Round 4 - Monaco (Monte Carlo)

ACE SERIES

1996/97 Pole Position:	1:11.681 (Oliver Roberts)
1996/97 Race Time:	1h40m17.238 (Oliver Roberts)
Race Distance:	78 laps

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Points
1.	Markus Kruggel	Wild 13	1:11.594		20
2.	Oliver Roberts	Digitech	1:12.096	+0.502	16
3.	Steffen Diener	Roadrunner	1:12.158	+0.564	14
4.	Alan Strang	Team Ecosse	1:12.375	+0.781	12
5.	Jan Svehlik	Bolgani	1:12.414	+0.820	10
6.	Nuno Maltez	Rocketship	1:12.440	+0.846	8
7.	Michal Janak	Digitech	1:12.498	+0.904	6
8.	Marco Saupe	M-SPEED	1:12.517	+0.923	5
9.	Reinhold Schatzer	Rocketship	1:12.630	+1.036	4
10.	Ignacio Garcia	Curb Crawlers	1:12.852	+1.258	3
11.	Eik Hoffmann	Red Diana	1:12.972	+1.378	2
12.	Thomas Bodlien	M&T-Speed	1:12.983	+1.389	1
13.	Axel Bruns	Wild 13	1:13.023	+1.429
14.	Rafal Ziarnik	Yapamotox	1:13.084	+1.490
15.	Mark McCubbin	McCubbin-Supreme	1:13.206	+1.612
16.	Anthony Long	P76 Racing	1:13.608	+2.014
17.	Mirko Patzenbein	EnigmaRacing	1:13.992	+2.398
18.	Scott Dryden	Team Ecosse	1:14.504	+2.910
19.	Argyris Maistralis	Crash Heads	1:14.542	+2.948
20.	Hendrik Mehl	Crash Heads	1:15.179	+3.585
21.	James Luscombe	V-Tec F1	1:15.750	+4.156
22.	Jonathen Stead	Team Sted	1:16.770	+5.176

Michal Janak showed all other drivers ho to cope with wet conditions in a race. With more than 1:30 ahead of Oliver Roberts and Reinhold Schatzer, you can imagine that he was never in danger of not finishing first. But behind Michal, things were developing rapidly: Nuno Maltez, on 3rd and 2nd position for a long time, had an accident in lap 58 and retired 2 laps later. Marco Saupe, promising 4th until lap 64, lost 3 places after a crash, and finally, Reinhold Schatzer who was constantly keeping Oliver behind him for 19 of the last 20 laps, lost his position in the very last lap of the race. Spectators were not only puzzled by the fact that Digitech went a way with a double-victory again, but also that both drivers made a pit-stop without the need to repair their cars.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Points
1.	Michal Janak	Digitech	1h59m13.489		180
2.	Oliver Roberts	Digitech	2h00m55.681	+1:42.192	170
3.	Reinhold Schatzer	Rocketship	2h00m57.425	+1:43.936	165
4.	Jan Svehlik	Bolgani	2h01m53.387	+2:39.898	160
5.	Steffen Diener	Roadrunner	2h02m20.404	+3:06.915	155
6.	Axel Bruns	Wild 13	2h02m26.617	+3:13.128	151
7.	Marco Saupe	M&T SPEED	2h02m26.842	+3:13.353	147
8.	Alan Strang	Team Ecosse	2h02m37.855	+3:24.366	143
9.	Ignacio Garcia	Curb Crawlers	2h02m52.790	+3:39.301	139
10.	Markus Kruggel	Wild 13	2h02m54.293	+3:40.804	135
11.	Eik Hoffmann	Red Diana	2h04m13.930	+5:00.441	132
12.	Mirko Patzenbein	Enigma Racing	2h05m04.433	+5:50.944	129
13.	Rafal Ziarnik	Yapamotox	-1 lap		126
14.	Anthony Long	P76 Racing	-1 lap		123
15.	Mark McCubbin	McCubbin-Supreme	-2 laps		120
16.	Argyris Maistralis	Crash Heads	-2 laps		117
17.	Hendrik Mehl	Crash Heads	-2 laps		114
18.	Scott Dryden	Team Ecosse	-3 laps		111
19.	Martin Devine	Enigma Racing	-3 laps		108
20.	Thomas Bodlien	M&T-Speed	64 laps	(82.1%)	86
21.	Nuno Maltez	Rocketship	60 laps	(76.9%)	78
22.	James Luscombe	V-Tec F1	19 laps	(24.4%)	24
23.	Jonathan Stead	Team Sted	2 laps	(14.8%)	2

Fastest Lap: 1:28.094 - Michal Janak (Digitech)

Race Statistics

Pos	Car	Driver	Fastest Lap		LL/TL	Pitstops		Avg. Grip	Tyre Usage
Pos	Car	Driver	Time	Lap #	LL/TL	Stops	Avg. Length	Avg. Grip	W
1.	2	M.Janak	1:28.094	76	62/78	1	0:14.866	57	78
2.	1	O.Roberts	1:28.330	78	0/78	1	0:16.253	57	78
3.	14	R.Schatzer	1:29.021	75	10/78	1	0:36.434	57	78
4.	21	J.Svehlik	1:30.395	72	0/78	0		57	78
5.	36	S.Diener	1:29.038	72	6/78	1	0:38.380	57	78
6.	8	A.Bruns	1:30.024	77	0/78	0		57	78
7.	45	M.Saupe	1:29.258	73	0/78	1	0:45.679	57	78
8.	5	A.Strang	1:29.612	60	0/78	1	0:40.561	57	78
9.	24	I.G.Cuadrado	1:30.022	63	0/78	0		57	78
10.	7	M.Kruggel	1:29.177	72	0/78	1	0:41.812	57	78
11.	29	E.Hoffmann	1:29.965	66	0/78	1	0:43.645	57	78
12.	31	R.Ziarnik	1:29.261	76	0/77	4	0:43.846	57	77
13.	20	A.Long	1:31.886	73	0/77	2	0:43.928	57	77
14.	50	M.McCubbin	1:30.773	58	0/76	6	0:39.923	57	76
15.	15	A.Maistralis	1:32.356	69	0/76	0		57	76
16.	16	H.Mehl	1:31.877	75	0/76	1	0:53.978	57	76
17.	6	S.Dryden	1:31.888	67	0/75	5	0:40.090	57	75
18.	39	M.Devine	1:30.974	71	0/75	7	0:37.652	57	73
19.	46	T.Bodlien	1:30.739	63	0/64	0		57	64
20.	13	N.Maltez	1:30.049	60	0/60	1	0:52.506	57	60
21.	25	J.Luscombe	1:36.819	16	0/19	1	0:43.557	57	19
22.	37	J.Stead	1:39.138	2	0/ 2	0		57	2

Action Replays

Ignacio Garcia Cuadrado (Curb Crawlers):
"I was in "La Rascasse" when a car appears in front of me ... but in wrong direction !! ;-)) Ha ... I was a lucky man ;-))"
Steffen Diener (Roadrunner):
"Last Lap: I made contact with a car at Nouvelle Chicane. The CC gets sideways, I am trapped on the track, and about 10 cars are approching right behind us, ready to crash into this scene."
Michal Janak (Digitech):
"In replay you can see one of my best overtaking manoeuvres. I overtook Irvine and Marques in one step in Nouvelle Chicane (the 1st corner behind tunel). Try to look at it from different points, best is from Irvine's cockpit."

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Last modified: Saturday 17 January 1998 - 16:24

Round 4 - Monaco (Monte Carlo)

Qualifying

Race (wet)

Race Statistics

Action Replays