2005 Canadian Grand Prix

[Saturdaynight]

Ok, everyone, here is the official thread for the 2005 Canadian Grand Prix. Sorry for such a short week do to the Monaco fiasco. I will allow for race Submitions up to monday at midnight, board time.

[vodkamartini1]

My laps are already submitted

[Saturdaynight]

Canada Qualifying Results so far!

Dalby 1:28.124
King 1:29.647
Glanville 1:30.177

Congrats Dalby to the provisional Pole! d**n good job!

Looks like we've got an official race! At least three drivers have completed ten laps! That's enough to fill the podium!

Now we just need to wait for the rest of the field to submit their laps!

[Saturdaynight]

I was actually quite happy with my laps. I can't wait to see how they fair against everyone else's laps! I have a feeling we are going to have quite a race!

[vodkamartini1]

just waiting for Ricky to come along and steal my thunder!
Hopefully we will have a good race on our hands, will I finailly beat Saturday...who knows!?

[wizard]

Gutted about my laptimes. No excuses though, was very happy with the handling in my car. But i would have been so fast in the dry. I think montreal was only real chance of winning a race, even against my teammate!!

Anyway, good luck for the race dudes. Glad we have a race this weekend

[Mαττ]

im confident with my laps, i think (not having seen anyone's race pace) i stand a good chance to score some solid points.

always liked the wet racing.

[Saturdaynight]

Canada Qualifying Results as of Sunday afternoon!

Finlay 1:25.915
Dalby 1:28.124
King 1:29.647
Glanville 1:30.177

Matt! OMG! WHAT A QUALIFYING LAP! INCREDIBLE!!! EXCELLENT WORK!!!!

Looks like the rest of the field has it's work cut out for them!

[Saturdaynight]

Final race results won't be in until Tuseday as I won't be around tomorrow. It's Memorial Day here in the states! The unofficial start of summer!

[Viper]

I'm not racing...I'm on the process of building a new PC and I have a test tomorrow afternoon, so I'm without time right now. I'm not leaving for now. Once the new PC is here, I'll probably want to see how GP4 works on it, so I'll probably be back again If all goes well, it should happen this week Besides, it's not like I can't win the champ yet

[Lex]

vodkamartini1 said:

just waiting for Ricky to come along and steal my thunder!

Well I guess you'll wait too much.........






Don't think I'll come back. My life is a bit of mess now, I'm finding it hard to get things settled and also, I've uninstalled GP4 and have no idea of where the CD is.

[Saturdaynight]

Welcome race fans to 2005 WSRC Canadian Grand Prix. It turned out to be another rainy day for the series but this time things got underway smootly. Here is how they will sit on the grid. Matt Finlay takes his first pole of the season and right along side him is Iain Dalby. In row two is Lonnie King followed by Brian Glanville. The race is on! Finlay gets away cleanly as teammate Lonnie King overtakes Iain Dalby on the first lap. Brian
Glanville comes across the line in 4th. Lap two sees Finlay 3 seconds ahead of his teammate and Dalby 3 seconds behind King. Glanville, now ten seconds back has not had a good start to this race. Lap three, Finlay extends his lead to five seconds of King. Dalby sits six seconds back and Glanville is now 21 seconds back. Lap four, Finlay now 8 seconds ahead of King and in turn King leads Dalby by the same margin. Glanville is now 22 seconds back. Lap five, the mid way point and Finlay Rips out a fantastic lead of 13 seconds over his teammate and Dalby gains a second back, now only seven seconds behind king. Glanville, is 23 seconds back. This performance is definately not what we expected from Team Arrows and team Porsche are suprising everyone! Lap six, Finlay leads King by 15
seconds. Dalby is 16 seconds back after a mishap on that lap. Glanville gains some ground and is now 18 seconds back. Lap 7, Finlay is now 19 seconds ahead of King. Dalby sits 17 seconds back from King and Glanville is 33 seconds back. Lap 8, Finlay is 21 seconds ahead of King and Dalby holds steady at 17 seconds behind King. Glanville, 22 seconds back, must be furious that he cannot keep up! Lap 9, Finlay holds is 21 second lead over King. Dalby sits 21 seconds back and Glanville has fallen way back after that last incident. The Final Lap, Finlay wins his first GP of the year and King insures the first one-two finish for Team Porsche. Dalby finishes third and Glanville finish fourth. A wet race in
Canada has brought quite a suprise to the WSRC season. Things definately look good for Team Porsche.

