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MANUFACTURER SERIES
Dominating the championship with 5 straight wins, Brond achieves a complete victory with Dodge!
Test Season 2 Overview
2017/11/22

The Manufacturer Series Season 2 was heldacross 6 rounds of racing between November 12 to the 18th. Theopening race was staged on the Suzuka Circuit, with Group 4 race cars. In thisopening race, “JUN-_-JEEEEN”(McLaren), “Brond”(Dodge), “sirvia” (Porsche), and saika159-(Subaru)marked high scores, placing their names on the top of the rankings.

On Round 2 on Mount Panorama / Gr. 3, Brond skipped the race, and JUN-_-JEEEEN and sirvia rack up more points to get ahead.s-shohei_ driving for Honda and legacy0193 of BMW also joined in for their first races, scoring high points.

With the first 3 rounds completed, the top of the point rankings was JUN-_-JEEEEN at 3920 points, sirvia in second place with 3784 points, and anchormarines (Alfa Romeo) with 3554pts. Showing rock solid performance, it looked as though JUN-_-JEEEEN could go all the way to the end at the top of the rankings.

But then the tides turned in the races on Round 4 Alsace Village / Group 3. Brond who had skipped round 2, won the 4th race of the day with a very high score of 1545 points, rising to the top of the effective point rankings at 4170 points. JUN-_-JEEEEN also managed to win the 3rd race of the day with 1179 points, but that was not enough to raise the effective points total. In the following Round 5 on Driving Park Yamagiwa II, JUN-_-JEEEEN places 2nd with 1283 points, still not enough to reach 4015 points of Brond. Meanwhile, anchormarines wins the 4th race of this day,raising the effective points of anchormarines to 3980 points.

The final round was a battle of the Group 3 cars on the Brands Hatch GP. JUN-_-JEEEEN enters the first race of the day together with s-o16com (Alfa Romeo), who had come up the point rankings quickly after joining in from round 3, but JUN-_-JEEEEN is victorious.

In the following 2nd race Brond, saika159- and legacy 0193 were all matched in the same race. Brond started in 2nd place, staying close behind saika159-, eyeing an opportunity to overtake. Already in the 2nd lap, Brond catches saika159- and gets ahead at the Hawthorne Bend. Positions overturned, saika159- stays with Brond, but starts to lose focus with legacy0193 close behind. This battle for 2nd place helped Brond gradually pull away, and win this race.

As a result, Brond won a perfect 5 races out of 5, winning the series with an effective point total of 4361 points. JUN-_-JEEEEN did rise in points totals as well, but not enough to turn the tables, ending the season in 2nd place. In 3rd place overall was s-o16com who put up a great fight against JUN-_-JEEEEN. 4th was s-shohei_, saika159-in 5th, and anchormarines finishing the last race in 2nd place ended 6th in the overall point rankings.

Point Ranking (Top10)

RANK DRIVER DR SR RD.1 RD.2 RD.3 RD.4 RD.5 RD.6 TOTAL
1 Dodge Brond S S 1300 - 1325 1545 1143 1491 4361
2 Mclaren JUN-_-JEEEEN S S 1391 1341 1188 1179 1283 1439 4171
3 Alfa Romeo s-o16com A S - - 1387 1219 1268 1363 4018
4 Honda s-shohei A S - 1436 1054 1325 1201 1228 3989
5 Subaru saika159- A S 1245 1176 914 1138 1327 1412 3984
6 Alfa Romeo anchormarines A S 1160 1058 1336 975 1484 1118 3980
7 BMW legacy0193 A S - 1209 231 1382 1107 1334 3925
8 Volkswagen jipapa A S - 800 515 1305 1249 1255 3809
9 Mercedes-Benz Nik_Makozi A S 1083 906 848 1463 1171 1163 3797
10 Porsche sirvia A S 1249 1270 1265 1115 - 1034 3784

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