rFactor 1 ING Australian Grand Prix comment

Australian Grand Prix was a really exciting race for the historic debut of rFactor1 league, with a great win by Gianpiero Baroni, on BMW Sauber.

Giammy Serra, polesitter in first rF1 race of th story.

In qualify, at last attempt, Giammy Serra took an awesome pole position, beating Corigliano and Baroni. Good laps for Cabiddu (5th) and the "deb" Iudicello, 6th. Nieto and Cardozo were in troubles with his setups and they finished qualify in the back of the grid.

The grid five second before the start of the race

In first corner, Serra keep the leading, while in the back his teammate Giaki Serra was involved in an accident with Luc Bernard and spun off. At the end of first lap, Iudicello miss the "Ascari" and Cabiddu can only took him and went to pit. Pit-stop also for Nieto.
At the second lap, Serra made a mistake in 11th corner and Baroni overtook him.
In the back, Giaki Serra attack Luc Bernard for 9th position, at 3rd lap. Bianchi is in troubles with his tyres and came out at the "Lauda" (will pit in in this lap), same problems for Vacca at 11th corner and decide to retire.
At 4th lap another little mistake by Serra GM let Baroni and Zingalus the chance to overtake him.
In 5th lap, pitstop for Iudicello, who also received a Drive Through for speeding in Pitlane. This is the lap of most important accidents: we saw the accidents of Bernard (retired), Bianchi (retired), Giaki Serra (pit) and Cardozo (pit).
In 6th lap, Giaki Serra and Carozo decided to pit in, but the Toro Rosso's engine blow up and the italian is constrict to retire. In the front of the group, Corigliano overtook Zingalus.
Two laps later, Iudicello served his penalty and Cardozo had his final accident at "Jones-corner 1".
Between 9th and 10th laps, there were pitstops for Baroni, Zingalus e Greg.

Mario Nieto took a great 2nd position starting from the back of the grid.

A lap later, Giammy Serra made his pitstop and Cabiddu overtook Nieto.
At 13th lap, Cabiddu retired for no fuel and we had the pitstops of Smith (was 4th) and Corigliano.
In the 14th lap, Giammy Serra made his second pitstop, after some problems with his brakes, but he didnt solved.
Two laps later, Smith went off at "White Ford" just few second after Zingalus (who is in troubles with brakes) and half lap later he lost the control and involuntarily caused the accident of Iudicello, who finished his race at the 11th corner.
Seventeenth lap, Serra completely lost control of his STR (brakes failure) and went off to "White Ford" beating hard the wall. Zingalus tried to solve his problems with a pit but the engine blow up. Pitstop for Corigliano too.
A lap to go, sadly Greg lost the second position having an accident at "Ascari" and closing 4th.

The winner Gianpiero Baroni on his BMW

The podium was composed by Baroni (BMW), Nieto (Brawn) and Corigliano (BMW).

See you in Sepang ;)

Look at the article down for qualify/race results.