Round 12 - Italy (Monza)

Qualifying Race Descriptions Report Mixed Log

Qualifying

  1. Oliver Roberts 		Digitech 		1m15.519
  2. Reinhold Schatzer 		Team Schatzer 		1m15.616
  3. Rene Smit 			Nightmare on Pit Lane 	1m15.724
  4. Hans Gunnar Hansen 	Virtual Trundle 	1m15.833
  5. Patrick Giesbergen 	Grinder 		1m16.085
  6. Alan Strang 		Digitech 		1m16.337
  7. Stephen Orr 		Ant Hill Mob Racing 	1m16.382
  8. David Pennington 		Nightmare on Pit Lane 	1m16.449
  9. Michal Janak 		Magia-Chrysler 		1m16.461
 10. Markus Kruggel 		Wild 13 		1m16.663
 11. Peter Daas 		Sunny Coupe 		1m16.759
 12. Axel Bruns 		Wartburger Rennpappe 	1m16.899
 13. Juha Hyvonen 		F.O.R.T.-Jiuqi 		1m17.272
 14. Andrew Clark 		Ant Hill Mob Racing 	1m17.573
 15. Uwe Schuerkamp 		BMS Racing 		1m18.173
 16. Paul French 		The Spacemen 		1m19.691

Race - 53 Laps

  1. Michal Janak 		Magia-Chrysler 		1h11m09.830	20 
  2. Patrick Giesbergen 	Grinder 		1h11m44.033 	16
  3. Oliver Roberts 		Digitech 		1h11m45.804 	12+1
  4. Rene Smit 			Nightmare on Pit Lane 	1h12m02.769 	10
  5. Alan Strang 		Digitech 		1h12m31.982 	 8
  6. Robert Romanowski 		BMS Racing		1h12m40.124 	 6
  7. Graham Hawkins		Blue Flame		1h12m40.506	 4
  8. Hans Gunnar Hansen 	Virtual Trundle 	1h12m46.871 	 3
  9. Axel Bruns 		Wartburger Rennpappe 	1h13m08.051 	 2
 10. David Pennington 		Nightmare on Pit Lane 	1h13m11.696 	 1

 11. Markus Kruggel 		Wild 13 		1h13m45.028 
 12. Peter Daas 		Sunny Coupe 		1h13m50.270 
 13. Juha Hyvonen 		F.O.R.T.-Jiuqi 		1h14m38.392 
 14. Uwe Schuerkamp 		BMS Racing 		  -1 lap 
     Stephen Orr 		Ant Hill Mob Racing 	  -1 lap 
     Paul French 		The Spacemen 		  -1 lap
 17. Reinhold Schatzer 		Team Schatzer 		  43 laps 
 18. Robert Schaftlein 		Red Five Renault          24 laps

Monza provided a major shock as Rene Smit only qualified on the secod row. The honour of starting first on the grid went to Oliver Roberts, earning himself a potentially valuable point.

The race, however, didn't go so well for Roberts, as he finished only 3rd. Roberts blamed this result on not playing F1GP for over 6 weeks. The words 'at', ' 'straws' and 'clutching' come to mind! :) Luckily for Roberts, Smit finished behind him, allowing the gap in the championship to actually be increased.

Two seconds ahead, in 2nd place, was Grinder's Patrick Giesbergen, equalling his best result of the season which he had achieved at Mexico. This result, though, was eclipsed by Michal Janak, who won his first race of the season by an impressive 34 seconds.

Digitech's challenge for the Constructor's Championsip was helped by Alan Strang's 5th place, his best result since Brazil.


Last modified: Tue Jun 4 12:51:41 BST 1996