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IMO - TTM 2026 - R4: Imola 1992

Jaroslav Cerny secured his first victory of the Championship ahead of Jayden HW, while Florian Masse emerged from a prolonged three-car contest to complete the podium. The result put the Nissan driver one point clear at the head of the table.

A first victory with immediate consequence

Jaroslav Cerny chose a useful moment to open his winning account. Starting from pole position in the Nissan Skyline R32, he led at the end of every one of the 33 laps and beat Jayden HW's Holden VL Commodore by 3.540 seconds. He also set the fastest lap, in 1:50.478. Taken together, these were the credentials of a thoroughly earned victory, though the Holden's presence prevented the result from becoming a solitary Nissan affair.

The first two places retained the same occupants throughout the race. Jayden started second and held that position at every lap's end, his notably regular pace giving the pursuit a steady character. Their contest included contact in the Tosa section, but the eventual order remained Cerny ahead of the Australian.

For Cerny, the significance extended well beyond the day's result. He had arrived fifth in the Championship, sharing that place on points. He left as its leader. Behind the two front-runners, meanwhile, the remaining podium position required a rather less orderly settlement.

Masse earns the third place

Florian Masse's Ford Sierra RS500, Attila Diner's Audi V8 quattro and Adam Celárek's Holden VL Commodore supplied the race's most persistent contest. From the third lap through the penultimate circuit, the three remained covered by less than five seconds. Their proximity gave third place a continuing importance quite apart from the Championship interests involved.

Diner made the strongest initial progress, rising from sixth on the grid to third by the end of the opening lap. Celárek occupied fourth, with Masse advancing from seventh to fifth during the first two laps. The Frenchman moved ahead of Celárek on lap eight and then confronted Diner for the podium place.

The ninth lap brought a particularly brisk exchange. Masse passed the Audi in the Tosa section; Diner immediately reclaimed third there, only for Masse to move ahead again shortly afterwards. The Sierra held the advantage at the end of the lap, with Celárek now fourth and Diner fifth.

That settled the identity of the third-placed man, but not the character of his afternoon. Masse and Celárek ran within two seconds of one another over a 23-lap spell, and the wider three-car contest continued deep into the race. Diner moved back ahead of Celárek on lap 27. Masse finished third, Diner fourth and Celárek fifth, the Sierra's climb from the fourth row rewarded with a podium and valuable Championship ground.

Places briefly won

Further back, Kuba Palubicki twice found that gaining a place was only the beginning of the business. His Nissan Skyline R32 had risen from twelfth on the grid to fifth at the end of the opening lap, but the later exchanges proved less profitable.

On lap 22 he passed Valentin Knechtel's Audi V8 quattro for seventh in the Villeneuve section. The advantage was short-lived. Palubicki went off the road in the Tosa section, and Knechtel moved back ahead there moments later. Knechtel retained seventh in the final result.

Palubicki subsequently disputed ninth with NeckR888's Holden VL Commodore. On lap 27 the Nissan moved ahead in the Variante Bassa section; an excursion by Palubicki in that same section followed, and NeckR888 then recovered the place. The Holden finished ninth and the Nissan tenth. These were brief, distinct exchanges rather than one uninterrupted duel, but they gave the lower reaches of the top ten some pointed action.

Wu's steady advance

Nick Wu's Holden VL Commodore made one of the more substantial advances through the field. From 29th on the grid, Wu was already 21st after the opening lap and had reached seventeenth by the end of the fourth. By lap seven he was fifteenth, with the greater part of the race still to run.

Thereafter his progress was more measured. He spent much of the middle distance around fourteenth and fifteenth before moving into thirteenth in the latter part of the race. Twelfth followed on lap 29, and there he finished after completing all 33 laps. The overall gain of seventeen places made this a worthwhile result well outside the podium contest.

One point at the head

With the Championship's discarded result taken into account, Cerny now has 105 points. Celárek and Masse share second place on 104. Thus the winner's first success has displaced Celárek from the lead, while Masse's hard-earned third place has brought him level with the former leader.

The narrowness of that position gives proper weight to the contest behind the winning Nissan. Masse gained more than a podium by keeping the Sierra ahead, and Celárek's late loss of fourth to Diner formed part of an afternoon in which his Championship advantage disappeared. Four of the six rounds are now complete.

