Session 535 - Donington Park, United Kingdom

November 29, 2009 02:23pm

Race

Quick Stats

Track Length: 3.988 km
Most Distance Covered: 3 laps, 11.964 km
Simulator Used: GTR2

Race report: Losel Racing Demands Investigation After Horta Crushes Donington GT2 Field

Losel Racing issued a press release this morning that reads as follows:

Fernando Horta completed three laps of Donington Park in 4 minutes and 53.680 seconds, winning the GT2 sprint by 11.059 seconds over Jozef Venc and leaving the remaining seven Porsche GT3-RS drivers behind in an inexplicable deficit. Horta’s best lap of 1:35.142 in the Coca-Cola Endurance Racing #99 car was over three seconds faster than second-best Gerold Ried (1:38.295) and nearly six seconds clear of Rudi Penders. Losel Racing hereby lodges a formal protest regarding the fuel composition and aerodynamic legality of car #99. Effective immediately, our entire engineering staff has been relieved of duty for failing to notice that Leicestershire has completely lost its sense of pace.

Following the statement, team leadership held an emergency press gaggle behind the Donington paddock building.

Biff Slander (Paddock Enquirer): Flavor Flav, your team was nowhere near the front, yet you are demanding a complete teardown of Horta’s car. Is this a legitimate technical protest or just anger over an 11-second margin?

Flavor Flav (Losel Racing Hype Chief): Yaaaah boy! Do you see this giant clock around my neck? Look at it! It says 4:53.680! Horta didn't drive through the Goddard chicane, he folded space and time! You got Jozef Venc and Gerold Ried fighting over seven tenths for second place in the 1:38s, and this man is floating around in 1:35? That ain't motorsport, that's magic! Time is my business, and somebody is stealing seconds!

Otto Korrekt (GTR2 Technical Digest): Mr. Lackson, official data shows all eight competitors were running identical Porsche GT3-RS machinery. What specific irregularity are you accusing the winning team of using?

Samuel J. Lackson (Losel Racing Team Principal): I have had it with these motherfucking fast laps on this motherfucking race track! You sit there with your clipboard asking me about identical machinery? If the cars are identical, why was the rest of the grid driving like they were looking for parallel parking while Horta was tearing through the Craner Curves? A three-second single-lap gap is not setup, it's pure, unadulterated disrespect!

Paige Turner (Motorsport Weekly): Will Losel Racing boycott the next round if the race stewards refuse to act on your filing?

Samuel J. Lackson (Losel Racing Team Principal): We will show up, but if someone drops another 1:35 on us while the rest of the field is stuck in 1:39 land, I am personally inspecting every air intake with a heavy flashlight. Press gaggle over. Get out of my pit garage.

Disclaimer: This is a fictional, satirical report of a offline race against AI-driven opponents. All characters are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

Classification

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Gap	Best Lap
1	FERNANDO HORTA	COCA COLA ENDURANCE RACING TEAM	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	0:04:53.680	1:35.142
2	JOZEF VENC	MACHANEK RACING	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 11.059	1:39.648
3	GEROLD RIED	PROTON COMPETITION	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 11.791	1:38.295
4	HORST FELBERMAYR JR.	JVG RACING	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 13.125	1:39.170
5	RUDI PENDERS	EBRT	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 14.085	1:40.927
6	JENS PETERSEN	JP RACING	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 14.936	1:39.769
7	HORST FELBERMAYR	PROTON COMPETITION	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 17.341	1:38.925
8	ANTONIO DE CASTRO	AB MOTORSPORT	PORSCHE GT3-RS	3	+ 17.828	1:38.675

Qualifying

Qualifying times as the race log recorded them.

Position	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	RUDI PENDERS	EBRT	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:33.328
2	FERNANDO HORTA	COCA COLA ENDURANCE RACING TEAM	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:33.599	+0.271
3	GEROLD RIED	PROTON COMPETITION	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:33.820	+0.492
4	ANTONIO DE CASTRO	AB MOTORSPORT	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:33.877	+0.549
5	JENS PETERSEN	JP RACING	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:34.212	+0.884
6	HORST FELBERMAYR JR.	JVG RACING	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:34.295	+0.967
7	JOZEF VENC	MACHANEK RACING	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:34.485	+1.157
8	HORST FELBERMAYR	PROTON COMPETITION	PORSCHE GT3-RS	1:34.527	+1.199

Lap Chart

Position at the end of every lap, FERNANDO HORTA highlighted. Hover a line or a name to follow a driver, click or tap to keep it highlighted; dashed lines are cars that retired.

Leaders

FERNANDO HORTA led every lap.

Lap	Leader	Laps	Took the lead from
1	FERNANDO HORTA	3 (1-3)

Driver	Laps led	%
FERNANDO HORTA	3	100%

Lap by Lap

Each lap's notable moments, quiet stretches grouped; tap a row for the full order with lap times and gaps. The logs don't record pit stops: they're worked out from lap times, so a spin that costs as much time can read as one.

Lap 1FERNANDO HORTA leads from pole

Pos	Driver	Lap time	Gap	Interval
1	FERNANDO HORTA	1:41.797
2	JOZEF VENC	1:44.640	+2.843	+2.843
3	RUDI PENDERS	1:45.638	+3.841	+0.998
4	GEROLD RIED	1:46.264	+4.466	+0.625
5	HORST FELBERMAYR JR.	1:47.161	+5.364	+0.898
6	JENS PETERSEN	1:47.713	+5.916	+0.552
7	HORST FELBERMAYR	1:49.441	+7.644	+1.728
8	ANTONIO DE CASTRO	1:50.130	+8.333	+0.689

Lap 2Fastest lap: FERNANDO HORTA 1:35.142

Pos	Driver	Lap time	Gap	Interval
1	FERNANDO HORTA	1:35.142
2	JOZEF VENC	1:40.451	+8.152	+8.152
3	RUDI PENDERS	1:40.927	+9.626	+1.474
4	GEROLD RIED	1:40.913	+10.237	+0.611
5	HORST FELBERMAYR JR.	1:40.474	+10.696	+0.459
6	JENS PETERSEN	1:41.134	+11.908	+1.212
7	HORST FELBERMAYR	1:42.655	+15.157	+3.249
8	ANTONIO DE CASTRO	1:42.703	+15.894	+0.737

Lap 3nothing notable

Pos	Driver	Lap time	Gap	Interval
1	FERNANDO HORTA	1:36.742
2	JOZEF VENC	1:39.648	+11.058	+11.058
3 ▲1	GEROLD RIED	1:38.295	+11.790	+0.732
4 ▲1	HORST FELBERMAYR JR.	1:39.170	+13.124	+1.334
5 ▼2	RUDI PENDERS	1:41.200	+14.084	+0.960
6	JENS PETERSEN	1:39.769	+14.935	+0.851
7	HORST FELBERMAYR	1:38.925	+17.340	+2.405
8	ANTONIO DE CASTRO	1:38.675	+17.827	+0.487