Sand Marble Rally 2016 - Race 6

2016 Sand Marble RallyRace 6
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Date	22 July 2016
Track	Klimduin Schoorl
Weather	Drizzle, 19 ˚C
Wind	7 m/s
Link	Sand Marble Rally 2016 Race 6 (ELIMINATION) - Jelle's Marble Runs
Podium
1st	Summer Sky
2nd	Cobra
3rd	Slimer

The sixth race of the Sand Marble Rally 2016 was held at Klimduin Schoorl on the 22nd July 2016. 33 marbles participated in the race.

Race

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Out of the gate, Summer Sky took an early lead, followed closely by Blazing Fireball in second and Oddball in third. The racers came upon a split, where most of the racers, including the top three, took the bottom line. Taking a good line through the split, Blazing Fireball managed to pass Summer Sky by the time the lanes merged. As the racers entered a small set of slalom curves, Silver Bolt managed to overtake Oddball for third. The racers entered a wide turn, where Silver Bolt was able to pass both Summer Sky and Blazing Fireball to take first. The racers entered another set of gradual curves, where Oddball dropped multiple spots, taking them out of the top five.

The racers hit a high embankment, where Blazing Fireball dropped two spots off-screen to Summer Sky and Rastafarian. As the racers entered another set of slalom curves, Blazing Fireball managed to overtake Summer Sky on a turn, who proceeded to drop into fifth. Through another turn, Blazing Fireball pulled off a second pass on Rastafarian, who had been running in second, while Summer Sky climbed back into fourth.

The racers dove through a hairpin turn, where the first four kept their positions. Off-screen, Summer Sky dropped into sixth. Challenging Rastafarian was Big Pearl, who had been hounding them in fourth for a while. Big Pearl took advantage of a bump off the wall that had happened to Rastafarian, putting on a burst of speed to pass them and get into third. As the racers wove through some gradual turns, Silver Bolt had their undoing. After having been in first for much of the race, their speed built up so much that they weren't able to make a turn, and dove right over a low wall, earning them a DNF. This gave the lead to Blazing Fireball.

As the racers went through a set of helices, Blazing Fireball was passed by Rastafarian and Big Pearl, who took first and second respectively. As the the racers went through another set of slaloms, Big Pearl snatched first from Rastafarian, before losing it moments later. The racers entered a teardrop, where the top three kept their positions, and Summer Sky crept back into fifth, chasing down Slimer for fourth. As the racers entered a split, the top three took the far slower high line, while Slimer and Summer Sky took the low line, bringing them into the lead. Summer Sky held first through the split, lost it momentarily to Slimer as they exited, but quickly passed back into fourth. The top two held a large lead over third and fourth, who happened to be Cobra and Comet. Through a set of gradual turns, Comet dropped into fifth, while Cobra passed up Slimer to take second.

Down the final stretch, Summer Sky held the lead, to come across in first place, as they had been at the very beginning of the race. Cobra came in second, having greatly benefited from taking the low line at the split. In third was Slimer, shortly before Reflektor, who had played it safe during most of the race. Next came a close train of racers. Oddball, The Flash, and Comet took fifth, sixth, and seventh, all within 21 milliseconds of each other. in eighth came Black Knight, and Olympia in ninth. Big Pearl rounded out the top ten, having dropped all the way from second because they had chosen the wrong line. This race had five DNFs, with Blue Smoke, Quicksilver, Rastafarian, Silver Bolt, and Starman failing to finish the race. Rastafarian becomes the first marble to DNF after starting P1.