Cerny's first Championship victory has therefore produced an immediate change at the top: two rounds remain, with a single point separating the new leader from both of his nearest pursuers.

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F1 1970 Championship 2
AIR - F1 1970 - R4 - Buenos Aires

Florian Masse led at the end of every lap of the 33-lap race, while the fight behind him left the Championship leaders level on points.

A lead established early

Kasperi Sirén had pole position, but by the end of the opening lap he was ninth and Florian Masse was in front. Masse remained the leader at the end of each of the 33 laps, bringing his Formula RSS 1970 V8 home for victory. It was a commanding result, though the order behind him was far from settled.

The first lap gave the race its shape. Sirén had ground to recover before he could challenge for a place on the podium, and David Czemmel was soon among those contesting second. On lap five Czemmel passed Rolf Biber on the Recta del Lago to take that position. Masse, meanwhile, continued to head the field as the arguments behind him drew in new contenders.

Second place changes hands

Sirén's recovery brought him into direct contention with Czemmel in the second half of the race. Their contest produced repeated changes of position rather than one decisive move. Czemmel passed Sirén for second on the Recta del Lago on lap 21, and took the place there again on lap 22. Sirén responded on the Recta del Fondo on lap 24, then passed Czemmel on the Recta del Lago on lap 26.

That last observed exchange proved important to the result. Sirén finished second, with Czemmel third, giving the Hungarian a place on the podium after his earlier spell in second. Sirén also set the fastest lap, 1:48.052. Neither his pace nor the work required to recover from that first-lap setback displaced Masse from the lead, but it gave Sirén a hard-earned second place when the race was over.

Andrew's advance

Andrew made the most striking early advance. Starting 14th, he was fifth by the end of lap one. His progress was not simply a matter of positions changing elsewhere: on lap two he passed Czemmel on the Recta del Lago, only for Czemmel to pass him later that same lap in the Entrada a los Mixtos corner. It was a brief exchange within a much longer climb through the order.

Sirén passed Andrew for third on lap ten as his own recovery continued. Andrew nevertheless finished fourth, ten places above his starting position. His race supplied another measure of how thoroughly the opening order had been rearranged beneath Masse, even while the leader's place remained constant.

A long contest farther back

Rolf Biber and Richard Rossier, ultimately classified 12th after completing 32 laps, spent much of the race in close company. For 22 successive laps they were within two seconds of one another at the end of each lap. The advantage changed hands several times; Biber was ahead by the end of lap 31 after another late reversal.

Rossier then lost five places on lap 32, a lap that included an incident and a pit-lane visit. Biber completed the full distance in sixth. Their prolonged contest had occupied a very different part of the race from the struggle for second, but it gave the middle order its own persistent point of interest.

Level at the top

The victory also changed the Championship picture. Sirén had arrived three points ahead of Masse; after four of the scheduled six rounds, Masse has taken a share of the lead. Both stand on 117 points under the scoring rule now in effect. Sirén's second place kept him alongside the winner in the table, rather than behind him, despite Masse's uninterrupted run at the head of this race.

Masse left with the win and a place at the top of the Championship, but not a points advantage. With two rounds still to run, the order at the front remains open.

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NUR - TTM 2026 - R3: Nürburgring 24h Circuit

A lead contested across seven laps ended with Adam Celárek 0.095 seconds ahead of Jaroslav Cerny. The Holden driver also left the third Championship round at the head of the table.

A lead that would not stay settled

Adam Celárek's victory at the Nürburgring was built around a lead he repeatedly had to reclaim. The Holden VL Commodore driver passed Marc Orós for second in the Yokohama-S section on the opening lap, then challenged Ayrton Titos for first on lap two. Celárek went ahead, Titos responded, and Celárek briefly regained the lead before another counterattack put Titos back in front in the Dunlop Kurve section. Later in the lap, near Antoniusbuche, Celárek passed again and completed the lap as the leader. Orós subsequently joined the fight in his Mercedes-Benz, taking first on lap four. Celárek answered in Kesselchen, Orós regained the advantage near Steilstrecke, and Celárek was back ahead before the lap ended. Their exchanges continued on lap five: Orós moved into first in Hatzenbach before Celárek reclaimed the position in Kesselchen. Celárek led at the end of six of the seven laps, but that record conceals how often his position had been challenged.

