2019 2 LITRE WORLD FINAL RESULTS

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2019 2 LITRE WORLD FINAL RESULTS

Postby Jon#606 » Fri 13 Sep 2019, 11:40 pm

The showpiece of the LFS Bangers season saw a good turnout of 12 drivers taking to the iconic Arena Essex oval for the 12th running of our most prestigious honour: the 2 Litre World Final.

There were three absentees from the top 10 point scorers and with there being 5 drivers in attendance who had not qualified automatically, it was decided that there was to be no Last Chance Race as it would have been rather pointless.

The grid for the 2019 2 Litre World Final was therefore as follows (reigning champion denoted by the italic C in gold brackets next to their name):

911 Cole - - - - - - - - - - - - - 673 Sam
786 Brett - - - - - - - - - - - - - 870 Looney
997 Rik (C) - - - - - - - - - - - - 606 Jon
320 Hunter - - - - - - - - - - - 616 Jam
312 Mr. T-Bone - - - - - - - - 628 Stwarm
8 Tim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 649 Dumbo


A fight between two teammates that lasted almost all the race resulted in a new 2 Litre World Champion...

2019 2 LITRE WORLD FINAL
1st: Looney
2nd: Sam
3rd: Hunter
Other finishers: Stwarm, Mr. T-Bone, Tim, Dumbo

At long last 870 Looney picks up a 2 Litre grades title and it just so happened to be the big one. With the win he becomes the third driver after 815 Daz and 307 Foster to have won the 2 Litre & Unlimited World Finals. But it wasn't an easy race to win.

786 Brett immediately surrendered any chance of winning the title by immediately going on the oppo and taking out ex-European champion 616 Jam from contention. 911 Cole had a significant lead over the rest of the field from the off and it appeared that he would walk to his second major title. Despite the efforts of Jam, Brett and 649 Dumbo on the final bend, the Ulsterman, Looney and reigning champ 997 Rik looked content with their top 3. However, a outside-in oppo hit on the Dutchman from 786 on lap 7 changed everything as it knocked Rik off the notorious inner kerbs and rolled him, meaning that a new World Champion was due. A Dutchman replaced a Dutchman in the race order though as 320 Hunter broke into the top 3. Cole was then harassed by backmarker 606 Jon for a few laps, allowing Looney to close the gap on his WCW teammate but only made the breakthrough on lap 11 as 649 pinned 911 to the top wall, letting him through. Dumbo then stopped 870 3 laps after, swapping the places again and then back to Looney 1st Cole 2nd on lap 15. The top 2 were separated by less than half a second before absolute disaster for the reigning European champion on lap 16; having to choose between the outside and inside, 911 didn't follow 870 on the outside and received a solid head-on from a train headed by Dumbo with Jon and Brett hanging out the back, dropping him all the way down to fourth and effectively ending his chances. Looney broke free and despite some more attacks from 649, held on to claim the biggest prize. Cole was set to claim second but tragedy struck again as his clutch disintegrated and was then kerbed out by Dumbo with just 3 laps left! This meant that two newcomers made it onto a major podium as 673 Sam made a superb recovery from being spun on the first lap to get second and Hunter got third. As always, commiserations to those who completed the 22 lap race but got nothing for it.

The 2019 2 Litre World Final replay can be found here: https://www.sendspace.com/file/kz3xgr

Here are the results from the other races that took place tonight, which were all non-points and rather destructive! Well done to all the winners:

Heat 1: Hunter, Jon, Mr. T-Bone, Brett
Heat 2: Hunter, Mr. T-Bone
Heat 3: Stwarm, Hunter, Tim, Jon, Sam
Heat 4: Jon, Jam, Tim, Hunter, Brett
Heat 5: Jam, Sam, Brett, Mr. T-Bone
Heat 6: Mr. T-Bone, Brett, Jon, Tim, Sam

Final: Stwarm, Sam, Tim, Mr. T-Bone, Brett

Allcomers 1 (All Cars Ramp Race): Stwarm, Tim, Sam, Hunter
Allcomers 2: Stwarm, Sam, Tim, Mr. T-Bone, Hunter, Jon

DD: Mr. T-Bone

So, to conclude:

ImageCONGRATULATIONS TO 870 LOONEY - 2019 2 LITRE WORLD CHAMPION!Image

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The top 3 in the 2019 2 Litre World Final (from L-R: Sam (2nd), Looney (1st), Hunter (3rd)).

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