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Murderface Murders Season Opener @ Silverstone!Last lap overtake allows William Murderface to win by a chest hairThe season opener of the GTM-GTC began in Silverstone Circuit, located in what is largely a disused airfield converted to a race track. Infamous for it's long straights and rhythm-breaking S-bends and hairpins, Silverstone provides a perfect season opener for the racing season.
In qualifying, Pathmir Fost set a blazing pace of 1:49:539, followed very closely by Joey Bloe with a time of 1:49.552. This front-row lineup were thus widely expected to quickly pull away from the competition, as the next car down was Juan Lopez, a full six tenths of a second off the pace. Annoyingly for Andrew Baker he qualified the race in 25th, dead last, nine seconds off the pace. Not even the second slowest car in qualifying was that slow, and that was infuriating for Baker.
However the odds swung about right at the start of the race, as right in the first turn, Bloe ran wide at Turn 1 and fell all the way down from 2nd place all the way down to last, while Yoshioka Miyafuji, the annoying Japanese rookie, had blown past a good number of drivers to move herself up to seventh position. William Murderface got off to a murderous start as well, managing to catch the top pair at the time - Pathmir Fost and Alex Harrison. Throughout the course of the race, these three drivers would continuously trade places as if it were a bad game of musical chairs.
Meanwhile, towards the back, drivers left and right were running three and even four wide trying to get past one another - a miracle that they didn't pile up into one another. Drivers like Mio Sakamoto, Foe Tepex, Juan Lopez, and Andrew Baker all fighting for 17th like it was bloody murder. Unfortunately for Joey Bloe, he didn't move many places up from this. However, battles were unfolding up and down the field, and by some miracle there had been next to no car to car contact.
With drivers especially those in 12th and below, it became incredibly difficult to tell if drivers would move up the ranks or down them - things would not be 100% definite until the pit window, on laps 10 and 11, where chaos reigned. On lap 8, Dustin Rockso and William Murderface opted to wait until the next lap to pit in, as nearly everyone else came into the pits. This is where things went from bad to worse for some teams - particularly for Jonzu the Unbeatable, who was about to be stuck into a situation where defeat was pretty much certain. Jack Smith had pulled in front of Jonzu just as he was about to pass by him, stuffing Jonzu into the pit wall. That blew Jonzu's motor beyond repair. Among other pit lane antic victims include Yoshioka Miyafuji, who was pulling out of her pit stall only to be greeted with some four wheel buttsex from Joey Bloe. Although her car wasn't completely wrecked, there was no way she'd maintain contention.
Unfortunately for Team Toki, consisting of Murderface and Rockso, their pit strategy was not the wisest, leaving Murderface to be passed by Fost and Harrison as he left the pits. Rockso fell down the ranks behind Miyafuji and Alex Larrain who was running 7th and 8th at the time. Slowly, however, Miyafuji faltered towards the end, and was left a sitting duck as both Larrain and Rockso overtook her in lap 15, without much of a contest. At this point in the race, it was largely Pathmir Fost leading, with Alex Harrison and William Murderface battling for 2nd, mere quarter-car-lengths behind.
That was, until Murderface managed to get Harrison to step a little bit out of his comfort zone, allowing Murderface past to make a great showdown for the last two laps. Throughout those two laps, Murderface and Fost dueled until halfway into the final lap, when Fost finally fell apart and allowed Murderface to stab right through the gaping hole in his defense. He would try to make a last lap, last turn counterattack, but to no avail, and Harrison's attack on that failed, relegating him to 3rd. However they were behind by less than a second.
Race Result:
| RANK | GAIN | DRIVER | TEAM | RESULT | POINTS |
| 1st | +7 | William Murderface | Team Toki | Winner | 50 |
| 2nd | -1 | Pathmir Fost | Kamikazi Cactus (Privateer) | +0.76 | 45 |
| 3rd | +1 | Alex Harrison | Team SKBT | +1.08 | 40 |
| 4th | +1 | Damon Mack | URT | +4.42 | 37 |
| 5th | +5 | Dustin Rockso | Team Toki | +9.03 | 34 |
| 6th | +3 | Alex Larrain | Liervaik Motorsports | +11.19 | 31 |
| 7th | +11 | Yoshioka Miyafuji | Mecha Loli Autosport | +15.72 | 28 |
| 8th | +9 | Foe Tepex | Team Xtreemer | +19.38 | 25 |
| 9th | +10 | Vladmir Hydrov | Team Hydrov (Privateer) | +23.26 | 22 |
| 10th | -4 | Willy Makeit | Team SKBT | +24.11 | 19 |
| 11th | -4 | Nick Forrest | North Star Racing | +24.79 | 16 |
| 12th | +1 | Badnik Ninetysix | Cave Story Corvettes (Privateer) | +25.58 | 13 |
| 13th | +7 | Jeff Baker | Baker Motorsports | +30.09 | 10 |
| 14th | +11 | Andrew Baker | Baker Motorsports | +33.64 | 8 |
| 15th | +9 | Brandon Barnes | Dragon Racers (Privateer) | +35.50 | 6 |
| 16th | -5 | Jack Smith | Team RCT3 | +38.19 | 5 |
| 17th | +5 | Mio Sakamoto | Mecha Loli Autosport | +39.39 | 4 |
| 18th | -6 | Jason Nguyen | Team RCT3 | +40.58 | 3 |
| 19th | -16 | Juan Lopez | Liervaik Motorsports | +40.68 | 2 |
| 20th | +1 | Mario Androidy | Kill343gs Racing | +43.69 | 1 |
| 21st | +2 | KePo Killan | Kill343gs Racing | +44.47 | 0 |
| 22nd | -20 | Joey Bloe | URT | +45.13 | 0 |
| 23rd | -7 | Max Betancourt | North Star Racing | +45.76 | 0 |
| 24th | -10 | The Xtreemer | Team Xtreemer | +48.75 | 0 |
| - | -10 | Jonzu the Unbeatable | Pokemon Race Team (Privateer) | KO | 0 |
Team Standings:
(Combined total of each two-car team's total points)
| RANK | GAIN | TEAM | POINTS |
| 1st | = | Team Toki | 84 |
| 2nd | = | Team SKBT | 59 |
| 3rd | = | URT | 37 |
| 4th | = | Liervaik Motorsports | 33 |
| 5th | = | Mecha Loli Autosports | 32 |
| 6th | = | Team Xtreemer | 25 |
| 7th | = | Baker Motorsports | 18 |
| 8th | = | North Star Racing | 16 |
| 9th | = | Team RCT3 | 8 |
| 10th | = | Kill343gs Racing | 1 |
Privateer Team Standings
For those guys with only a single car. Note that you earn points based on how you place based among single-car teams only!
| RANK | GAIN | TEAM | POINTS |
| 1st | = | Kamikaze Cactus | 50 |
| 2nd | = | Team Hydrov | 45 |
| 3rd | = | Cave Story Corvettes | 40 |
| 4th | = | Dragon Racers | 37 |
| 5th | = | Pokemon Racing Team | 0 |
Manufacturer Standings
Standings for each car maker. Note that this standing scores based on the WORST place; so if you finish last, no points!
Points scoring: 1st = 5 points, 2nd = 3 points, 3rd = 1 point, 4th = none.
| RANK | GAIN | MAKE | POINTS |
| 1st | = | Jaguar | 5 |
| 2nd | = | Dodge | 3 |
| 3rd | = | Chevrolet | 1 |
| 4th | = | Ford | 0 |
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