Adam Wisniewski managed to keep his car on the reversed International configuration and benetitted from a few errors from Carsten Hörenbaum who lead the race overall until the second round of pitstops. We saw a full grid with 26 drivers ready to go, but first things first.
The first qualifying was all about getting into Q2 and with sixteen drivers within one second it would be close. 1stBFA’s Matthias Felix reached the tenth place with three drivers behind him inside two hundreth of a second. Q2 ran without incidents with SpeedCore’s Nelson Marques taken the Pole-Position in front of Peter Hopkins and Wisniewski. Marques needed this Pole because he had to serve a Drive-through penalty in the first three laps, but he dropped back to seventeenth position after the penalty.
In turn one Marques hold his position followed by Wisniewski who passed Hopkins on the outside. Running 4-wide through a corner was never a good idea, but except for hitting and spinning nothing happenend in the middle of the pack. Before the turn Schönig touched Dominic Klein that sent him through the grass and into the car of SCP’s Igor Fermevc. KomaCrew’s Reinisch drift through the left-right before the first split and hit Milan Radonic who was fighting back after a +10 grid position penalty. At the front Wisniewski tried a risky move on Marques but backed off early enough. After other drivers were serving their penalties Hopkins was second for half a lap after running wide at the exit of the fast chicane. Wisniewski enjoyed the lead for three laps after handing it over to Hörenbaum who again drove the best lap of the race.
A bit unluckier than last race was Dave Southword. He was in fourth position until lap ten when he did the same mistake as his teammate Hopkins and dropped back to ninth and after his third stop later in the race he stopped his car. Overall eleven cars didn’t reach the finish out of a full grid, but last races on this circuit showed that this was expected. Most of the drivers went for a two-stop strategy and although Wisniewski could stay out longer than Hörenbaum he stayed behind him until the last-mentionend went into the wall at the fast chicane and took a lot of damage out of the contact. Both were running in their own league so Wisniewski was left without an opponent and drove his race safely home.
The second place wasn’t cleary given to any driver until the finish line. Matthias Felix was driving on third midway of the race followed by Speedfreaks driver Damon Ryder and Hörenbaums teammate Martin Silhanek, who also had a Drive-through penalty to serve. Silhanek had late pitstops and was listed on 2nd after Hörenbaum dropped back, but another stop let him become 7th in the end. Felix was on second position but Nelson Marques, coming out of nowhere, jumped back onto second place after overtaking Felix in the final lap. He couldn’t increase the gap between him and Felix but he was able to secure second in front of him and Ryder, followed by Franz-Josef Stumm who finished 5th scoring another three points for the second Innovate Racing team although he was pitting at the very last lap to take that extra fuel needed for the last 5.2 kilometres. Damon Ryder’s brother Ruud took 6th place and Cile Rosic scored the first point for the Serbian Chromed Pistons.
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The first qualifying was all about getting into Q2 and with sixteen drivers within one second it would be close. 1stBFA’s Matthias Felix reached the tenth place with three drivers behind him inside two hundreth of a second. Q2 ran without incidents with SpeedCore’s Nelson Marques taken the Pole-Position in front of Peter Hopkins and Wisniewski. Marques needed this Pole because he had to serve a Drive-through penalty in the first three laps, but he dropped back to seventeenth position after the penalty.
In turn one Marques hold his position followed by Wisniewski who passed Hopkins on the outside. Running 4-wide through a corner was never a good idea, but except for hitting and spinning nothing happenend in the middle of the pack. Before the turn Schönig touched Dominic Klein that sent him through the grass and into the car of SCP’s Igor Fermevc. KomaCrew’s Reinisch drift through the left-right before the first split and hit Milan Radonic who was fighting back after a +10 grid position penalty. At the front Wisniewski tried a risky move on Marques but backed off early enough. After other drivers were serving their penalties Hopkins was second for half a lap after running wide at the exit of the fast chicane. Wisniewski enjoyed the lead for three laps after handing it over to Hörenbaum who again drove the best lap of the race.
A bit unluckier than last race was Dave Southword. He was in fourth position until lap ten when he did the same mistake as his teammate Hopkins and dropped back to ninth and after his third stop later in the race he stopped his car. Overall eleven cars didn’t reach the finish out of a full grid, but last races on this circuit showed that this was expected. Most of the drivers went for a two-stop strategy and although Wisniewski could stay out longer than Hörenbaum he stayed behind him until the last-mentionend went into the wall at the fast chicane and took a lot of damage out of the contact. Both were running in their own league so Wisniewski was left without an opponent and drove his race safely home.
The second place wasn’t cleary given to any driver until the finish line. Matthias Felix was driving on third midway of the race followed by Speedfreaks driver Damon Ryder and Hörenbaums teammate Martin Silhanek, who also had a Drive-through penalty to serve. Silhanek had late pitstops and was listed on 2nd after Hörenbaum dropped back, but another stop let him become 7th in the end. Felix was on second position but Nelson Marques, coming out of nowhere, jumped back onto second place after overtaking Felix in the final lap. He couldn’t increase the gap between him and Felix but he was able to secure second in front of him and Ryder, followed by Franz-Josef Stumm who finished 5th scoring another three points for the second Innovate Racing team although he was pitting at the very last lap to take that extra fuel needed for the last 5.2 kilometres. Damon Ryder’s brother Ruud took 6th place and Cile Rosic scored the first point for the Serbian Chromed Pistons.
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