Race Report
Result
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Semi-Pro Results
Qualifying - Pole time last season: 1:37.909 (Rene Smit)Pos Driver Team Time Diff. Pts -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Oliver Roberts Digitech 1:38.489 20 2. Markus Kruggel Wild 13 1:39.113 +0.624 16 3. Steffen Diener Roadrunner 1:39.454 +0.965 14 4. Martin Devine Enigma 1:39.468 +0.979 12 5. Reinhold Schatzer RST Racing 1:39.519 +1.030 10 6. Alan Strang Team Ecosse 1:39.561 +1.072 8 7. Ignacio Garcia IGC Racing Team 1:39.631 +1.142 6 8. Nuno Maltez Maverick 1:39.758 +1.269 5 9. Hans Gunnar Hansen FORT-Jiuqi 1:39.832 +1.343 4 10. Michal Janak Digitech 1:39.842 +1.353 3 11. Axel Bruns Wild 13 1:40.321 +1.832 2 12. Juha Hyvonen FORT-Jiuqi 1:40.365 +1.876 1 13. Andrew Clark Ant Hill Mob Racing 1:41.382 +2.893 14. Derek Waters Maverick 1:41.970 +3.481 15. Paul Branney Team Ecosse 1:41.998 +3.509
Race - 44 Laps - Winning time last season: 1h19m39.142 (Rene Smit)It was Markus Kruggel who went into 1st position and some fast laps let him stay there for a while, although Ignacio Garcia Cuadrado and Oliver Roberts stayed very close behind. Unfortunately, Ignacio retired after 9 laps while Oliver took the lead in the same lap.
In lap 10 Alan Strang was the first to visit the pits for a regular stop after Derek Waters already had to come in for a new front wing in lap 4. After the first series of stops was done, the three at the front were Oliver, Hans Gunnar Hansen and Markus, but Hans Gunnar got into trouble in lap 14 and lost two positions. Oliver was able to increase his lead to 10 seconds while his team mate Michal Janak decreased the gap to Markus on 2nd.
Steffen Diener and Alan Strang followed on the next places, but after Alan retired in lap 17, Steffen had to continue the chase on his own. Behind him was a group with Axel Bruns, Hans Gunnar and Nuno Maltez, but this group again it was decimated as Maltez had to visit the pits after a crash. After the 2nd stop around lap 22, Michal began to decrease the gap to his team mate, while Markus wasn't able to follow the pace and fell back on third. Janak was only 12 seconds behind in lap 31, but after the last stops around lap 33, Oliver widened the gap to his team mate again and drove to a clear victory.
Meanwhile Markus' advantage on Steffen Diener began to melt away. From the 16 seconds gap in lap 37 only 4 seconds were left when both crossed the line after lap 44.
Race Statistics
FP Car Driver Fast_Lap FL LL/TL PS Avg_Pits AG A B C D Q W ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 1 O.Roberts 1:41.518 40 33/44 3 0:16.250 91 44 2. 2 M.Janak 1:41.948 38 2/44 3 0:19.195 91 44 3. 7 M.Kruggel 1:43.362 40 7/44 3 0:17.355 91 44 4. 33 S.Diener 1:41.979 40 0/44 3 0:15.805 91 36 8 5. 10 H.G.Hansen 1:43.519 44 1/44 2 0:18.023 89 16 28 6. 8 A.Bruns 1:43.592 42 0/44 3 0:22.661 91 44 7. 9 J.Hyvonen 1:45.271 36 0/44 2 0:33.851 89 44 8. 29 N.Maltez 1:46.471 24 0/25 3 0:43.026 91 25 9. 5 A.Strang 1:49.657 8 0/16 1 0:21.958 90 6 10 10. 15 I.G.Cuadrado 1:48.966 7 1/ 9 0 91 9 11. 30 D.Waters 1:54.689 2 0/ 4 1 92 4 12. 39 M.Devine 1:55.470 1 0/ 1 0 91 1 13. 37 R.Schatzer 1:54.407 1 1/ 1 0 91 1
Fastest Lap: 1:41.518 Oliver Roberts (Digitech) LR
(Old Lap Record: 1:41.658 by G.Hawkins 95/96)
What the top 3 said about the race"I ran a 3 stop (CCCC) race, again with a similar setup to last season. The race went pretty smoothly with no major mistakes. (...) Anyway, another excellent race - again I have improved my time from last season."
Michal Janak (Digitech):
"I started from 2nd place on C's tyres. I used diferent strategy than last
year. There wasn't big problems at all, but on some places was difficult to
overtake CC's. In last lap I was about to end in crash in "BUS STOP" (...)"
Markus Kruggel (Wild 13):
"I was worrying about getting through Eau Rouge quick enough, (i.e. flat
out) as early as possible during the race. So I spent some time on the
setup of the car and it looks like that payed off for me. Many cars to
overtake as only a few CCs decided to end the race prematurely."