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Posted: Sep 21 2006, 09:23 PM

Falcania Triumphant

Another thrilling race of the AOOWC has resulted in Falcania's second win in three races. After being rammed last race by the Vilitan driver Iobabo, Featbridge-born-and-raised Julian Marquis is back on top after his thrilling performance today. He had qualified fourth a day previously, largely due to the skill of his engineering team in tuning the car to relative perfection. Starting in position four of the grid, he was soon overtaken but maintained track position due to Chacorian driver Durant's misfortune in losing four places. Marquis then had a fairly uneventful race until lap 16, when he scraped his car taking the final hairpin too tight, necessitating a pitstop the following lap. 11.32 seconds later he screeched out of the pits, to discover he had lost just three places. Marquis gained back two of those places, firstly due to Fitzsimmons pitting, and secondly due to superbly-fought duel with Bobby Gashead, of Bettia. TLC's Trafanor pitted, allowing Marquis to slip forward into podium position of 3rd. The Falcanian driver then began a four-lap duel with Hatzeganov, which he was forced to abandon by taking a brief pitstop, emerging once more in 4th. He returned to 3rd after his duelling partner Hatzeganov was forced to retire with turbo issues.

After some sterling performance in catching up with the race leaders, Iobabo and Gashead, Marquis eventually managed to duel the former into submission. The very next lap, Marquis' rival, Fitzsimmons, managed to unwittingly aid his foe by clipping Iobabo's wheels. Kraig Fitzsimmons was sent carreering into a wall, while Iobabo scraped along the side of the track, losing three places. Marquis' only worry now was Bobby Gashead, who pitted a few laps later. Pushing ever harder ahead of Rk-Mrs of Az-Cz, who was by this point nearly 24 seconds behind him, he managed to set a new lap record on lap 52, which he then proceeded to break twice on the adjacent laps. A pitstop allowed Mrs to take the lead briefly, but after he himself pitted Marquis was once again leading, with former leader Iobabo hot on his heels. However, Julian's worries were over when the Vilitan pulled into the pits, and chaotic mechanics cost him roughly six seconds. Iobabo emerged 43 seconds behind Marquis, a gap which proceeded to widen as Marquis set a new fastest lap on lap 69. He then pitted himself, and emerged with the gap severely shortened but only to roughly 22 seconds. Iobabo rocketted ahead to attempt to claim victory but it was in vain. Marquis rolled over the finish line triumphantly, to the sounds of hundreds of Falcanians screeching in celebration.

Julian Marquis's excellent performance is expected to land him a place in next year's tournament.

This post has been edited by Falcania on Sep 21 2006, 09:23 PM

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Posted: Sep 23 2006, 01:24 PM

The Daily Quak
Sorley Needs To Improve

The Atlantian Openwheel Championships have been on going on around the globe lately and Quakmybushian Driver Cameron Sorley has been racing in it. He sits in 11th in the standings 5 points behind the Chacor driver, who it is at the moment, we arnt quite sure. Here are Sorley' results:

Surfers Paradise: Qualified 11th, Finished 11th
Phoenix: Qualified 15th, Finished 6th
Long Beach: Qualified 6th, Finshed 9th
Nazareth: Qualified 14th, Finished 10th
Milwaukee: Qualified 16th, Finished 13th (Out due to Driving Error)
Belle Isle: Qualified 16th, Finished 7th
Portland: Qualified 8th, Finished 8th
Road America: Qualified 9th, Finished 7th
Toronto: Qualified 6th, Finished 7th (Fastest Lap)
Cleveland: Qualified 8th, Finished 5th
Michigan: Qualified 10th, Finished 5th
Mid-Ohio: Qualified 15th, Finished 12th
New Hampshire: Qualified 15th

AVG Start - 11.4
AVG Finish - 9.3

It is clear the problem with Sorley is that he cannot qualify to well. He needs to step it up to clinch a spot in the Championship next year.

This post has been edited by Quakmybush on Sep 23 2006, 01:25 PM

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Posted: Sep 24 2006, 02:42 AM

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Lei-Laz
Aj-Ft

Rk-Mrs finishes second race in a row

After a fine run to finish in third place Rk-Mrs looked determined to build on that success, and from his perspective he succeeded.

He finished 9th in the race, which isn't a particularly impressive finish. And he struggled on the day, often losing ground to other drivers, but he did in fact finish. For only the second time all season he's finished consecutive races. If he can manage to stay on the course for the next race he'll have set a personal best.

He is of course the only driver not to have finished three races in a row. Still with a driver the caliber of Rk-Mrs you have to take any small victories you can find.

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Posted: Sep 25 2006, 07:04 PM

Thrice victorious!

