IRTA - Catalunya
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Jerez
2.
Losail
3.
Istanbul
4.
Shanghai
5. Le Mans
6.
Mugello
7. Catalunya
8.
Assen
9. Donington
10. Sachsenring
11. Laguna Seca
12. Brno
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14. Phillip Island
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16. Estoril
17. Valencia
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News 12/11/06
Round 16.
Portugal : Estoril
SFW bounces back in Portugal to take his 4th win of the season.
A fourth victory of the season for SFW was achieved in spellbinding
fashion by the Kawasaki rider, who has struggled to come back from a
crash at Motegi. SFW took the holeshot and continued to pull away from
the pack, at one point 5 seconds ahead of second placed rider SkiDer,
who had a rather more difficult time battling with Seby.
In the early stages, Skider led the race thanks to an amazing lap time
in qualifying which secured him the pole-position with Seby in second
and SFW in third. In the second lap Seby fell down but rejoined the
race in third position, 2 seconds behind the leading group. Six laps
later Seby fell again while he was in a close battle with SFW.
Meanwhile Skider was leading by 4-5 seconds to SFW but a miracle
happend, in the penultimate lap, Skider fell down exactly in the same
spot as Seby. SFW was the only rider who kept his head down and managed
to profit from Skider's and Seby's mistakes to take his first race
victory in over 3 months and stop Skider's winning march of 7 victories
in a row.
Remarkable finish by Rezist who passed the chequered flag in 12th spot,
his best result of the year.
Seby:
"Congratulations SFW, Skider and all who raced.
This has been a sad weekend for me, I fell 2 times in my race. With 4
bikes in the race my game had less fps than offline and I couldnt do 1
good lap during all weekend, I was more than 0.5 slower per lap in
official race than in practice. I feel bad because my performance is
affected by the PC which doesnt help me anymore, I'll have to upgrade
my ram and proc for next year.
The only good thing is that I got podium after I fell 2 times, I dont
remember this heppening before to any1 so its a premiere.
The fight for 2nd spot (vice-champion) is also 95% over, with this
victory SFW is 16 points in front of me with 1 race to go, I would need
a victory and him to finish 8th. I doubt SFW will have a bad race at
Valencia, he is the winner from last year and he really loves this
track.
I cant wait for next season to start. New physics, some new tracks, a
new pc for me, I also have base setups, I'll use the pedals from the
begining of the year and much more practice so I'm sure it will be
better for me."
rezist:
"hehe Skider and Seby crashed but still made the podium!
WD SFW!!! Victory finally!
12th is a nice surprise for me... looks like I will get my top 30
finish to the season lol.
I really only made one big mistake in the race, on the fast
right-hander I went too wide and onto the grass, but I lost probably 3
seconds, not too bad.
But my laptimes (35-36s) were very average, not what I was hoping
for... but this is a nice result, I suppose I should thank most ppl
behind me for crashing hehe."
Only 21 riders made it to the race, making them all score points for
those who raced! WELL DONE!
Report by TT98 & Seby
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