Fastest laps of the race

Finlay 1:27.145
King 1:28.367
Dalby 1:30.297
Glanville 1:32.660


I'll post the post race press conference in a while. Finlay, Congratulations and welcome to victory lane!

[Saturdaynight]

The Post race Press Conference.

WSRC - Welcome gentlemen to the 2005 Canadian GP post race press conference. You guys put on a wonderful show today. Finlay, Congratulations on winning your first WSRC GP and on the week of your Birthday no less! Quite the birthday suprise! Tell us what you are feeling right now.

WSRC - King, congratulations for second and for your teams first win of the season. Tell us about the opnening laps

King - Well, there isn't much to tell. Dalby slowed up a bit on the start and I was able to slip by. From there I just focused on keeping the car on the track as it was a bit tricky. My hats off to my teammate, for such a fantastic drive today!

WSRC - Dlaby, Your on the poduim for the first time this season! How does it feel? tell us what happened on the first lap?

WSRC - Finlay, How did you come up with such a brillaint strategy? Team Porsche has been a mid field team all year and now both cars finish first and second.

WSRC - King, your thoughts on Finlay's victory?

King - I never would have thought Team Porsche would be sitting in this possition today. Not so soon anyway! We haven't shown the best pace all season and for us to come away with this win is incredible! We beat the odds! Finlay, has shown to be a fine wet race driver! *King looks over to Finaly* Where did you pull this performance out of? LOL! *Pat's him on the shoulder* Job well done Matt!!! Anyway, it shows that persistance pays off. I was about to leave the world Championship in Monaco, but this performance has reinvigorated the team.

WSRC - Dalby, What are your thoughts on the results of this race, both for your team and the overall finishing results?

WSRC - King, With this finish, Team Porsche has now been bosted into seconds place in the constructors title! Tell us yout throughts?

King - We knew that we were going to have a tough time keeping up with some of the drivers in this series. But a win like this helps us a lot. If we can keep performing like this, we've got a good chance at the constructors title. As for the drivers title, we've still got our work cut out for us. Glanville, Vincenzi and Rocha are well ahead of us. I think I trail Glanville by 7 points I think. Still anything can happen and the season is still young.

WSRC - Finlay, your closing thoughts on the win here today?

[Saturdaynight]

Here is how the series results look at this point in the season.

Drivers title

Diogo Vincenzi - 38
Brian Glanville - 37
Henrique Rocha - 36
Lonnie King - 31
Iain Dalby - 24
Matt Finlay - 14


Constructors title

Arrows - 73
Porsche - 45
Audi - 38
KDR - 24
Nokia - 19

[vodkamartini1]

WSRC - Dlaby, Your on the poduim for the first time this season! How does it feel? tell us what happened on the first lap?

I have to say that it is nice to finally have a podium, though in the circumstances some might say it is not as much deserved if there wer emore of the field out there, but I hav eput in the effort and managed to pull off a third place in wet conditions, which my car doesn't seem to take to too well, so I have to say it feels very good. In regards to the firs tlap it was pretty dissapointing as you can imagine. I was too worried the car wouldn't turn that well into the first chicance as well as the tight turn 3, so I tip-toed a little too much and I paid for it by the end as I was always playing catch-up.


WSRC - Dalby, What are your thoughts on the results of this race, both for your team and the overall finishing results?

Delighted to get more points on the board for both the team and myself. Delighted to have finished such a wet race, and I am lookign forward to the next Grand Prix, and also most likely some testing at our home track of Silverstone to further develop the car - maybe the pole position will be achieveable by the next race, who knows....