Classification

Pos.	Marble	Time	Delta	Starting Pos.	Points
1st	Summer Sky	2:25.32	-	P2	30p
2nd	Cobra	2:25.83	+00.51	P20	25p
3rd	Slimer	2:26.11	+00.71	P10	21p
4th	Reflektor	2:26.66	+01.34	P33	18p
5th	Oddball	2:27.24	+01.92	P6	16p
6th	The Flash	2:27.33	+02.01	P30	15p
7th	Comet	2:27.45	+02.13	P17	14p
8th	Black Knight	2:28.98	+03.66	P27	13p
9th	Olympia	2:29.13	+03.81	P26	12p
10th	Big Pearl	2:29.49	+04.17	P8	11p
11th	Wisp of Darkness	2:30.11	+04.79	P28	10p
12th	Marbly McMarbleface	2:30.37	+05.05	P18	9p
13th	H2 Blue	2:30.61	+05.29	P13	8p
14th	Fantasy	2:30.88	+05.56	P31	7p
15th	Blazing Fireball	2:31.16	+05.84	P4	6p
16th	Crazy Cat's Eye	2:31.33	+06.01	P5	5p
17th	Mocha Madness	2:31.88	+06.56	P11	4p
18th	El Capitan	2:32.13	+06.81	P16	3p
19th	White Widow	2:32.86	+07.54	P22	2p
20th	Tarantula	2:32.98	+07.66	P24	1p
21st	Dragon's Egg	2:33.42	+08.10	P19	0p
22nd	Glassy	2:24.20	+08.88	P15
23rd	Super Turtle	2:34.43	+09.11	P12
24th	Ghost Plasma	2:35.24	+09.92	P29
25th	Pollo Loco	2:35.82	+10.50	P14
26th	Deep Ocean	2:35.89	+10.57	P3
27th	Blue Moon	2:35.96	+10.64	P21
28th	Snake's Tub	2:36.10	+10.78	P7
X	Blue Smoke	DNF		P23
	Quicksilver			P25
	Rastafarian			P1
	Silver Bolt			P9
	Starman			P32

• Note:
  • P1–P7 is on the front row
  • P8–P13 is on the second row
  • P14–P20 is on the third row
  • P21–P26 is on the fourth row
  • P27–P33 is on the back row

Championship standings after the race

	Pos.	Marble	G	S	B	Total	DNFs	Points
00	1st	Ghost Plasma	1	2	0	3	0	104p
00	2nd	Dragon's Egg	1	0	1	2	0	102p
01	3rd	Marbly McMarbleface	1	0	0	1	0	78p
01	4th	Pollo Loco	1	0	0	1	0	74p
00	5th	Tarantula	0	2	0	2	0	70p
00	6th	Big Pearl	0	0	1	1	1	70p
02	7th	The Flash	0	1	1	2	0	65p
01	8th	El Capitan	1	0	0	1	1	58p
01	9th	Wisp of Darkness	0	0	1	1	0	56p
02	10th	Glassy	0	0	0	0	0	51p
00	11th	Starman	0	0	0	0	1	45p
00	12th	Super Turtle	0	0	0	0	1	44p
03	13th	Fantasy	0	0	0	0	2	43p
01	14th	Silver Bolt	0	0	1	1	2	42p
07		Slimer	0	0	1	1	1	42p
02	16th	Rastafarian	0	0	0	0	1	40p
09	17th	Summer Sky	1	0	0	1	1	39p
03	18th	Blue Smoke	0	0	0	0	1	38p
02	19th	H2 Blue	0	0	0	0	0	36p
03	20th	Comet	0	0	0	0	1	33p
02	21st	Blazing Fireball	0	0	0	0	1	32p
01		Olympia	0	0	0	0	0	32p
01	23rd	Reflektor	0	0	0	0	4	29p
06	24th	Quicksilver	0	0	0	0	1	27p
05	25th	Mocha Madness	0	0	0	0	2	26p
06	26th	Cobra	0	1	0	1	2	25p
01	27th	Oddball	0	0	0	0	2	25p
02	28th	Black Knight	0	0	0	0	2	22p
05	29th	White Widow	0	0	0	0	2	13p
01	30th	Crazy Cat's Eye	0	0	0	0	2	8p
01		Snake's Tub	0	0	0	0	4	8p
02	32nd	Blue Moon	0	0	0	0	2	4p
01	33rd	Deep Ocean	0	0	0	0	3	0p

	The competitor advanced to the 2nd half of the season.
	The competitor has been eliminated.