This weekend was the penultimate race in the ProF1r 2008 Championship, and we see yet another
great win from Ferrari driver Joni Varis.
Qualifying showed that the Patel brothers where on top form and would make it hard for title contenter
David Smith. And as Ibrahim was also in title hunt he was more then happy to see the Mclaren behind
him. Joni Varis was clear pole with a time of 1:25.561, a good 7tenths faster then 2nd place on grid man
Muhammed Patel.
David Smith struggled with traffic and on his last flying lap came up behind Petteri Kotovarra, he managed
to get passed him easy enough but into the very next corner Petteri touched the back of Davids car sending
him into gravel trap and end of qualy. David was not happy and quoted "we are fighting for the championship
and to have a driver who is not take you out when on a hotlap is poor" Petteri shortly after appolagised for the
mistake.

Qualifying

1.   J.VARIS  Ferrari 1m25.561s
2.   M.PATEL Renault 1m26.201s
3.   I.PATEL Ferrari 1m26.849s
4.   M.ALONSO Renault 1m27.208s
5.   D.SMITH Mclaren 1m27.213s  
6.   A.PANTSAR Williams 1m27.895s
7.   SKOOP Force India 1m27.936s
8.   P.KOTOVAARA Reserve 1m28.322s
9.   BAISTAN Reserve 1m28.361s
10. CDI Reserve 1m28.391s

Race

Race got of to a frantic start, with Force India driver Skoop diving inbetween cars to try make up
some places before first corner and very nearly taking out title contentder David Smith, there is
much debate still going on to what happened to Ibrahim Patel in first corner, words where
exchanged between Skoop and Ibrahim after the race but race stewards have still to come to
a desicion.

After the first corner Joni, Muhammed and Magic Alonso pulled away while David was stuck behind
the hopefull Skoop. After a load of laps David managed to get through and started chasing the fight
between Magic Alonso and his teammate Muhammed Patel where teamorders where clearly not
happening here as both where giving it there best, was great to see.
Magic came up behind the lapped car of Bradley Phillpot in his first race and struggled to noticed
the blue flags or the leading pack coming behind him and him and Alonso tangled into T1.

Meanwhile Joni was in a race of his own once again, flying away from the rest. David managed to
get onto the back of Muhammed but from there it stayed for the remainder of the race. The gap
betweem them was about 3/4 seconds, at the start and end of a stint David was clearly managing
his tyres/fuel load better and would bring the gap down to 1/2 seconds but once Muhammed got the
feel again he pulled the gap back up to 4 seconds. Very frustrating for David but theres nothing he
could do, Muhammed was just to fast for him today.

After a long race Joni Varis managed to keep the car pointing in the same direction and managed to
take his 7th race win of the season and with this taking the lead of the Championship by 1 point
to David Smith, it will all be decided in the last race of season at the Malaysian Grand Prix in
Sepang on the 30th of November.
Drvier of the day has been handed out to Stue Abbot, after a horrid time at Toyota his move to BMW
has paid of with his first points of the season in a great race, well done to Stue.

Congrats to Joni and we will all look forward to the season finale at Malaysia where the ProF1r
Championship will be decided. See you there :)