Cerny comes through

While Orós fought for the lead, Jaroslav Cerny was challenging him for second. Cerny's Nissan Skyline GT-R moved ahead in the Advan Bogen section on lap five, only for Orós to respond almost immediately. Cerny finally secured second with another pass in Kesselchen on lap six, setting up a close finish with Celárek. At the chequered flag, the Holden crossed the line just 0.095 seconds ahead of the Nissan. Orós finished third, another 2.032 seconds behind Cerny, leaving the leading three separated by only 2.127 seconds after seven laps. Titos, a central figure in the early battle for first, finished sixth.

A contest further back

FMG and Pascal Reihe provided another sustained contest through the middle of the race. FMG was ahead at the end of lap four, Reihe had reversed their order by the end of lap five, and FMG was back in front after lap six. For several laps they raced within a closely matched group, although their final positions were much further apart. FMG brought his Nissan home 12th after starting 23rd, gaining eleven places from his grid position. Reihe finished 26th. His late race included off-track moments with losses of speed on laps six and seven, and his final lap took 10:19.289, compared with a best lap of 9:08.387.

The Championship turns

Celárek's first victory in this Championship also moved him to the top of the standings. He had arrived fifth, with Ayrton Titos and Florian Masse sharing the lead. He left the Nürburgring on 74 points, three ahead of Orós. Cerny's second place put him fifth in the standings on 65 points. With three of the scheduled six rounds complete, Celárek now leads a Championship in which the leading five are separated by just nine points. His winning margin on Sunday was considerably smaller: 0.095 seconds after seven laps of racing.

On a course where the named sections of a single lap marked several distinct contests, the classification concealed much of the movement that produced it. Celárek's advantage was not that he was left alone, but that he was still in front when there were no laps left.

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F1 1970 Championship 2
JAR - F1 1970 - R3 - Jarama

A four-car contest became a duel for victory as Kasperi Sirén beat Drik Crozet by 0.749 seconds in the third Championship round.

Four in contention

For much of the first part of the 41-lap race, there was little room between the men who would decide it. From lap three through lap 15, Kasperi Sirén, Drik Crozet, Andrew and Simone Porcu ran as a group covered by less than four seconds. Crozet had started from pole, but Sirén was ahead by the end of the opening lap. What followed was not a solitary leader's race: the three behind him stayed near enough to keep both victory and the remaining podium places in question.

All 13 starters drove the Formula RSS 1970 V8, leaving the contest to be settled between identical cars. Porcu and Andrew were particularly close in the early running, less than two seconds apart through a long succession of laps. Their fight was part of the leading group's story before it became a separate contest for third.

The lead changes hands

Crozet made his challenge count on lap 21, passing Sirén for the lead. Sirén answered on the following lap, moving back ahead in the vicinity of Fangio. The exchange gave the race its decisive turn, though it did not settle it. Crozet remained within striking distance in the closing stages, while Sirén kept the advantage he had recovered.

At the flag the difference was just 0.749 seconds, with both men having completed the full distance. Sirén's victory was his second successive Championship win. Crozet's brief spell in front, followed by his pursuit to the finish, made this a much closer affair than a reading of the lap-by-lap lead alone would suggest.

Andrew takes the third place

Behind them, Andrew's long argument with Porcu reached its turning point on lap 25. He passed Porcu near Bugatti to take third and went on to complete the podium, with Crozet only 0.996 seconds ahead of him at the finish. Andrew also set the fastest lap, 1:27.758, a measure of the pace he had brought to the contest at the front.

Porcu finished fourth. He had been within reach of the leaders during the early four-car phase, and his result was a reminder that the battle for victory had initially involved more than the two men who eventually settled it.

A climb through the field

There was another sustained contest farther back. Tommie van-Ostade started 12th and finished sixth, but his progress was not simply a matter of positions gained. Mika Hakala, up from 11th on the grid to sixth by the end of the opening lap, remained close to him for much of the middle portion of the race. Van-Ostade was ahead by the end of lap 19.

