After a successful round in Monaco, we headed to Canada for our home race in Formula Challenge. Here is our Race Report.
Leaving the Principality of Monaco, STAX Racing remained second in the Teams’ Championship with 196 points, behind Red Arrow Racing (263 points) and in front of Royal Blue Racing (130). Despite not scoring any points last time out, Adrian Campfield was sixth in the Drivers’ Championship while Chris Shepherd (2nd) decreased the gap to Championship leader Chris Butcher to only 10 points.
In Qualifying, Chris set the fourth fastest time ahead of his teammate Adrian. However, due to penalties, he started the race from P20, while Adrian was promoted to P3.
Race 1: Adrian started the race between the two Red Arrow cars, behind Butcher and Williams and ahead of Jundt. In the opening laps, Butcher and Williams were quickly able to build a gap to Adrian. But after the battle for P1 started to intensivy, Adrian caught up to his countrymen. Jundt meanwhile followed Adrian closely the whole time, until he made a small mistake in the first chicane. After two DNFs and one DNS in the last races, Adrian finished the race on the podium in P3.
As previously mentioned, Chris started the race in P20. He had a very good start and a strong first lap, crossing the line in P15. In the following laps, he passed Balint Hammer and Davison and closed the gap to Andriamiharisoa ahead of him. He passed the Madagascarian driver on the outside braking for the hairpin. Three laps later, he gained another place when Leonov spun exiting Turn 9. Chris then tried to get into the Top 10, but outbreaked himself in the hairpin, resulting in a half-spin, loosing a place to Andriamiharisoa. Shortly after that, Chris crossed the finish ending the race in P12. Right after the race, Chris was upset that a driving error cost him one or two positions, however his spin turned out to be a blessing in disguise when P12 was the winning number for the reverse grid draw.
Race 2: Adrian started the second race of the day from P10, again between the two Red Arrow cars, albeit it this time with Jundt ahead of him instead of Butcher. After drifting wide on T5 and touching the barriers, Adrian lost a position to Butcher in the following corner, but was able to overtake both Jundt and Chodha seconds later. On the third lap, Adrian successfully attacked Butcher from a long way out going into the hairpin, but was unable to defend against the Championship leader down the long backstraight, going into the final chicane.
While fighting with Butcher, Adrian went wide on the outside of the chicane, touching the barriers for a second time this race. In the following laps, he closed the gap to Butcher again, until, on Lap 7, he missed his breaking point and rear-ended the Red Arrow driver. Butcher was able to continue the race, but Adrian spun and resumed the race down in 16th place. On Lap 13, he attacked Davison going into the final chicane. Again, there was contact (both with Davison and the Wall of Champions), but this time Adrian flipped the car and retired soon after.
Chris meanwhile dominated the race: Starting the race from Pole Position, he quickly was able to build a gap to the two Shift Gear Racing cars behind him. After the race, he told the team that he would have been able to drive even quicker laps, but he decided not to push his luck and instead tried to bring the car home in one piece. However, even after “not pushing too much”, he finished the 18-laps-race almost 12 second ahead of second placed Bart De Vos!
After our home race, STAX Racing remains second in the Teams’ Championship with 242 points, behind Red Arrow Racing (333 points) and in front of Royal Blue Racing (168). With P3 in the first race, Adrian Campfield defended his sixth place in the Drivers’ Championship. Chris Shepherd (2nd) now is 11 points behind Championship leader Chris Butcher.
The next round of the season will be held on May 22nd, 2018 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France. As always, you can find the broadcast and the results tables of the last round below.
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