Round 5 - Canada (Montreal)

ACE SERIES

1996/97 Pole Position:	1:12.806 (Oliver Roberts)
1996/97 Race Time:	1h31m16.446 (Oliver Roberts)
Race Distance:	69 laps

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Points
1.	Alan Strang	Team Ecosse	1:12.737		20
2.	Marco Saupe	M&T-SPEED	1:12.824	+0.087	16
3.	Oliver Roberts	Digitech	1:12.894	+0.157	14
4.	Jan Svehlik	Bolgani	1:12.935	+0.198	12
5.	Michal Janak	Digitech	1:12.982	+0.245	10
6.	Markus Kruggel	Wild 13	1:13.064	+0.327	8
7.	Martin Devine	Enigma Racing	1:13.505	+0.768	6
8.	Steffen Diener	Roadrunner	1:13.619	+0.882	5
9.	Nuno Maltez	Rocketship	1:13.695	+0.958	4
10.	Rafal Ziarnik	Yapamotox	1:13.697	+0.960	3
11.	Mark McCubbin	McCubbin-Supreme	1:13.760	+1.023	2
12.	James Luscombe	V-Tec F1	1:13.846	+1.109	1
13.	Axel Bruns	Wild 13	1:13.910	+1.173
14.	Mirko Patzenbein	EnigmaRacing	1:13.981	+1.244
15.	Anthony Long	P76 Racing	1:14.246	+1.509
16.	Reinhold Schatzer	Rocketship	1:14.460	+1.723
17.	Thomas Bodlien	M&T-Speed	1:14.596	+1.859
18.	Argyris Maistralis	Crash Heads	1:14.692	+1.955
19.	Jonathan Stead	Team Sted	1:14.763	+2.026
20.	Scott Dryden	Team Ecosse	1:15.052	+2.315
21.	Hendrik Mehl	Crash Heads	1:15.541	+2.804

Michal Janak dominated the second race of the X-mas break, too, although it was not that kind of clear as at Monaco. After the opening laps, which saw a number of drivers in the lead, Michal took over in lap 9 and secured this position until the end of the race. While it was Oliver Roberts who held the second position during the first third of the race, Marco Saupe, Mirko Patzenbein and Alan Strang were seen here later on. Mirko battled with Alan for this position after lap 50, and finally claimed it nine laps before the end of the race. But unfortunately for the Enigma driver, he fell back 3 places until the end of the race, finishing on 5th. Although Michal won the race, Alan's pole position and 2nd race position meant that he scored the same number of points (190) as the Digitech driver and both can be called the most succesfull drivers of the GP.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Points
1.	Michal Janak	Digitech	1h30m54.220		180
2.	Alan Strang	Team Ecosse	1h32m02.009	+1:07.789	170
3.	Jan Svehlik	Bolgani	1h32m09.730	+1:15.510	165
4.	Marco Saupe	M&T SPEED	1h32m12.371	+1:18.151	160
5.	Mirko Patzenbein	Enigma Racing	1h32m13.444	+1:19.224	155
6.	Oliver Roberts	Digitech	1h32m17.070	+1:22.850	151
7.	Axel Bruns	Wild 13	1h32m31.792	+1:37.572	147
8.	James Luscombe	V-Tec F1	1h32m53.535	+1:59.315	143
9.	Reinhold Schatzer	Rocketship	1h33m19.743	+2:25.523	139
10.	Markus Kruggel	Wild 13	1h33m29.384	+2:35.164	135
11.	Rafal Ziarnik	Yapamotox	1h34m51.210	+3:56.990	132
12.	Scott Dryden	Team Ecosse	1h35m11.241	+4:17.021	129
13.	Mark McCubbin	McCubbin-Supreme	-1 lap		126
14.	Hendrik Mehl	Crash Heads	-1 lap		123
15.	Thomas Bodlien	M&T-Speed	65 laps	(94.2%)	113
16.	Jonathan Stead	Team Sted	54 laps	(78.3%)	91
17.	Argyris Maistralis	Crash Heads	33 laps	(47.8%)	54
18.	Nuno Maltez	Rocketship	31 laps	(44.9%)	49
19.	Steffen Diener	Roadrunner	12 laps	(17.4%)	18
20.	Martin Devine	Enigma Racing	9 laps	(13.0%)	13
20.	Anthony Long	P76 Racing	9 laps	(13.0%)	13

Fastest Lap: 1:14.951 - Axel Bruns (Wild 13)

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	1:15.597	61	61/69	2	0:22.071	91	54	15
2.	5	A.Strang	1:15.572	63	0/69	2	0:23.390	91	30	39
3.	21	J.Svehlik	1:15.064	64	0/69	2	0:27.821	91	51	18
4.	45	M.Saupe	1:15.571	69	1/69	2	0:23.677	91	28	41
5.	40	M.Patzenbein	1:16.142	60	0/69	2	0:23.499	91	50	19
6.	1	O.Roberts	1:15.269	68	7/69	2	0:25.271	91	53	16
7.	8	A.Bruns	1:14.951	60	0/69	2	0:23.678	91	53	16
8.	25	J.Luscombe	1:16.412	63	0/69	1	0:24.693	90	69
9.	14	R.Schatzer	1:16.140	67	0/69	2	0:24.944	89	32	37
10.	7	M.Kruggel	1:16.127	68	0/69	2	0:33.275	91	34	35
11.	31	R.Ziarnik	1:15.738	65	0/69	2	0:46.669	90	51	18
12.	6	S.Dryden	1:17.148	64	0/69	2	0:25.012	91	29	40
13.	50	M.McCubbin	1:16.644	68	0/68	4	0:40.257	91		68
14.	16	H.Mehl	1:19.151	59	0/68	2	0:28.051	91		68
15.	46	T.Bodlien	1:16.328	65	0/65	2	0:31.716	90	25	40
16.	37	J.Stead	1:17.123	61	0/64	2	0:42.461	90		64
17.	15	A.Maistralis	1:20.129	30	0/33	1	0:29.061	92		33
18.	13	N.Maltez	1:19.194	25	0/31	1	0:24.478	90	28	3
19.	36	S.Diener	1:20.507	5	0/12	0		92		12
20.	20	A.Long	1:22.393	6	0/ 9	0		90		9
20.	39	M.Devine	1:20.962	8	0/ 9	0		90		9

Action Replays

Michal Janak (Digitech):
Michal's replay shows a nice and clean double-overtaking move before the Island Haipin.
Jan Svehlik (Bolgani):
"The replay shows my dangerous driving between two retired cars, after the last schicane, where retired 9 cars."

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Last modified: Sunday 18 January 1998 - 12:07