Richard Rossier then provided the later opposition. The two ran close through a long stretch of the second half, until van-Ostade passed him near Fangio on lap 36 for sixth. Rossier finished seventh and Hakala eighth. Between Hakala's opening-lap advance and van-Ostade's eventual place, the contest behind the leading four had its own changes of fortune.

The Championship at halfway

The victory also changed the Championship lead. Sirén and Florian Masse had arrived level on points; after three of the six rounds, Sirén heads the table with 80, three ahead of Masse. Crozet stands third on 71. For Sirén, the significance of this narrow win lies in both parts of that result: he withstood a renewed challenge on the circuit and left the round alone at the head of the Championship.

Half the programme remains. This race showed how little separated the leading cars, and how quickly an advantage won in one lap could have to be defended over many more.

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OES - TTM 2026 - R2: Österreichring

The pole-sitter lost ground on the opening lap, then took the lead after halfway to win round two. Jayden HW and Adam Celárek completed the podium.

The lead changes hands

Florian Masse started from pole, but his Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth was only fourth at the end of the opening lap. Jayden HW led in his Holden, before Adam Celárek put another Holden ahead by the end of lap two. Celárek held the lead through the first half of the 31-lap race, making this a victory that Masse had to retrieve rather than one he could control from the start.

The decisive change came on lap 18, when Masse moved ahead of Celárek. He remained in front to take his first win of the Championship. HW reached the flag second and Celárek third, the two Holdens following home the Ford. Celárek nevertheless had the fastest lap, his 1:55.088 just 0.054 seconds quicker than Masse's best. The result gave the winner the greater prize, but not a monopoly on the afternoon's pace.

Ground recovered

Kasperi Sirén's fourth place was another result shaped by the early laps. His Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II stood only 11th at the end of lap two; over the remaining distance he worked back into the leading four. That recovery put him immediately behind the podium trio without obscuring how much ground had been lost at the outset.

The opening exchanges were less kind to the Championship's existing leader, Ayrton Titos. An incident at the Texaco Schikane on lap two accompanied a fall from fifth to eighth. He completed the full distance in seventh. There is no need to make more of that episode than the order shows: he lost places early, recovered one in the eventual classification, and saw a new winner emerge ahead of him.

Four cars in company

Behind the principal contest, a compact group gave the later laps much of their character. From lap 18 through lap 31, meisterJaeger, SDH-M ~ HappyKojot, Potatohedron and DJMD19 ran within five seconds of one another. The group had changed its composition as the race developed, with meisterJaeger and DJMD19 already closely engaged before the other two joined them.

HappyKojot and DJMD19 repeatedly traded their order in the closing stages. DJMD19 moved ahead by the end of lap 27, HappyKojot reclaimed the advantage on the next lap, and there was another exchange before HappyKojot was back ahead on lap 31. HappyKojot took ninth, with Potatohedron between him and the 11th-placed DJMD19 in the classification. Their contest did not decide the podium, but it ensured that the race behind it remained unsettled.

A shared Championship lead

Masse's win has an immediate consequence beyond the result. Having stood 16th before this race, he now shares the Championship lead with Titos on 40 points after two of six rounds. The one-result discard already in force leaves Titos's earlier score as his Championship total despite his seventh place here; Masse's winning score brings him level, not clear.

That distinction matters at this early stage. Titos remains at the head of the table, but he now has company there from a driver who began the day well down it. Masse's route from fourth at the end of lap one to the victory is the reason the picture looks different tonight.

The second round offered two measures of a racing afternoon: Celárek's long tenure in front and Masse's timely answer to it. With four races still to run, neither the shared lead nor the finishing order settles the wider question.

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F1 1970 Championship 2
TRM - F1 1970 - R2 - Mont Tremblant

Kasperi Sirén won the second Championship round from pole position, leading all 40 laps while the fight behind him shaped the podium. He and Florian Masse now share the points lead.

A lead held from the start

Kasperi Sirén gave his rivals no lap on which to take command. Starting from pole in the Formula RSS 1970 V8, he led at the completion of each of the 40 laps and took his first victory of this Championship. He also set the fastest lap, a 1:31.401, just 0.058 seconds quicker than Florian Masse's best. There was little to separate their outright pace, even if Sirén held the race lead throughout.

