
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Race :: Round 17 - Disaster for Monaco!!
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Finland's Tavho Myrsky rams his gears down and skids into the curve at Avenue de la Victoire as Megane Omalie of Norway closes the gap, skidding and hitting the brakes as she takes the middle line. In a daring move, Sweden's Rutger Hägglund makes a hard break for the curve to a close third, his entry into the curve perfectly timed. His engine redlined, the Shark grits his teeth as white smoke curls behind from the exhaust and a part of his exhaust pipe breaks away onto the track. The damage is worth his move into the lead pack. Less daring, Germany's Godeschalk Hegkman shifts down. Coming out of Hôtel Ruhl, seeing the Swede making his break, Monaco's Louis de Montignac puts the hammer down and redlines his engine. He too races past, overtaking Germany. Yet what’s this? Oh! The engine! What calamity! An explosion under the hood of the Tipo B!! The right side panel breaks away onto the track. Monaco is out! The winner from the Grand Prix d'Algiers is out!! Terrible, terrible!!! What a terrible shock for all who came to Nice from nearby Monte Carlo to see their favorite driver, hoping for another victory. Oh, the humanity!! But now time to pause -- France too pulls past Hegkman, drafting off the German's modified Bugatti T51A, even as the Czech, Vitez Rychly, overtakes in the right lane. In the blink of an eye, Germany has fallen from 3rd place to 8th place! Belgium's Victor Hugo Stéphane is now also ahead. At Hôtel Ruhl, Italy's Sebi Orsi cleanly slides through the curve, his Maserati humming along in near perfect racing trim, and Britian's John Milk slides by to overtake in the right lane. At the back of the pack, Switzerland cuts to the right lane and sets up to enter the curve ahead by Hôtel Ruhl and the last racer of the Épreuve, Spain's Teide Sorolla, can only slightly close the gap, seemingly unable to coax the needed RPM from his Bugatti T35B's straight eight cylinder engine to make something of the race -- yet is it the driver or the car, or just bad luck that plagues the black racer?

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