20 Jun 2010 Circuit Hero Road Sport Race 1: Three way battle

At 12:15pm on 20th June 2010, with the conclusion of race 1 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, Pan Delta's own race - Circuit Hero Road Sport, takes to the track for their first race of the day.

According to the results of yesterday's qualifying, no. 3 Yam Chi-Yuen starts the race on pole position, no. 38 Mak Wai-Man will start alongside him. Veteran Sun Tit-Fan will start from third place. At the end of the warm-up lap, the cars are all lined-up properly ready for the start.

Red lights go out and 14 powerful machines blast down the pit-straight together. The white Mistubishi of Yam Chi-Yuen speeds away while Mak Wai-Man messes up his start and drops back. Yam Chi-Yuen though is not able to hold on to his lead as Sun Tit-Fan outbrakes him. At the end of lap one, no. 1 Sun Tit-Fan leads no. 3 Yam Chi-Yuen by a full second. No. 38 Mak Wai-Man is down to fifth place.

At about 1/3 distance, No. 1 Sun Tit-Fan continues to lead with Yam Chi-Yuen close behind him. They have now established a lead of more than 10 seconds over the third placed car. On lap 4, Mak Wai-Man begins to charge his way up the leaderboard and passes two cars for third place. He then starts to lap some two seconds faster than the leaders and cuts their lead down to 7 seconds.

On lap 6, Yam Chi-Yuen closes up on Sun Tit-Fan, apparently urging him to go faster. But the two leaders actually allows Mak Wai-Man to close further, now just 3 seconds behind. At the last corner, no. 3 Yam Chi-Yuen stays on the outside line and passes no. 1 Sun Tit-Fan. But Mak Wai-Man is now right on their tails to start a three car battle. As the three enter turn 1, Mak Wai-Man gets to the inside line and outbrakes both Yam Chi-Yuen and Sun Tit-Fan in one move.

On the following lap the top 3 are still running together, anyone of them still very much in with a chance of taking the race win. But by lap 8, Mak Wai-Man begins to pull away while Yam Chi-Yuen and Sun Tit-Fan fights for the right to lead the chase. On the last lap, a yellow Lotus spins at turn 4 but is able to continue just as the leaders are about to lap him.

In the end, no. 38 Mak Wai-Man wins the race, no. 3 Yam Chi-Yuen takes second place and no. 1 Sun Tit-Fan finishes in third place. But after the race, no. 38 Mak Wai-Man is determined to have overtaken under yellow flag and penalized 60 seconds. Therefore the winner is no. 3 Yam Chi-Yuen, second is no. 1 Sun Tit-Fan and third is Gao Tian-De.