Sand Marble Rally 2017 - Race 12

Sand Marble Rally 2017Race 12
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The marbles in the starting gate
Date	1 December 2017
Track	't Peeske Montferland
Weather	Sunny, 7˚ C
Wind	3 Bft, 9 Knots (gentle breeze)
Sand Condition	Wet sand after some rainy days
Podium
1st	El Capitan
2nd	Slimer
3rd	Red Number 3

The twelfth race of 2017 was the penultimate round of the season. It was held in 't Peeske Montferland.

Before the Race

Before the start of the race it was announced that there would be a 13th Race with double points on offer. This meant that the championship would be more open. It was done in a attempt to make the title decider more exciting.

Race

Report

The race was won by El Capitan who was able to make a lunge into the lead and win in front of Slimer and Red Number 3. Dragon's Egg was able to come back after losing the lead by taking the low line midway through the race, finishing fourth ahead of Summer Sky. Nemo finished in a sixth. Glassy who was running in first when going onto the final big boulevard to the finish fell back to seventh ahead of Blizzard Blaster. H2 Blue beat Comet by one hundredth of a second and they got ninth and tenth respectively. Further back it was Deep Ocean in eleventh in front of Crazy Cat's Eye, Pollo Loco. Meanwhile championship leader Quicksilver came in fourteenth, in front of Lollipop, Big Pearl and Ghost Plasma. Wisp of Darkness came in eighteenth and Black Knight in nineteenth. Fantasy was the only marble who didn't finish.

Classification

Pos.	Marble	Time	Delta	Starting Pos.	Points
1st	El Capitan	1:45.34	-	P7	20p
2nd	Slimer	1:46.45	+01.11	P3	17p
3rd	Red Number 3	1:46.68	+01.34	P19	14p
4th	Dragon's Egg	1:46.84	+01.50	P6	12p
5th	Summer Sky	1:46.87	+01.53	P2	11p
6th	Nemo	1:47.40	+02.06	P15	10p
7th	Glassy	1:48.07	+02.73	P5	9p
8th	Blizzard Blaster	1:48.34	+03.00	P4	8p
9th	H2 Blue	1:48.65	+03.31	P1	7p
10th	Comet	1:48.66	+03.32	P12	6p
11th	Deep Ocean	1:50.64	+05.30	P20	5p
12th	Crazy Cat's Eye	1:51.29	+05.95	P10	4p
-	GHOST	1:51.36	+06.02	N/A
13th	Pollo Loco	1:51.48	+06.14	P17	3p
14th	Quicksilver	1:51.69	+06.35	P9	2p
15th	Lollipop	1:52.12	+06.78	P14	1p
16th	Big Pearl	1:52.23	+06.89	P13	0p
17th	Ghost Plasma	1:52.42	+07.08	P18
18th	Wisp of Darkness	1:53.11	+07.77	P16
19th	Black Knight	1:54.57	+09.23	P8
20th	Fantasy	DNF		P11

• Note:
  • P1–P7 is on the front row
  • P8–P13 is on the second row
  • P14–P20 is on the back row

Championship standings after the race

	Pos.	Marble	G	S	B	Total	DNFs	Points
00	1st	Quicksilver	2	2	2	6	0	125p
00	2nd	Red Number 3	2	1	1	4	1	112p
01	3rd	Slimer	2	1	0	3	2	102p
01	4th	Dragon's Egg	1	0	1	2	0	101p
02	5th	El Capitan	1	0	1	2	2	99p
00	6th	Glassy	0	1	1	2	0	89p
02	7th	Crazy Cat's Eye	1	0	1	2	1	87p
02	8th	Blizzard Blaster	0	1	1	2	2	81p
02	9th	Summer Sky	0	0	1	1	1	80p
02	10th	Fantasy	0	1	0	1	3	76p
02	11th	Black Knight	0	1	0	1	0	75p
02	12th	Nemo	0	1	0	1	4	74p
01	13th	Pollo Loco	1	1	0	2	2	71p
01	14th	Lollipop	0	1	0	1	2	68p
00	15th	Deep Ocean	0	0	0	0	1	63p
01	16th	H2 Blue	0	1	1	2	2	60p
01	17th	Wisp of Darkness	1	0	0	1	1	53p
00	18th	Big Pearl	1	0	1	2	4	52p
00	19th	Ghost Plasma	0	0	1	1	4	46p
00	20th	Comet	0	0	0	0	2	35p

Green: Able to win Sand Marble Rally 2017.
Orange: Not able to win Sand Marble Rally 2017, but top 3 still possible.