[54th Lap]
While Luca fought tooth and nail to save himself a spot on the podium, a bigger war of machines raged up ahead. Jimmy Damgaard and Antonio Luigi.
From the start of the race, these two had been almost inseparable, and now, with just two laps left till the checkered flag, their feud had boiled over. The Chinese GP, stretched and scorched by heat and tension, had saved its verdict for the very end!
Their first brush came out of T12, just a couple of seconds after Luca fully held P4. The shiver of the contact only twitched Jimmy's line. Luigi, who was innocent, was fully blown off course. But just like the last race, he didn't take permission racing out of the track to take back P1.
"He hit me," Luigi snapped in defense. "Big nudge. Big correction."
On the pit wall, Squadra's engineers flinched but uttered no words. Two laps to go defending P1 from their derby rivals. There was no time for grievances or courtesy.
Pwoosh!