Another frankly astonishing win for Falcanian driver Julian Marquis today in the AOOWC. The race team were looking confident for this track, helped partly because of Marquis's excellent performance in qualifying and partly because of chief engineer "Jewels" Mickleson's excelling tuning of the car. Julian started the race in first place and kept it, despite constant harrassment from Vilitan Iobabo, who finally outbraked Julian into turn 5 on lap 15. However, a pitstop ten laps later allowed Marquis to retake the lead. By the time Iobabo regained second place, Julian was massively ahead, allowing him to take his first scheduled pitstop without danger of losing position, and indeed he emerged still 13.5 seconds ahead of the Vilitan. Marquis fended off opportunistic advances from Iobabo, and set fastest laps on 61-64 and lap 66 too. However, the number of the devil caught up with him as he pitted, losing three places. By lap 76 he had clawed his way back up into 2nd place behind Iobabo, but time was running out. Constant stabs at Iobabo's security looked vain, until lap 97 when he finally clawed his way back into the lead. Confidence restored, he soared into his third victory.

This post has been edited by Falcania on Sep 25 2006, 07:05 PM

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Posted: Sep 25 2006, 07:31 PM

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Lei Laz
Aj-Ft

Rk-Mrs once again gets knocked off the course

With only once course remaining, the home course here in Lei-Laz, Rk-Mrs managed to clinch a number of dubious records for this AOWC season.

He was sitting in third place and racing well looking like he might challenge for a top spot, until he collided with Bobby Gashead of Bettia on Lap 13, ending the day for both drivers.

With that result Rk-Mrs guaranteed that he would finish less than half of the races on the tour and that he would never finish more than two consecutive races. Both are embarassing results and blots on the record of Az-cz sport.

We decided to get Tex-Mex's opinion again and here's what he had to say. "Even our team for the Atlantian Oceania Basketball Championships who lost every game they played were better than Rk-Mrs. There ought to be no way he gets invited back for next season. It's just ridiculous."

And that sums up the Az-cz race season.

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Posted: Sep 25 2006, 08:38 PM

Conservative Iobabao prepares for final showdown

Vilita and Turori Open Wheel driver Jericei Iobabao took a conservative approach to the Pacific Place event, opting for reliability and control over raw speed. It nearly paid off as well for the consistent Iobabao who ran a patient race, and took the lead on lap 76 when championship rival Fitzimmons pitted for tires and fuel, the final driver to make his final pitstop. Falcanias Marquis was right behind however, and had been the fastest on the track all race long. At first it appeared Marquis would easily overtake the Turorian driver, but Iobabao had other ideas, holding the Falcanian driver off until finally submitting just 3 laps from the finish, as Marquis drove to victory and Iobabao had to settle for second place.

Championship rival Kraig Fitzimmons looked to have done himself in on lap 93 but he quickly returned to the track and limped his badly damaged vehicle home in 5th place, earning a crucial 10 points towards the final standings. Despite retaking the lead in the standings, Jericei Iobabao leads by just 2 points going into the final event of the season. The bottom line is, whoever finishes higher in the final race wins the first ever AOMC championship.

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Posted: Sep 27 2006, 07:28 PM

Sorley Heartbroken, missed top 10 by 5 points.

It was the final race of the AOMC and Cameron Solrey needs to finish well to qualify ahead of Modry from Chacor. On the first lap Sorley collided with Bobby Gashead from Bettia causing him to have to pit. Sorley came out in last place. He then gained a position when rival Modry crashed with Schwarz from Geisenfried. This put Sorley in a very good spot needing an 8th or better place to get into the top 10. Sorley radioed in to the team "Send Schwarz a bread basket" He and the team had a good laugh and he kept driving. On Lap 9 Sorley's car hit. He passed Belair from Oliverry with ease. On Lap 12 he passed Tranafor from The Lowland Clans. Then on Lap 14 he passed Aleister from Xile in turn 1, and Harrison from Demot. This moved him up into 11th, he still needed a few more positions to get those 5 points. Two cars that were in front of him pitted on Lap 17, and he passed Gashead to move up into P9. He gained another position when MacCullen from Myrtannia chose to pit. He was now in 7th and was sitting in the top 10. Sorley then blew past Marquis from Falcania to move into 6th. Sorley then pit on Lap 28 and shuffled down to 8th. He gained 1 spot back the next Lap when Naruto from Fmjphoenix pit. MacCullen obviously had a faster car so Sorley let him by so that he didnt ruin his car on Lap 36. 7 laps later MacCullen gave the position back when he decided to pit. Going into turn 1 on Lap 50 Sorley passed Mrs from Az-Cz to move into 6th. On Lap 52 Tranafor dropped out of the racer. Then on Lap 55 tragedt struck. Sorley who clearly had a faster car than Schwarz attempted to pass him, Schwarz cut Sorley off and the two racers collided ending both of their days. Over the radio Sorley said "Oh ya.... that bread basket, tell Schwarz he can stick it up his ass." Sorley was clearly angry, he got out of his car and went straight to Schwarz's car and started yelling at him. He then took a swing at him, however track officials got in between the two before anything worse could happen. Both drivers were extremely angry, and when they got to their pits they started to go at it again. However both drivers were finally seperated. The race continues while Sorley sat broken hearted in his trailer. Iobabao from Vilita won the racer and the championship and Sorley finished 11th in the standings

