25 Jun 2015 Guo Guo-Xin wins again - Circuit Hero One Race 2

At 10:30 on 21 June 2015, Pan Delta Super Racing Festival once again released the Circuit Hero One machines on the track. The cars will line up according to their results from race 1. Thus Guo Guo-Xin's Mercedes SLS will start from the pole position. He started yesterday's race from the last position and despite the interruption of the safety car, was able to win the race. Today, he will start from pole position and victory seems more or less guaranteed. His teammate Huang Zhan-Xi will also start from the front row. But their main competitor, Eric Lo's Ferrari 430, will have to start from the back after his gearbox overheated yesterday. Jon Flinn will start third in his Radical SR1.

The weather today is just as bright as yesterday, but a little more cloudy. Today's race is only 10 laps, 5 fewer than yesterday. Drivers will have to make their moves quickly.

23 race cars are soon ready on their grid positions. The race begins but Guo Guo-Xin seems to have hit a problem and is overwhelmed by the cars behind him. The Audi R8 LMS gets away fine and leads into the first corner. All the other cars have no problems as well as they file through. At the end of lap 1, Huang Zhan-Xi leads the race in his Audi R8 LMS, but Guo Guo-Xin is up to second place. The Ferrari 430 of Eric Lo is stuck in traffic. Jon Flinn is third but already a long way back from the leading duo.

On lap 4, Huang Xi-Zhan still leads Guo Guo-Xin, he is able to defend himself from the more powerful Mercedes SLS. But when they hit a backmarker Huang is momentarily delayed and Guo Guo-Xin does not hesitate to take the lead.

Once into the lead, Guo Guo-Xin begins to pull away from Huang Xi-Zhan. Soon he is 6 seconds ahead, fully demonstrating he and his car's superiority. By now Eric Lo's Ferrari 430 is up to fourth place and 13 seconds behind Jon Flinn's Radical SR1. Eric may not have enough laps left to catch Jon. Guo Guo-Xin starts to set some good lap times and he settles for 1:41.205.

At the chequered flag, Guo Guo-Xin once again finishes on the top step of the Circuit Hero One podium. Huang Zhan-Xi takes second place while Jon Flinn finishes third overall and wins the Open A class. Eric Lo finishes 4th overall but third in Open B class.

Guo Guo-Xin said, "This race car is not made for standing starts. I am used to getting overtaken at race starts. When I came up against Huang Zhan-Xi, he blocked me and late braked to defend me. There was no way past until we came up against backmarkers. Overall, today's race was normal and perfect."

Huang Xi-Zhan said, "My start was perfect but soon after I have taken the lead, the Mercedes SLS was on my tail. Due to the power difference, I could only use late braking to defend myself.  But it was not possible when we came up to backmarkers, I hesitated a little and he overtook me. This is normall just a little regretable."

Eric Lo said, "Yesterday the car's gearbox overheated so I had to retire. Today I had to start from the back and at T1 there were a lot of cars and one of them was on the grass near me. I was therefore very careful, trying to maintain my progress by overtaking one to two cars per lap. I am satisfied with the result. In September I hope the weather will not be so hot as my car is European and not really used to this type of hot weather."

Open A class winner Jon Flinn said, "I was fortunate to start from third place and was under a little pressure to keep up with the Open B class entries. But they were 5-6 seconds quicker than me per lap so I just maintained my own pace. In the middle of the race the car began to lose grip and the Ferrari began to catch me. But my engineer told me not to worry as he was too far back. In the end we won Open A class and it has been a very good season so far."

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