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May 20, 2008 at 15:54 o\clock

Round 1 race report

The final race was different situation compare with the qualify.

I thought that final race become more competitive than qualify session.
It is vitally if I missed the start or lost the position in the chaos of first few laps.


This race was held in the early March and the race day was not so hot.
I tried to keep the tire temperature as high as possible in the formation lap.
I placed my machine in the 2th position and concentrated to the signal.
Then signal turned on and soon turned off !The race was started !!

My start wasn`t bad but 3th position driver [NO34] show the great  start, and I lost one position at the first lap.
The chaos of first lap forced some driver to retired at the first corner.
So the yellow flags were waved at the first corner.
The first corner was the only passing point of the Suzuka East course.

We had to keep  our position each other until the yellow flags were canceled.
After  4 or 5 laps ,the flags were disappeared.

Soon the 2th position No34 driver passed the car number 1 machine, and become the top.
The order of top3 was NO34-NO1-me.
These three machines have a good race pace compare with other driver,so we raced far from other competitor.

But in the middle of race, the pace of the [No1] driver who was in front of me became gradually slowly.
His tire was wore and it seems to very uncontrolable.
But his machine has good straight speed and I couldn`t catch him easily.
No34 driver could run clearly, so the difference between him and our became almost 5 seconds.

I managed to catch No1 at lap 16,but repassed at the first corner of lap 18.
I tried to catch him again but it was to short to overtake him.

I could get my first podium, but there is a lot of problem I have to solve.

Race photo will update soon.