iGP Manager Round 4 – Bahrain

Hot and dusty Bahrain was the venue for round four of the championship, and given the heat, tyres would take a serious punishment here. Harder compounds would fare better (at least, in theory), staying cooler in the intense temperatures. Nonetheless, short stints on the soft tyre were in order for several teams, and I used softs for Taylor’s qualifying, which saw him start 11th, albeit he was more than a second down on pole sitter Schumacher of RBHRT. However, as we have seen, starting on pole is not a good measure for who will end up winning. Instead, the race threw up some expected results, and some new faces in the points. It was also, for me, an unmitigated disaster.

For whatever reason my cars just weren’t quick around here. Despite long runs on the hard tyre yielding positions in the points at one stage or another, come the end of all the stops Thompson and Taylor were firmly in the midfield and there they would stay. Thompson was catching a few cars ahead, but would have needed several more laps to actually move higher up, much less get into the points. The only positive for me is that Taylor looked a lot better relative to Thompson, finishing ten seconds behind his teammate, as opposed to half a minute or so.

It won’t come as a surprise to learn that D Thompson of Black Arrows won yet again, extending his championship lead and that of his team’s. What we did get were the first points of the season for the Drivezalot team, which is pretty pleasing as the manager of the team is someone I’ve raced against for a few seasons, and we moved to this league together, so it would nice to continue our rivalry. C Morales took fifth for Drivezalot, comfortably beating his previously quicker teammate L Schneider, who finished ninth.

What this all means is that after four races, Black Arrows are on 140 points, 78 points ahead of 221op. Already we’re looking at almost two one-two finishes for Black Arrows’ closest challengers, combined with few or no points, to close that gap. In the driver’s championship, D Thompson is on 93 points, 41 points clear of Dudek. Again, that’s more than a race win. I’ll do a comprehensive table after round 5.

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