Round 1 was a great success for Weaponized TMS. With an incredible turnout of 63 people, we managed to land 27th and 29th in the Driver's Championship, and continue from where we left off at 8th in the Team Championship. Unfortunately, King Hax was unable to compete due to greater commitments.

The summary for this round is simple: The battle was fought & won in qualifying, with both TechnologicMau5 and xl IC3MaN412 lx setting new personal records. Having achieved a couple practice times of 1:28.3** (invalid),  TechnologicMau5 qualified with a clean lap of 1:28.442. However, the more impressive feat was accomplished by xl IC3MaN412 lx. Having consistently struggled to reach 1:28.999 during practice, he managed to qualify with 1:28.607. This landed both drivers in Lobby C of F, where the qualifying split between pole and rear was only 0:00.374, making the competition very fierce.

Since the qualifying times were a huge success for us this round, the race results didn't turn out as well. Weaponized finished the first race in 10th & 11th out of 11, putting us at the front for the second race. Although the second race of the day brought better results, small mistakes from both drivers dropped us to the back half of the field yet again, finishing 7th & 9th out of 12. However, like I said, the battle was fought & won in qualifying, considering 12th place in Lobby C yields more points than 1st in Lobby D.

Standings after Round 1
TechnologicMau5 is in 27th with 187 points
xl IC3MaN412 lx is in 29th with 184 points
King Hax is in 93rd with 0 points
Weaponized TMS is in 8th with 371 points

So here's looking forward to this week's race at Suzuka Circuit, where we will be looking to improve our performance even further, crawling our way up the standings. Hopefully we will see a full representation of Weaponized TMS with all three drivers in the field.

Congratulations to everyone on a great opening event! Cheers to LMR VISCERAL & ShrinkingSteven for putting up a great fight.  

Live recordings of TechnologicMau5's races can be found here.

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