That distinction mattered in a field of 19 drivers all using the same car. For nine laps early in the race, Sirén, Masse, Drik Crozet and Simone Porcu ran within five seconds of one another. Sirén remained in front of that group, but the places behind him were still to be settled.

The places behind the leader

Crozet and Porcu supplied the closest sustained contest among the leading four. They ran within two seconds of each other for much of the opening phase, with Porcu ahead until Crozet moved in front by the end of lap 11. The pair remained close for several more laps before Crozet secured third place and Porcu took fourth.

Masse, meanwhile, held on to second ahead of Crozet. He had arrived as the Championship leader and as winner of the opening round, and his race here was hardly a surrender of that position. Sirén had the victory and the fastest lap, but Masse completed the full distance in second, with Crozet completing the podium.

Rebessi comes through

Further back, Stefano Robert Rebessi made the most conspicuous advance. From 24th on the starting grid, he was already 18th after the first lap. His progress continued over the full 40-lap distance, and he finished eighth. Six places gained in the opening lap did not account for the whole journey; Rebessi kept moving up as the race developed.

It was an appreciable result in a race whose leading order had offered few openings to Sirén's pursuers. Rebessi's climb provided a different measure of how much position could still be won beyond the front group.

A shared Championship lead

Sirén came to this second round sixth in the Championship and leaves it level with Masse at the head of the table, each on 40 points. The rule that sets aside one result per driver currently leaves Sirén's victory as his scoring result, while Masse's opening-round victory remains his. Thus Masse's second place did not increase his points total, though it kept him alongside the new race winner.

Four of the six rounds remain. Sirén has established himself as a winner and drawn level with the driver who led coming in; Masse has answered a race spent behind him with another place on the podium.

The result leaves the early Championship with two distinct claims at its head: Masse's opening victory and Sirén's uninterrupted lead here. The next round will test which of them can carry that form beyond a single afternoon.

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HOR - TTM 2026 - R1: Horsma Raceway

Ayrton Titos led every lap of the Championship opener, yet Marc Orós kept the winning Mercedes-Benz under pressure to the end. Kasperi Sirén completed an all-Mercedes podium after a 29-lap contest decided by 0.623 seconds.

A lead never surrendered

The first points race of the new Championship produced an unusually exacting victory at Horsma Raceway. Ayrton Titos converted pole position into the win, leading at each recorded passage of the 29 laps, but the bare fact of command did not make his afternoon a comfortable one. Marc Orós was never allowed far from the Spaniard's Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II, and at the chequered flag the two were separated by only 0.623 seconds.

Titos had the advantage from the outset, but the race soon acquired the shape of a three-car affair. Kasperi Sirén joined Titos and Orós in a leading group which had settled into place by the seventh lap and remained contained within five seconds for the rest of the race. There was no room for a lapse among the leading Mercedes drivers: the Finn's presence made the matter more than a private duel, while Orós remained the immediate threat to the leader.

Thus Titos had to defend a lead which, though uninterrupted, was under constant examination. He reached the flag first after 29 laps, Orós second, and Sirén third. Sirén also set the fastest lap, a 2:05.145, to underline the pace of the leading trio.

The pressure of the closing laps

The closing phase belonged to Titos and Orós. The latter remained within two seconds of the leader across the final portion of the race, preserving the contest when a lesser pursuit might have accepted second place. The final margin was scarcely more than half a second, and gave the opening round a finish of rare closeness.

For Titos, the significance lay in the combination of authority and restraint. He had led throughout, but the reward for maintaining that position against Orós's persistent challenge was not merely the first trophy of the campaign. The victory gives him 40 points and the early Championship lead, three clear of Orós on 37. Sirén's third place brings him 34 points, leaving the opening table as close as the race itself had suggested.

There are five races still to come, and a first round can establish little beyond an order of strength on one day. Yet the Horsma Raceway result has placed the three Mercedes men at the centre of the early argument, with Titos having made the first and most valuable statement.

The Nissan contest behind

Behind the podium, Kuba Palubicki and Jacopo Hrynecko conducted a sustained Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R contest for fourth. They were close from the seventh lap to the twentieth, and exchanged the advantage twice in the course of their struggle. Hrynecko moved ahead before half-distance, only for Palubicki to reclaim the position on lap 18.

