb after making a mistake on my last lap which had the potential, the more important thing was the setup felt consistent over a longer distance. The changes I made kept the tyres perfectly equal front to rear as well as within proper temperatures. Although I practiced a few starts in the pitlane it didn't work as good when the actual start was given as I kept it for too long in the high revs, perhaps misjudging other people's engines for my own, so Stacey went through and then I nearly put it into the wall going down at T3, but riding the bank wasn't as bad as I expected so I could keep 2nd infront of Oliver. The next couple of laps were spent getting some temperature in the tyres as well as putting pressure on Stacey who (again) opted for more downforce which meant he was losing time in the 2nd half of the lap and that was enough to undo any advantage he had in the first half. Add to that the slipstream effect and I was soon close enough to make a move. That came as expected on the s/f straight and Stacey chose not to go to the inside to defend it so I was through. I managed to break the tow back to him in a few laps and started pulling away but not by much. It soon became apparent that the fuel I put on might not be enough to reach the planned pitstop at half distance, so I added some preset amount for the mechanics to put in which would hopefully be enough for the 2nd half of the race. The plan was to stop before any backmarkers were reached and that nearly worked if it wasn't for fuel going too low too early and for a car appearing on the horizon, so I made a decision to stop 2 laps earlier. Because I did just one practice pitstop before the race I approached it cautiously and braked early, this time going into Neutral on time to avoid stalling, then carefully positioned it on the spot. Doing all that probably made those 3 seconds or more of an advantage that I had over Stacey disappear, but at least the fiasco from Kyalami wasn't repeated. Stacey went by and so did Oliver and Uwe! I guess I forgot to put them into the equation, thinking they would drop back enough for me to come ahead, but even though they were running more fuel that didn't happen and their closely fought out duel now continued to take place ahead of me. Stacey made his pitstop on the next lap and it became apparent he did an excellent one as he rejoined the track about a second ahead, JUST behind Uwe who was trailing Oliver by another second or so. Thus the greatest part of the race had begun. As expected, because fuel didn't make much difference to laptimes here, Stacey was soon all over Uwe, but Uwe's lack of downforce approach meant passing wasn't going to be easy. Defending from and battling with Stacey allowed me to close up on both of them very soon and we had some good bumper to bumper racing, but I didn't want to take big risks so had to back off on a couple of ocassions and let them decide it between themselves first. Stacey eventually made his way through and now I had the worry of passing Uwe myself as I didn't want to let Stacey disappear into the distance. Luckily with my medium downforce approach and with the help of slipstream I could attack Uwe and at the same time Oliver had more than enough pace to make it difficult for Stacey up ahead. The pass on Uwe came around the outside of T1 though I suspect he didn't want to take bigger risks as he backed off once we exited the corner side by side. Soon after that I closed up on Stacey and had a good run on the s/f straight, but this time he braked very late and managed to hold onto the outside line and keep his position! On the next lap I had another run and just as I pulled out of his slipstream to the right-hand side of the track Oliver was moving into the pitlane for his stop. This time I managed to brake a bit later and thus go ahead into the turn, so I was back in 1st. The next few laps were spent being careful with the tyres and wondering over fuel, until we came up to lap Michael. Going through the uphill after the hairpin I was closing up on him and when we came to the fast right on top of the 2nd hill he decided to let me through by moving to the inside on the exit. I held onto my line but suddenly there was contact and my car flew over to the left and over the dune, going into the air and then landing on all 4. I managed to get back on the track as fast as I could but by the time I finished the lap Stacey was 11 seconds up ahead. That went down to 8 seconds during the next lap which was probably down to Stacey having a problem of his own, but it didn't matter as there were 6 or 7 laps to go at the time. I decided to turn off all HUDs except revs and gears and just drive as fast as I can. It was only enough to reduce the gap to 5 seconds at the finish. Very disappointing... Grats to Stacey, Uwe and Oliver, who surprised all including himself with his qualifying and race pace.
