Semi Finals 1/2B

Semi Finals 1/2B
Originally uploaded by phlim.

Compared to the A group, racing action here is rather subdue. The reason being that all the drivers here were very well matched. Once they pace out each other, they pretty much stayed the say throughout the 20 minutes. If I remember well, the fastest lap time came from Raul Peris at 50.XXX seconds. Raul held steady throughout with an average lap time of between 52 and 53+ seconds. One interesting watch here is that we have 4 drivers from Taiwan in this final. Wu-Chung is the favorite and he did very well and qualified for the Grand Final. In the last minute, excitment was aroused from Ming-Hui who seem to be pushing to skip the last refuel so that he could maintain his position. His gamble didn't work out well because in actual fact, Ming-Hui later clarified, he could not hear his Mechanic calling him for refuel (actually his Mechanic called him so many times and finally gave up calling him in). His car ran out of fuel on the final lap just before entering the left side straight that would have brought him home.

Okay, before I forget, from the right we have Raul Peris, Reckward, Ricardo, Martin (Oz), Yannick, Hsia-Ching, Wu-Chung, Huan-Pin, Ming-Hui and Frans.

So we have a concentration of 4 drivers from Taiwan. Martin, Hsia-Ching & Huan-Pin were driving HN X1CRs. Wu-Chung is driving a GS Storm, Raul is on a MP777, not too sure about the rest.