Round 6 - Mexico (Mexico City)

Qualifying Race Descriptions Report Mixed Log

Qualifying

  1. Grant Reeve                Nightmare on Pit Lane   1m09.353
  2. Rene Smit                  Nightmare on Pit Lane   1m09.364
  3. Reinhold Schatzer                                  1m09.367
  4. Graham Hawkins             Blue Flame              1m09.570
  5. Oliver Roberts             Digitech                1m09.833
  6. Hans Gunnar Hansen         Virtual Trundle         1m09.850
  7. Robert Romanowski          BMS Racing              1m09.986
  8. Pedro Celli                Senna Team              1m10.007
  9. Alan Strang                Digitech                1m10.098
 10. Patrick Giesbergen         Grinder                 1m10.100
 11. Robert Schaftlein          Red Five Renault        1m10.111
 12. Axel Bruns                 Wartburger Rennpappe    1m10.332
 13. Markus Kruggel             Wild 13                 1m10.454
 14. Nuno Maltez                                        1m10.507
 15. Jason Hess                 Red Five Renault        1m10.651
 16. Uwe Schuerkamp             BMS Racing              1m10.955
 17. Chris Iveson               Abbots                  1m11.097
 18. Niclas Norenheim           Crawford                1m11.233
 19. Michal Janak               Magia-Chrysler          1m11.609
 20. Peter Daas                 Sunny Coupe             1m11.747
 21. Paul Robins                Stephenson Rocket       1m11.883
 22. Mr.Tom                     Taxipower               1m11.906
 23. Andrew Clark               Ant Hill Mob Racing     1m12.146
 24. James Smith                Team Blitz              1m13.213
 25. Paul French                The Spacemen            1m14.536

Race - 69 Laps

  1. Rene Smit                  Nightmare on Pit Lane   1h26m29.122     20
  2. Patrick Giesbergen         Grinder                 1h26m57.572     16
  3. Oliver Roberts             Digitech                1h27m04.351     12
  4. Graham Hawkins             Blue Flame              1h27m05.449     10
  5. Grant Reeve                Nightmare on Pit Lane   1h27m16.332      8+1
  6. Hans Gunnar Hansen         Virtual Trundle         1h27m26.799      6
  7. Reinhold Schatzer                                  1h27m31.997      4
  8. Michal Janak               Magia-Chrysler          1h27m38.171      3
  9. Jason Hess                 Red Five Renault        1h28m01.631      2
 10. Axel Bruns                 Wartburger Rennpappe    1h28m05.802      1

 11. Markus Kruggel             Wild 13                 1h28m08.345 
 12. Robert Schaftlein          Red Five Renault        1h28m19.969 
 13. Pedro Celli                Senna Team              1h28m21.437
 14. Robert Romanowski          BMS Racing              1h28m25.371
 15. Peter Daas                 Sunny Coupe             1h29m39.530 
 16. Uwe Schuerkamp             BMS Racing              1h29m43.167
 17. Mr.Tom                     Taxipower               1h29m50.852
 18. Paul Robins                Stephenson Rocket       1h31m13.623 
 19. Paul French                The Spacemen              68 laps
 20. Andrew Clark               Ant Hill Mob Racing       65 laps
 21. Alan Strang                Digitech                  -5 laps
 22. Nuno Maltez                                          62 laps
     James Smith                Team Blitz                62 laps
 24. Niclas Norenheim           Crawford                  15 laps
 25. Chris Iveson               Abbots                     DNF

Mexico completed the trilogy of festive races, and proved to be a fairly uneventful race for those who could be bothered attempting it. Of the 25 starters, a healthy 18 finished the race.

Yet again, the Nightmare duo dominated qualifying, this time Grant Reeve starting on pole.

It was his teammate Rene Smit, however, who took control of the race, getting the fastest lap of the race on the way to victory, almost half a minute ahead of Patrick Giesbegen. This was Giesbegen`s first points finish of the season, and he seemed to surprise himself as much as everyone else, reporting `an incredible race - I never crashed!` Nightmare`s Reeve reminded everyone that he could complete an entire race by finishing 5th, his first points finish since USA.

Special note should be given to DigiTech`s Alan Strang, who appeared to take great inspiration from fellow Scot David Coulthard`s performance at Adelaide by ending his race in the pit lane! Hmmm.

Despite another podium finish, Oliver Roberts has dropped to 2nd in the Drivers` Championship, three points behind new leader Smit. The championship now looks like being a straight battle to the end between these two drivers.

Although he`s no longer leading, Roberts is the only driver to finish all six races in the Top 10, winning one. Smit has managed five Top 10 finishes, including two wins. Hans Gunnar Hansen, Axel Bruns, Michal Janak and Graham Hawkins have all finished in the Top 10 four times.


Last modified: Fri Mar 22 10:35:10 1996