That proved the decisive alteration. Palubicki finished fourth and Hrynecko fifth, both completing the full distance, while Attila Diner's Audi V8 quattro Evo followed them home in sixth. The Nissan pair could not intrude upon the leading Mercedes group, but their contest ensured that the race retained a second point of tension once the order at the front had begun to settle.

Masse rises from the back

Florian Masse supplied the notable recovery of the afternoon. Starting 30th in the Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth, he had risen to 20th by the end of the first lap and continued to work forward through the field. His eventual 16th place represented a gain of 14 positions, an emphatic result in a large 39-car opening field.

It was a drive of a different character from the leading battle, concerned less with a single opponent than with finding space and preserving momentum amid the traffic. Masse completed all 29 laps, and his progress offered a useful counterpoint to the measured contest at the head of the order.

Horsma Raceway had provided a sharp beginning rather than a settled verdict. Titos has the lead, Orós has shown that it will be contested closely, and Sirén's speed ensures that neither Spaniard can regard the next round as a two-man affair.

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F1 1970 Championship 2
MEX - F1 1970 - R1 - Mexico

Florian Masse won the first round of the Championship at MEX - F1 1970 - R1 - Mexico, assuming command when Simone Porcu's promising race unravelled at half-distance. Willphaizer and FMG completed a closely contested podium.

A lead lost at Espiral

The new Championship began with a full field of 25 Formula RSS 1970 V8 cars and a race whose early order offered little permanence. FMG had started from pole, but by the end of the opening lap Simone Porcu was in front, with the pole-sitter third. Porcu retained the advantage through the opening exchanges, while Florian Masse, FMG and Willphaizer formed a compact leading group from lap 3 to lap 17.

It was Porcu's race to lose until the thirteenth lap. An incident at Espiral dropped him from first to twentieth, and Masse emerged as the new leader. Thereafter the Frenchman made the position his own, completing all 36 laps to win the Championship opener. Porcu's final classification of twelfth gave scant indication of the authority with which he had controlled the first third of the afternoon.

The podium contest

Behind the changing leader, FMG and Willphaizer remained central figures in the front-running contest. Along with Masse, they had run within five seconds of one another for fifteen successive laps in the early and middle portions of the race, a sufficiently close formation to ensure that Porcu's misfortune did not make the result a foregone conclusion.

Willphaizer brought his car home second, three points behind Masse in the first table of the season. FMG, who had begun from pole and was still second late in the race, slipped to third on lap 27 after incidents at Espiral. He nevertheless reached the flag to preserve a podium which reflected his pace over the greater part of the distance. Drik Crozet was fourth and David Czemmel fifth, both completing the full 36 laps.

Sirén's long return

Kasperi Sirén supplied the afternoon's most striking recovery. He had been second at the end of lap 2, only to fall to twenty-fourth on lap 3 following an incident at Peraltada. From there he worked steadily back through the field, and his eventual sixth place was a considerable return from a position which might easily have ended his afternoon.

The Finn's speed was beyond question. His 1:41.305 was the fastest lap of the race, only a little over five-hundredths quicker than Masse's best effort. That combination of the fastest lap and a sixteenth-place-to-sixth recovery lent particular substance to Sirén's points haul, even if the first result of a long Championship can settle nothing by itself.

Progress through the field

Fabien Lauzet also made a substantial advance, rising from seventeenth on the grid to finish seventh. Stefano Bucci was eighth and Stefano Robert Rebessi ninth, while Davide Ricciardi completed the top ten after a late contest with Rebessi that changed order several times. Rebessi reclaimed ninth on the final lap.

Czemmel's fifth position had been earned amid an earlier, sustained contest with Andrew. The pair exchanged the advantage more than once in the first dozen laps, before Andrew later lost ground after incidents on lap 27. Czemmel thus joined the leading six as one of the men to have completed the full distance.

Masse leaves MEX - F1 1970 - R1 - Mexico with 40 points and the first Championship lead, Willphaizer on 37 and FMG on 34. It is only the opening entry in a six-race campaign, but the afternoon established a useful first impression: the front of the field is closely matched, and a moment's disorder can alter the complexion of a race completely.

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