Banco Santander Carrera Turismes de Catalunya

Banco Santander Carrera Turismes de Catalunya
Event 2 of 8 in the RRR Touring Car Championship

Date	1st September 2011
Location	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain National Circuit
Course	Purpose Built Racing Facility 1.85 miles
Entrants	13
Races	2
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The Carrera Turismes de Catalunya (English: Catalan Touring Car Race), sponsored by Banco Santander* is the second event of the second season of Really Rubbish Racing competition.

The event takes place at the Circuit de Catalunya, outside the city of Barcelona in the the Catalonia region of Spain. The layout used is the National Circuit, which cuts short the first sector of the full circuit lap with a hairpin two-thirds of the distance along the start/finish straight. This then re-joins the circuit at the left hand flat-out kink that is turn 6.

* Not actually sponsored by or at all affiliated with Santander

Sprint Race

Sprint Race
Round 3 of 16 in the RRR Touring Car Championship

Distance	11 laps	20.35 miles
Fastest Lap
Driver/Team	Tomcheesey	CheeseyRug Racing
Time	1:18:357
Podium
First	Flavoury	CheeseyRug Racing
Second	Rumbly	RumbLee Racing
Third	Ajokay	POWA
Independent Winner
First	Smifaye	Black Cats

Summary

Race summary.

Teams Trophy

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Independents Trophy

Everyone got away cleanly from the line and it was a battle to see who could make the first corner first. There was some contact between new boy OpenedAutumn58 and Original 8 member Javaguy360. Both drivers were sent into a spin and their races were difficult to recover from that point. This left a leading pack of Dan Thorn, Umack84, Smifaye and C R Welsh85.

Dan Thorn was leading the race with Smifaye closing the gap. Smifaye made use of his top speed advantage to close the gap with Dan being quicker in the twisty downforce dependent part of the track. Smifaye then was close enough to make a move going down the start finish straight. Smifaye moved over to show himself in Dan's mirrors, Dan then braked too late which let Smifaye into the lead.

The last few laps were extremely tense with Smifaye out in the lead with Dan Thorn closing the gap lap by lap. By the last lap the drivers were nose to tail. Dan then made a last effort into the last chicane making contact with Smifaye, the two drivers were side by side going into the last right hander then Dan ran wide giving Smifaye his first win in the championship.

Race Classification

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Car	Class	Laps	Time/Retired	Points
1	29	FlavouryRug	CheeseyRug Racing	Honda Civic Type R	T	11	14:39.638	10
2	69	RumblyLizard	RumbLee Racing	Seat Leon Cupra R	T	11	+1.423	8
3	23	Ajokay	POWA	Renault Megane RS250	T	11	+3.420	6
4	55	Smifaye	Black Cats Racing Team	SEAT Leon Cupra R	I	11	+7.976		10
5	20	Tomcheesey	CheeseyRug Racing	Honda Civic Type R	T	11	+8.077	4
6	7	Mr Flobadob	RumbLee Racing	Seat Leon Cupra R	T	11	+10.289	3
7	802	Dan Thorn	Kernowsport	Vauxhall Astra VXR	I	11	+10.549		8
8	84	Umack84	T-C Collaboration	VW Scirocco GT	I	11	+12.152		6
9	172	C R Welsh 85	Drive Angry	Honda Integra DC5	I	11	+17.370		4
10	71	Bookoi	POWA	Renault Megane RS250	T	11	+25.777	2
11	04	Mr E 004	Shout-E-Motoring	VW Scirocco GT	T	11	+30.764	1
12	53	Javaguy360	Lime GP	Acura RSX	I	DNF	Timeout		3
13	99	OpenedAutumn58	Autumn GP	Renault Megane RS250	I	DNF	Timeout		2

Image Gallery

The cars navigate the New Holland chicane for the first time as Tomcheesey sheds some excess window weight	At the first corner, Bookoi makes the last of the late brakers look early...	...but parks up nicely between the cones
The battle for the lead begins to hot up at half distance	Flavoury gets alongside Rumbly for a drag down the main straight	Ajokay watches on from third as the Honda takes the lead during the penultimate journey through the stadium section
The Independents line up on the grid at Catalunya	Umack84 runs wide allowing Dan Thorn past	Dan Thorn makes a last lap attempt for win