CWGT: AVUSrennen Sechs Stunden Live Thread

[TheStranger]

The 6 Hours of Avus is upon us, the second stop on the busy Crapwagon.com GT Series schedule, and Mr. Vengenace is fixing to continue on a winning streak after his bizarre win at the beautiful hills of Spa, in a scheduled 24 hour event that only lasted 46 minutes before the officials called it off due to the numerous amounts of crashes that clobbered the entirety of the field and caused several virtual millions of dollars worth of virtual damage.

The tough 1.64 mile Avus street course appears deceptively simple at first, but proves to be quite the challenge as many cars have been torn up on the Bremskurve chicane.

http://www.racingcircuits.net/Germany/Avus1992.html

There will be no NRTV broadcast, so all updates will occur via here.

[TheStranger]

Qualifying results are in, 89 degree weather outside in front of a packed crowd of road race fans. Mr. Vengeance did not get a good handle on the track and will be starting second to last only a day after his first ever win.

P # DRIVER TIME
1 44 FlyingbuckeyeC1 49.756
2 65 Caspar 49.782
3 49 Greg Pizzo 49.799
4 95 Dan Belcher 49.809
5 84 ctkatz 49.814
6 76 Scott 49.816
7 35 RobGuru 49.817
8 21 ABES 49.841
9 64 Mazza19 49.843
10 33 FCYTravis 49.850
11 30 Simracin40 49.859
12 60 mommymushbrain 49.859
13 75 Hosehead 49.878
14 85 TheStranger 49.888
15 57 Mr. Vengeance 49.888
16 7 denith 49.905

[TheStranger]

Pace lap now in progress.

At 5:10:20 the race has begun.

VERY close call on the first lap when Denith brushed the outside wall into Bremskurve, forcing Mr. Vengeance very precariously close to the tire barrier and Armco. Both cars made it safely.

[TheStranger]

0:07 - Mr. Vengeance and Hosehead are way behind, 12 seconds away from being lapped. Hosehead though is on a different pit strategy from the others, having pitted on lap 6.

MMB and myself were involved in the incident with Simracin40 on the second lap, and have no hoods now.

[TheStranger]

0:25 - MMB and myself continue to lurk in front of leader Caspar and 2nd place FlyingbuckeyeC1. Simracin40 and Denith are the only lapped vehicles as the former wrecked and the latter went into the pits early.

None of the lead lap cars (except for Hosehead, Mr. Vengeance and the two cars about to be lapped) have pitted and we've already hit 32 laps.

[TheStranger]

0:35 - OH! Mr. Vengeance has crashed into the tire barriers. Simracin40 was involved and is now behind the wall, while Mr. V's crew is repairing and hoping to salvage an already dismal day for the team.

0:39 - Mr. Vengeance's crew has told him to park it.

0:41 - Greg is the first lead lap car to pit on lap 49.

0:45 - After the pit cycle, top 3 is now Caspar-Greg-ctkatz. Denith just DNFed after clobbering the tires.

0:49 - Mazza19 just DNFed in that tire wall.

[denith]

I'm sucking. Ugh.

[TheStranger]

0:52 - Caspar, while leading, has just thwacked the tire wall.

1:00: Cars still running.

1 - Greg Pizzo (80)
2 - Dan Belcher (-2.381)
3 - RobGuru (-4.94)
4 - FCYTravis
5 - ctkatz
6 - ABES
7 - MMB
8 - Scott
9 - Hosehead
10 - me (1)
11 - Flyingbuckeye

1:06 - cars pitting, lap 83.

1:19 - Leader Dan Belcher pitting on lap 94.

[denith]

I'm out? Nooooooooooo! *cries on some conveniently positioned barrier*

[TheStranger]

1:40 - RobGuru pits; Dan Belcher leads.

[TheStranger]

1:47 - RobGuru has just crashed into the pit wall on his 128th lap.

1:53 - Dan Belcher pits in the lead, 23 seconds ahead of ctkatz, on lap 135.

Results after two hours:

1. ctkatz
2. Dan Belcher
3. Greg Pizzo
4. FCYTravis (end of lead lap)

146 laps complete.

[TheStranger]

2:27 - Lead lap cars have completed 175 circuits around Avus, with ctkatz having a 24 second lead on Dan Belcher, followed by the two GP Motorsports cars of Travis and Greg.

