Alberto Tedeschi is crowned European B Champion
Alberto Tedeschi has been crowned champion following an exciting race at the European 1/8th scale ‘B’ Championships in Monaco today. With saw some tough battles in all the finals, the race finally had its 10 starters for the 45 minute main final. The first semi finals started with a cloudy sky, but after lunchtime the sun came up and from those two races the following drivers bumped up, with both Sabrina Lechner and Maximilian Federmann coming from the quarter finals
Semi final bump ups
Ciurlante Andrea (IT) – 80 Laps in 20:01.011
Tedeschi Alberto (IT) – 80 Laps in 20:11.979
Lechner Sabrina (GER) – 79 Laps in 20:03.172
Comoglio Emanuele (MON) – 79 Laps in 20:05.728
Federmann Maximilian (GER) – 79 Laps in 20:05.877
Colinet Gerald (FR) – 79 Laps in 20:10.523
In the 45 minute final we saw a lot of changes in the front with pole man Lorenzi only managing to stay in front for the first 9.30 minutes. Pitting at 5 minutes he unfortunately ran out of fuel just before the second stop. The next driver to take over the lead was Tim Wood, who was swapping position regularly with John Ermen. At the 25 minute mark it was Wood, Tedeschi and Ermen, but Wood would go out shortly after with a technical problem, leaving Ermen clear up front with Tedeschi. Thanks to a slightly different pitstop strategy Tedeschi managed to create a gap and would eventually cross the finish line 3/4 of a lap in front of Ermen with Ciurlante in 3rd. Both Tedeschi and Ermen needed 2 tire changes during the final. Unfortunately for Ermen he was disqualified after technical inspection found that his tank was over the limit, so this gave Italy a clean sweep of the podium. Maximilian Vogl became the fastest driver under 17 years taking the junior title having managed to finish in 20th after the semi finals.
Final results
1. Tedeschi Alberto (IT) – 178 Laps in 45:01.465
2. Ciurlante Andrea (IT) – 175 Laps in 45:01.957
3. Lorenzi Andrea (IT) – 175 Laps in 45:05.047
4. Comoglio Emanuele (MON) – 174 Laps in 45:01.711
5. Colinet Gerald (FR) – 170 Laps in 45:12.225
6. Wood Tim (GB) – 165 Laps in 45:00.588
7. Federmann Maximilian (GER) – 159 Laps in 42:14.535
8. Lechner Sabrina (GER) – 118 Laps in 45:08.517
9. Kurzbuch Simon (CH) – 97 Laps in 34:27.166
10.Ermen John (NL) – DQFull results can be found here.
Thanks to Sander de Graaf for the update.
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Comments
1. Kevin - May 30th, 2010 at 21:07
Unfortunately for Ermen he was disqualified after technical inspection found that his tank was over the limit.
So sad , after a very good week of driving.
Strange mistake with this experience.
2. f4sty - May 30th, 2010 at 23:24
Che spettacolo!!
3. MM - May 31st, 2010 at 13:11
poor John Ermen……what have loved to see him win!
4. John Ermen - May 31st, 2010 at 14:06
Strange enough that I used the same fuel tank whole week and that it passed technical inspection about 7 – 8 times. But after a 45 minute final it seemed to expanded 2 or 3cc and after a cool down period of 15 minutes outside of the car the tank didn’t shrink back to it’s original 123cc. But I whitnessed the tests first hand and there was nothing wrong with the test, the tank just “grew” because of the temperature… :-(
5. MM - May 31st, 2010 at 18:21
Bad luck John, go for a win at the A-Euros than! ;-)
6. Kevin - May 31st, 2010 at 23:57
the tank just “grew” because of the temperature… :-(
Ok maybe this is possible , but this is very strange.
Ach man , ge kunt fier zijn.
Congrats !
7. Julien - June 1st, 2010 at 11:50
hello John,
so sad for you !
Your car went to technical inspection 5 or 6 times … yes … but I’m sure that the tank was not controlled more than 2 or 3 times.
It was controlled at the registration (tank completely cold).
After there were 4 qualifying round, so 4 “chances” to be controlled … but technical inspection has not more than 10 minutes to check the 10 cars of the previous heat.
It is impossible for them to check all cars. If they want to check all cars, they look only the weight, track width, muffler nbr, body height.
Only one or perhaps 2 tanks are controlled per heat … not more.
And if the tank is controlled, the car has worked for “only” 10 minutes (7 minutes + 3 minutes of warm-up).
After 45 minutes of final, with the pressure of the muffler and the heat, the plastic of the tank has time to expend and depending of his shape and the plastic, it might not come back to his initial volume.
Julien