Uwe Schürkamp
Detailed Race Report courtesy of Matthias Bögel
Event: Zandvoort GP 1967
Date: 2009/01/24 17:04:10
Laps: 32
Mod: BMW320_E21
Race Length: 47:30.754
QUALIFYING RESULTS
1 Hristo Itchov Team John Player 11 01:25.392 0.000
2 Stacey Greensall Team Rothmans 8 01:26.083 0.691
3 Oliver Day Team Schnitzer Racing 6 01:26.325 0.932
4 Uwe Schuerkamp Team Rummel 6 01:26.354 0.961
5 Chris Turbert Team Goesser Beer 10 01:26.501 1.109
6 Matthias Boegel Team Glysantin 9 01:26.594 1.202
7 Andrew Ward Team TRF NIL 8 01:27.158 1.766
8 Dave Purdy Team Neumann 10 01:27.559 2.167
9 Christoph Grimlowski Team Yellow Corn 11 01:28.302 2.910
10 Paul Godfrey Team Yellow Corn 2 01:28.415 3.023
11 Michael Ward Team Baier Motorsport 8 01:28.446 3.054
12 Phil Barnes Team Sachs Sporting 10 01:29.056 3.664
13 Eldred Pickett Team Buler 10 01:29.206 3.814
14 David Goodwin Team John Player no time
RACE RESULT
1 Stacey Greensall Team Rothmans 32 2 Running
2 Hristo Itchov Team John Player 32 1 Running
3 Uwe Schuerkamp Team Rummel 32 4 Running
4 Oliver Day Team Schnitzer Racing 32 3 Running
5 Matthias Boegel Team Glysantin 32 6 Running
6 Paul Godfrey Team Yellow Corn 32 10 Running
7 Dave Purdy Team Neumann 31 8 Running 1 Lap(s)
8 Chris Turbert Team Goesser Beer 31 5 Running 1 Lap(s)
9 Michael Ward Team Baier Motorsport 31 11 Running 1 Lap(s)
10 Eldred Pickett Team Buler 31 13 Running 1 Lap(s)
11 Christoph Grimlowski Team Yellow Corn 31 9 Running 1 Lap(s)
12 Phil Barnes Team Sachs Sporting 31 12 Running 1 Lap(s)
13 Andrew Ward Team TRF NIL 24 7 DNF (DNF) 8 Lap(s)
14 David Goodwin Team John Player 22 14 DNF (DNF) 10 Lap(s)
FASTEST RACE LAPS
1 Hristo Itchov 01:25.514 0.000
2 Stacey Greensall 01:26.263 0.749
3 Uwe Schuerkamp 01:26.967 1.453
4 Oliver Day 01:27.163 1.649
5 Chris Turbert 01:27.261 1.747
6 Andrew Ward 01:27.418 1.903
7 Matthias Boegel 01:27.579 2.065
8 Dave Purdy 01:27.748 2.233
9 Paul Godfrey 01:28.078 2.564
10 Michael Ward 01:28.394 2.880
11 Eldred Pickett 01:28.990 3.475
12 Christoph Grimlowski 01:29.006 3.491
13 Phil Barnes 01:29.102 3.588
14 David Goodwin 01:29.108 3.594
HIGHEST CLIMBERS
1 Paul Godfrey 4
2 Eldred Pickett 3
3 Michael Ward 2
4 Uwe Schuerkamp 1
5 Stacey Greensall 1
6 Matthias Boegel 1
7 Dave Purdy 1
8 Phil Barnes 0
9 David Goodwin 0
10 Oliver Day -1
11 Hristo Itchov -1
12 Christoph Grimlowski -2
13 Chris Turbert -3
14 Andrew Ward -6
PERFECT RACE LAPS*
1 Hristo Itchov 01:25.392 0.000 [14, 2, 2]
2 Stacey Greensall 01:25.927 0.535 [9, 3, 6]
3 Uwe Schuerkamp 01:26.463 1.071 [24, 11, 15]
4 Oliver Day 01:26.892 1.500 [27, 26, 6]
5 Andrew Ward 01:27.064 1.672 [6, 10, 8]
6 Chris Turbert 01:27.068 1.676 [26, 4, 5]
7 Matthias Boegel 01:27.210 1.819 [22, 23, 3]
8 Dave Purdy 01:27.214 1.822 [4, 16, 19]
9 Paul Godfrey 01:27.898 2.506 [13, 5, 13]
10 Michael Ward 01:27.982 2.590 [8, 24, 5]
11 Eldred Pickett 01:28.462 3.070 [27, 27, 30]
12 Christoph Grimlowski 01:28.552 3.160 [21, 6, 3]
13 David Goodwin 01:28.754 3.362 [7, 4, 1]
14 Phil Barnes 01:28.810 3.418 [7, 6, 2]
*: three best sector times are added [lap numbers]
RACE INCIDENTS
1 Eldred Pickett 0 31 0.000
2 Stacey Greensall 0 32 0.000
3 Oliver Day 1 32 0.031
4 Uwe Schuerkamp 2 32 0.062
5 Hristo Itchov 3 32 0.094
6 Paul Godfrey 3 32 0.094
7 Michael Ward 4 31 0.125
8 Andrew Ward 5 24 0.156
9 Phil Barnes 5 31 0.156
10 Dave Purdy 6 31 0.188
11 Christoph Grimlowski 9 31 0.281
12 Chris Turbert 11 31 0.344
13 David Goodwin 13 22 0.406
14 Matthias Boegel 16 32 0.500
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D/L Mod
| # | Name | Pts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stacey Greensall | 108 |
| 2 | Hristo Itchov | 104 |
| 3 | Joachim Lueg-Althoff | 68 |
| 4 | Uwe Schürkamp | 55 |
| 5 | Lars Strijdonck | 53 |
| 6 | Oliver Day | 35 |
| 7 | Matthias Boegel | 30 |
| 8 | Chris Turbert | 24 |
| 9 | Dave Purdy | 21 |
| 10 | Paul Godfrey | 14 |
| 11 | Dominique Leste | 7 |
| 12 | Christoph Grimlowski | 6 |
| 13 | Matthias Vogt | 5 |
| 14 | Glenn White | 4 |
| 15 | Juergen Wohleser | 4 |
| 16 | David Goodwin | 3 |
| 17 | Richard Busch | 3 |
| 18 | Eldred Pickett | 1 |
| 19 | Don McCorkle | 0 |
| 20 | Steve Brunt | 0 |
| 21 | Phil Barnes | 0 |
| 22 | Todd Dry | 0 |