The final round of the Trans-World Radical Racing 2010 Spring series took place at Homestead Miami Speedway Road Course B.  The championship would not be decided until this race.  Read on to find out what happened.

Qualifying commenced at 18:30 GMT.  Bogdan Cosofret and Rik Walker were dukin' it out for pole position.  Bogdan posted the fastest time with 1:12.181, three tenths of a second faster than Rik.  Patrick Bolster also managed a sub 13 qualifying 3rd with Dave Kadlcak alongside in row 2.  Leo Landman and Baz West occupied row 3 of a field 5 rows deep.

Pole sitter Bogdan got a better start than outside frontman Rik and easily took the lead. Both Rik and Patrick did not get the most ideal of the starts, and gave 4th place qualifier Dave the opportunity to slip into 2nd behind Bogdan.  Lap 1 was good and clean.

The next few laps were a little rough.  Bogdan slips up in turn 8 on lap 2, and gives up the lead to Dave.  Further down we have the battle in the midfield.  After a bad start Leo is behind Baz.  On lap 3 he tries to go inside of Baz into turn 4 which results in some prolonged fender and wheel banging.  Eventually Leo muscles his way past Baz exiting turn 5.  Kat takes sees the opportunity and has a better run down to turn 6 than Leo.  Not aware of Kat, Leo slams the door and both suffer damage.

Few laps later Patrick and Baz start to develop a little battle for 4th place.  He gets by Baz but gives it up again a few laps later on lap 8.  Leo is unable to drive the damaged car, and unable to fix the damage for some reason so he decides to park it for good on lap 12.  Bogdan takes over the lead on lap 13 when Dave screwed the exit out of 4.  Rik gets by Dave in turn 9 and both have a little battle for 2nd place on the next lap.  Eventually they settle in the qualifying order except that Baz is in 4th and Patrick in 5th.  The field spreads out.  Patrick is able to dial in on Baz and they fight for P4 for the final 15 laps or so.  Patrick is finally able to get by Baz on lap 29 as they drag race from turn 6 through turn 7 all the way to turn 8.  On the next lap, Patrick throws away all this effort and loops it in the 2nd half of the oval.

Rik wasn't making it that easy for Bogdan and stayed in his shadow until the end.  Bogdan won his 2nd race of the season by less then 2 seconds ahead of Rik.  Third place was awarded to early leader Dave Kadlcak, over 22 seconds behind the leader.  Congratulations Bogdan on your win!  Also many congratulations to Rik Walker on his 2nd championship of the Legends League iRacing series.  Very well done mate!

 

Green green green!

Bogdan leads the field into turn 2, Dave is challenging 2nd place.

Bogdan slips up in T8, and concedes the early lead.

Leo uses the Dale Sr. technique to force his way past Baz for 4th place in turn 4 on lap 3.

Sorry Kat, Leo's door is closed for business - Leo shuts the door on Kat going into 6 on Lap 3.

Lap 6, battle for 4th, Patrick goes under Baz in turn 4.

Lap 13, Dave gets out of shape exiting 4 and Bogdan has more speed through 5 to take over the lead.

Lap 14, Rik and Dave battle it out for 2nd, minor contact in turn 6 as Rik loses tiny bit of momentum.

Lap 21, Baz holding on the 4th place like there is no tomorrow.  Patrick works hard to try slipping under Baz in turn 3.

Rik goes [out of control] into turn 8 lapping Patrick and Baz on lap 25.

Lap 29, battle for 4th continues - drag race down to T8.

After finally passing Baz on the previous lap, Patrick loops it on lap 30 in the oval and drops to 5th.  Dave tries the same maneuver as Patrick.

Checkered flag!  Bogdan takes win number 2 home leading 21 of the 32 laps!  Congratulations!

Shortly after, we have the new champion finishing in 2nd place.  Break out the champaign!!!

Qualifying Results

Pos	Driver	Time	Interval
1	Bogdan Cosofret	1:12.181
2	Richard Walker	1:12.501	-00.319
3	Patrick Bolster	1:12.976	-00.794
4	David Kadlcak	1:13.380	-01.199
5	Leo Landman	1:13.528	-01.346
6	Barry West	1:14.159	-01.978
7	Katier Scott	1:14.409	-02.227
8	Keith Lawrie	1:14.680	-02.499
9	Ray Walton	1:15.223	-03.042

 

Race Results

Pos	(Grid)	Driver	Laps	Led	Gap	Average Lap Time	Fastest Lap Time	Incidents	Points
1	(1)	Bogdan Cosofret	32	21		1:13.576	1:12.831	0	30
2	(2)	Richard Walker	32	0	-01.780	1:13.617	1:12.721	0	24
3	(4)	David Kadlcak	32	11	-22.700	1:14.255	1:12.888	5	20
4	(6)	Barry West	31	0	-1 L	1:16.424	1:14.893	7	17
5	(3)	Patrick Bolster	31	0	-1 L	1:17.042	1:13.857	11	16
6	(8)	Keith Lawrie	31	0	-1 L	1:17.582	1:15.714	7	15
7	(7)	Katier Scott	30	0	-2 L	1:18.114	1:15.437	6	14
8	(9)	Ray Walton	29	0	-3 L	1:21.343	1:15.100	12	13
9	(5)	Leo Landman	10	0	-22 L	1:18.520	1:14.035	9	12

Fastest Lap:  Rik Walker, 1:12.721
Highest Climber:  Barry "Baz" West, 2 positions gained

Driver of the day award:  Kat Scott

Again this time I had a few drivers to pick from.  For one all those guys keeping it clean of contact and those that struggled but stayed with it.  Kat kept it clean but was victimized by a brute door slammer, yet she kept at it and didn't give up.  Running a damaged car is usually frustrating.

 

Link to official iRacing results is here.

This round concludes the TWRR 2010 Spring season.  A big thank you to all that participated on a regular basis, and we hope everyone enjoyed the sim racing.  Hopefully we'll see you next season.

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