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Posted: Sep 27 2006, 09:50 PM

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Lei-Laz

Rk-Mrs closes with strong run

Competing in front of his home fans Rk-Mrs finished strongly. Despite making four stops on a relatively short course he was still able to rack up a third place finish.

He looked really good on the course, turning in the best lap for the entire tour. His knowledge of the home course paid off as he navigated his way towards the podium.

However despite making the podium twice towards the end of the season he won't be representing Az-cz next season. Ltr-Mn explained "he improved near the season and we may well ask him back in the future. But for now we're going in a different direction." No word has been released on who will replace.

Still if that was his last race for Az-cz he ended well. Despite his poor skills and troubles he kept his head up and for that we salute him.

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Posted: Oct 3 2006, 06:54 PM

Bedistan chooses entrant for second AOOWC season

Having missed the boat the first time around, the Bedistan Association of Motorsports (BAM) has selected reigning national champion Tim Bowen to represent the nation in the second Atlantian Oceania Open Wheel Championship. Expectations are high for Bowen, and it is predicted that he should prove more than a match for last season's competitors.

The season is expected to get underway shortly.

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Posted: Oct 9 2006, 07:14 PM

Schwarz Starts the Season Off Right
Geisenfried takes the checkered flag in first race

Last year, Gunther Schwarz had a bittersweet season: though he was consistent in races and finished fourth overall in the standings, quite respectable, he never won a single race. But that was last season, and despite the troubles and strife that now brew all over Atlantian Oceania, the Atlantian Oceanian Motor Championship continues on, and the second season has begun.

And Schwarz performed excellently. Qualifying second before cruising past the current AOMC Champion Jericei Iobabao from Vilita and Turori on the first lap, Gunther preceeded to take 57 out of 65 laps, the fastest lap time and the checkered flag, giving him 22 points to start of the season to put him at the top of the championship with his first career racing victory.

Last year, Jericei Iobabao took first in the beginning race as well before adding a consistent season to take the championship, now can Schwarz follow the recipe for success to become the next champion? Only time will tell.

This post has been edited by Geisenfried on Oct 9 2006, 07:14 PM

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Posted: Oct 9 2006, 07:32 PM

well i put in the game id or w/e it says it does not exist

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Posted: Oct 9 2006, 08:31 PM

Good performance hampered by mechanical problems

It was a day of frustration for Bedistani driver Tim Bowen in the first race of this season of the AOOWC. On lap 45 of the 65-lap race, Bowen noticed a problem with the rear wing of the car causing him to have some steering issues, forcing his lap times up by about a second and a half and ultimately causing him to fall to 7th place - and he would likely have fallen further were it not for an intervening safety car.

"It's never a good feeling when you're out there driving much slower than everyone else, and it feels even worse when you can't do anything about it," Bowen said after the race. "But oh well, it's still early in the season, and Schwarz and Iobabao should still definitely be keeping an eye on me, 'cause I'm out to get 'em."

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Posted: Oct 9 2006, 08:31 PM

Delesa: Game's full and has already started, can't join in mid-game.

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Posted: Oct 9 2006, 10:42 PM

ah, that would do it!

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Posted: Oct 9 2006, 11:34 PM

Modry "disappointed" to miss out
Janislav Modry has publicly spoken out at his disappointment about failing to secure the main driving seat for the Chacor-DR team from Kristjan Durant. Durant, who had widely not been expected to race in season two after his impressive stand-in NSF1 World Championship races as many expected he would sign permanently with LivEng Racing, drove a good race to finish 4th in the first event, despite qualifying in 9th.

Good pit strategy coupled with lucky timing of safety car periods meant that Durant was able to gain the places he needed; at one time he even led the race. However, uncharacteristic errors in the pits by Durant meant that he was slower than he could've been.

However, Modry isn't happy. He had expected, rightfully so, to be able to race more this season. "I'm definitely disappointed. I mean, full credit to Kristjan but I really expected to race more this year. My future remains committed to the Chacor-DR AOOWC team, but I need more opportunities."