Renaud Savoya has won the second Semi final of the 2010 Euros despite his car flaming out on the last lap. The defending Champion was on target for a 29 lap run but his RB powered Mugen came to a stop a third of the way around the final lap. A marshal got the car but then ran across the loop giving him a faster run than Batlle but the time keepers removed the rapid 36 second lap and he will now start second in the final.
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The two quarter finals have been completed in Portugal and we now have our semi final line ups with British duo Darren Bloomfield and Elliot Boots along with Antonio Jesus Gomez, who came through from the 1/8 final, and Jörn Neumann moving up to Semi A. While in the B semi, the direct qualifiers will be joined by Alberto Garcia, Rodrigo Lusi, Javier Puche and Carlos Duraes.
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Yannick Aigoin is the Top Qualifier here in Portugal and going on the form of the previous four European Championships, is on target to lift his third EFRA title. Since 2006, when Aigoin last won the Euros, the Top Qualifier has gone on to take the overall victory. The factory Losi driver secured the No.1 spot after recording his third TQ run of the five rounds in the last qualifier of the event, much to the delight of Losi top man Bill Jeric who has traveled over from the US to support his drivers.
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Italian company Capricorn RC have been in contact to tell us about another young signing to their team. The Norwegian Xray driver Adrian Bernsten will run the company’s engines, tires and fuel throughout the 2010 season. The European electric junior champion and multiple National champion will compete at this year’s World and European Championships in the USA and Sweden respectively.
Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]
The 3rd round of the Danish National was held on the last weekend of June and great weather greeted the competitors in Næstved on Zealand. After qualification it was Martin Lissau on pole followed by Martin Hansen 2nd and Claus Ryeskov in 3rd. The start of the finals saw Lissau, Hansen and Ryeskov maintain their starting order. Before the first fuel stop Hansen has overtaken Lissau after he went too wide into the corner after the straight. Just before the second refueling the leader ran out of fuel and it cost him two laps. Lissau was again leading the race and maintained it for most of the race , but suddenly there was a big bang. Lissau had battery problems and had driven straight into a post, destroying the car and putting him out of the race. Hansen ran out of full several more times and this meant that Ryeskov could drive safely home and win the race with Martin Hansen holding on for 2nd and Thomas Larsen in 3rd.
Thanks to Claus Ryeskov for the report.
Former Champion Miguel Matias has TQ’d the penultimate round of qualifying here in Portugal this morning ahead of defending Champion Renaud Savoya, ending the Aigoin brothers domination at the top of the time sheets. The only Portuguese driver to have ever won the European title, the Losi driver said track condition were more difficult today but he was very happy to take the round.
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Just last weekend saw more great success for the new tyre brand Contact RC, this time at the European Championship 1/8th in Locorotondo, Italy. Mugen star Robert Pietsch took TQ, fastest individual lap and won the race heading it from start to finish. Robert was using the Contact tyres line and always looked the fastest on the demanding track. For the final Robert chose to start with brand new tyres straight out of the box because his car worked really well with large diameter tyres. This strategy proved to be the right one and Robert led the race from the first lap, completing a tyre change after 24 minutes and at that point he had a lead of one lap over Dario Balestri. After 45 minutes of hard racing Robert became the new European champion in 1/8th on road with his Mugen MRX-5 powered by Novarossi and gave Contact Tyres its first European Championships title at its first international race.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
It was a good opening day of qualifying for France’s Aigoin brothers as they TQ’d all three of today’s rounds. Starting the day of with the fastest time Yannick again topped Q3 after his brother set the pace in Q2 leaving the pair 1 & 2 in the overnight qualification ranking with two more rounds tomorrow.
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