Round 12 - Italy (Monza)

ACE SERIES

1996/97 Pole Position:	1:15.141 (Oliver Roberts)
1996/97 Race Time:	1h11m26.472 (Michal Janak)
Race Distance:	53 laps

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Points
1.	Michal Janak	Digitech	1:14.449		20
2.	Oliver Roberts	Digitech	1:14.852	+0.403	16
3.	Nuno Maltez	Rocketship	1:15.177	+0.728	14
4.	Markus Kruggel	Wild 13	1:15.201	+0.752	12
5.	Jan Svehlik	Bolgani	1:15.231	+0.782	10
6.	Steffen Diener	Roadrunner	1:15.329	+0.880	8
7.	Alan Strang	Team Ecosse	1:15.344	+0.895	6
8.	Marco Saupe	M&T-SPEED	1:15.390	+0.941	5
9.	Rafal Ziarnik	Yapamotox	1:15.414	+0.965	4
10.	Mirko Patzenbein	Enigma Racing	1:15.434	+0.985	3
11.	Reinhold Schatzer	Rocketship	1:15.492	+1.043	2
12.	Eik Hoffmann	Red Diana	1:15.631	+1.182	1
13.	Ignacio Garcia	Curb Crawlers	1:15.996	+1.547
14.	Jonathan Stead	Slipstream	1:16.200	+1.751
15.	Anthony Long	P76 Racing	1:16.204	+1.755
16.	Axel Bruns	Wild 13	1:16.343	+1.894
17.	James Luscombe	James Luscombe	1:16.452	+2.003
18.	Fernando Alvarez	PROJECT AR	1:16.587	+2.138
19.	Scott Dryden	Team Ecosse	1:16.651	+2.202
20.	Hendrik Mehl	Crash Heads	1:17.060	+2.611
21.	Martin Devine	Enigma Racing	1:17.088	+2.639

Monza really is the track where Michal is unbeatable, his third Monza win in three years clearly shows that. Team-mate Oliver was in a much better shape than at Spa, however, and so Michal's race wasn't as clear as the one before. Jan Svehlik narrowly missed out on the podium, but although he was close behind Alan for the last laps, he didn't manage to overtake the Team Ecosse driver once.

If there still was doubt who will win the constructor's title this season, Markus Kruggel's early retirement and Digitech winning maximum points for round 12 of the championship should have eleminated that. Wild 13 lost 162 points on Digitech and nearly the last hypothetical chance to get ahead of last year's winning team.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Points
1.	Michal Janak	Digitech	1h10m54.534		180
2.	Oliver Roberts	Digitech	1h11m26.080	+0:31.546	170
3.	Alan Strang	Team Ecosse	1h12m06.595	+1:12.061	165
4.	Jan Svehlik	Bolgani	1h12m07.599	+1:13.065	160
5.	Marco Saupe	M&T SPEED	1h12m15.496	+1:20.962	155
6.	Steffen Diener	Roadrunner	1h12m18.404	+1:23.870	151
7.	Axel Bruns	Wild 13	1h12m35.096	+1:40.562	147
8.	Mirko Patzenbein	Enigma Racing	1h12m36.926	+1:42.392	143
9.	Nuno Maltez	Rocketship	1h12m43.093	+1:48.559	139
10.	James Luscombe	V-Tec F1	1h12m58.859	+2:04.325	135
11.	Eik Hoffmann	Red Diana	1h13m08.536	+2:14.002	132
12.	Rafal Ziarnik	Yapamotox	1h13m32.236	+2:37.702	129
13.	Ignacio Garcia	Curb Crawlers	1h13m37.982	+2:43.448	126
14.	Scott Dryden	Team Ecosse	1h14m53.075	+3:58.541	123
15.	Fernando Alvarez	PROJECT AR	-1 lap		120
16.	Hendrik Mehl	Crash Heads	-1 lap		117
17.	Jonathan Stead	Slipstream	41 laps	(77.4%)	88
18.	Reinhold Schatzer	Rocketship	33 laps	(62.3%)	69
19.	Markus Kruggel	Wild 13	32 laps	(60.4%)	65
20.	Martin Devine	Enigma Racing	22 laps	(41.5%)	43
21.	Anthony Long	P76 Racing	12 laps	(22.6%)	23

Fastest Lap: 1:16.507 - Michal Janak (Digitech)

Race Statistics

Pos	Car	Driver	Fastest Lap		LL/TL	Pitstops		Avg. Grip	Tyre Usage
Pos	Car	Driver	Time	Lap #	LL/TL	Stops	Avg. Length	Avg. Grip	C	D
1.	2	M.Janak	1:16.507	52	52/53	2	0:17.450	93	22	31
2.	1	O.Roberts	1:17.106	52	1/53	2	0:14.192	93	21	32
3.	5	A.Strang	1:17.493	53	0/53	2	0:14.852	93	21	32
4.	21	J.Svehlik	1:17.282	52	0/53	2	0:20.675	93	42	11
5.	45	M.Saupe	1:16.992	53	0/53	2	0:17.707	93	23	30
6.	36	S.Diener	1:17.104	51	0/53	2	0:19.456	93		53
7.	8	A.Bruns	1:17.092	51	0/53	3	0:16.736	94	20	33
8.	40	M.Patzenbein	1:17.407	50	0/53	2	0:19.002	93	22	31
9.	13	N.Maltez	1:17.348	53	0/53	2	0:32.632	93	39	14
10.	25	J.Luscombe	1:19.324	48	0/53	1	0:25.632	92	53
11.	29	E.Hoffmann	1:17.595	50	0/53	2	0:16.072	93		53
12.	31	R.Ziarnik	1:18.397	53	0/53	2	0:36.273	93	53
13.	24	I.G.Cuadrado	1:17.394	52	0/53	3	0:32.618	94	7	46
14.	6	S.Dryden	1:18.951	51	0/53	3	0:25.335	94		53
15.	47	F.Alvarez	1:19.083	46	0/52	3	-:--.---	92	35	17
16.	16	H.Mehl	1:19.243	51	0/52	3	0:32.331	93	42	10
17.	37	J.Stead	1:20.572	33	0/41	2	0:49.950	94		41
18.	14	R.Schatzer	1:20.017	23	0/33	1	0:16.830	94		33
19.	7	M.Kruggel	1:20.048	27	0/32	2	0:39.603	94		32
20.	39	M.Devine	---no logfile---
21.	20	A.Long	1:22.794	11	0/12	0		93	12

Action Replays

Steffen Diener (Roadrunners):
"I only saved one replay during this race. It shows a chaotic overtaking."
Oliver Roberts (Digitech):
"On the whole the CCs didn't hold me up too much, even if there was some overcrowded overtaking (see my replay for my 4 car pass in the early stages of the race)."
Reinhold Schatzer (Rocketship):
"The replay shows a spin caused by a bit an unfair manoeuvre of Berger. While I can continue my race, Berger smashed into the wall, so at least that was fair."

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Last modified: Tuesday 05 May 1998 - 22:53