2:28 - The GP Motorsports cars pit, putting ABES in 4th a lap down behind Greg.

2:32 - ABES moves into 3rd with Greg going a lap down. ABES still is right behind leader ctkatz and if the #84 pits, ABES gets back on the lead lap easily.

[TheStranger]

2:38 - ctkatz pits on the beginning of lap 188; ABES gets his lap back while Dan Belcher retakes the lead.

2:45 - ctkatz regains the lead as Dan Belcher pits.

[TheStranger]

With 3:07 to go...

ctkatz leads Dan Belcher by 32 seconds, Greg Pizzo is 50 seconds back and last car on LL. ABES, Travis, Scott, Hosehead, myself and MMB are the last cars running.

[TheStranger]

3:42 - Corey has just wrecked out with Greg Pizzo at Bremskurve.

3:48 - ABES DNFed into that same tirewall.

[TheStranger]

AFTER 4 HOURS

1. Dan Belcher (284)
2. Scott -42.515
3. FCYTravis -1
4. Me -2
5. MMB
6. Hosehead

[Scott]

booooooooo yah! 2nd place!!!!

[TheStranger]

4:36 - Dan Belcher is a lap ahead of Scott and 2 laps ahead of Travis and Hosehead. He has three laps on myself and MMB.

[TheStranger]

WITH ONE HOUR TO GO

1. Dan Belcher (116.547 MPH, 355 laps)
2. Scott (1)
3. FCYTravis (2)
4. Hosehead
5. me (3)
6. MMB

5:01 - Travis has gained back a lap.

[TheStranger]

5:22 - A little over 1000 kilometers has been completed and the decimated field continues to roll on, now on the leader lap 383.

Dan still leads by a full lap over Scott, who is the only one just a lap down. Hosehead and Travis are two laps off, I am three laps down, and Mommymushbrain rounds out all the cars running, at four laps behind the leader.

5:23 - Dan Belcher pits!

5:31 - Scott pits, putting the lead back at a full lap.

[TheStranger]

5:46 - Dan Belcher pits again for his last stop, on lap 409. Scott regains his lap, again. The race is projected to go 427 laps.

[TheStranger]

The race has just ended, after 426 grueling laps, with Dan Belcher as winner.

http://img111.exs.cx/img111/3432/avus-results.jpg

FINAL RESULTS

1. #95 Dan Belcher (116.595 MPH, 426 laps completed, led 229 laps)
2. #76 Scott (1)
3. #75 Hosehead (2)
4. #33 FCYTravis (3)
5. #85 TheStranger (4)
6. #60 Mommymushbrain
7. #84 ctkatz (162, Accident, led 117 laps)
8. #21 ABES (162, Accident)
9. #49 Greg Pizzo (162, Accident, led 19 laps)
10. #35 RobGuru (300, Accident)
11. #44 FlyingbuckeyeC1 (356, Accident)
12. #65 Caspar (363, Accident, led 56 laps)
13. #64 Mazza19 (370, Accident)
14. #7 denith (374, Accident)
15. #57 Mr. Vengeance (383, Accident)
16. #30 Simracin40 (383, Accident)

There were 17 lead changes amongst 5 drivers, but Dan Belcher dominated the waning hours of the first ever CWGT AVUSRennen Sechs Stunden.

http://img111.exs.cx/img111/5181/avus-win.jpg

http://img110.exs.cx/img110/8397/avus-win2.jpg

[SimRacin40]

Apparently I just showed up to take last place money. :)

[TheStranger]

Apparently I just showed up to take last place money. :)

You actually crashed out, after receiving damage in the early going...

[TheStranger]

And here's my commentary and video capture of the 426th lap Dan Belcher completed, to become the second ever winner in CWGT competition:

http://ezshare.de/files-en/84119/CWGTAvus1.wmv.html (5MB)

To use the link: First, click on the URL above (it is an HTML, NOT the video), then when you see "Download: CWGTAvus1.wmv" on the page, use Save As with rightclick. Do NOT use a download accelerator like GetRight.

[RobGuru]

Hmmm... at least I made it longer than 31 minutes this time.

At this rate, I'll actually be finishing races close to the end of the season!

:p

[Dan Belcher]

All I have to say is...



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