
Denmark's Olsen suddenly also finds the way ahead closed off. Despite having shifted up perfectly to overtake, now he must slam on his brakes and struggle to avoid a collision with the Italian! The Alfa Romeo Super Sport's brakes burn out in a cloud of smoke, the inside of his tire rims glowing red hot despite the freezing cold of the race.
The Dane curses as Orsi raise his fist in a salute. It was a wicked and very effective plan – Orsi will now accelerate smoothly away as the other two cars instead must now shift down to take Fiskekroken in lower gear.
In the Barrböjen chicane, Belgium's Victor Hugo Stéphane smokes by on the left, passing the British Amilcar. Germany's white knight, Godeschalk Hegkman, cuts left in the chicane, blocking Monaco's Louis de Montignac who now must cut back to the right to avoid colliding with the white Bugatti.
The Scottish racer, Alastair MacDougall, cruises forward toward Barrböjen, keeping reasonable position as he comes up to the chicane. Farther back, Vitez Rychly accelerates out of the pit onto the track. Behind, Portugal and Finland both skid into their pit stops and leap out to help the mechanics with some major work on the cars.
Racing out of Hårnålskurva, Sweden cuts around the French Salmson, while the Swiss racer accelerates forward, gapping the two cars in higher gear, his Bugatti engine straining to make the most of his lead.
The French racer will now find himself in a challenging and difficult position, his car in lower gears as the other two racers will soon accelerate away from him down the straight. Yet nobody will count out the French racer, who won at the Grand Prix in Nice, having “led the pack from behind” only to pass and take the checkered flag late in the race.
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