Dominating win for DHR GP! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andreas Hultgren   
Friday, 23 October 2009 00:36
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The sun was shining as it was time for the home race of Black Visor Motorsport at the French Rouen Les-Essarts track. The qualification was a close fight between DHR GP's Vincent Staal and DMSv's Roland Ehnström with Staal taking it by .193 of a second.

In the race Staal was untbeatalbe though as he pretty much destroyed the feild and took the win 22 seconds ahead of Mateusz Marcinkowski of FlatOut Racing. Marcinkowski was for a very long time in a lonely 3rd but when Ehnström, who was involved in an early incident, started to put pressure on him near the closing stages the FlatOut Racing drivers stood up to the challenge and near the end he manage to pass RPM's Marcin Skrzypczak for 2nd when the latterhad a breif concentration blip. He nearly lost 3rd to Ehnström but could hold on to it in the end.

The beggining of the race was very action filled and many fell victim to the high speed track. Including them Gregory Degreef (The Black Rebels) and Ludoviq Cogotti (Project D) who were both up in the top 5 but ended their races by the side of the track.

Jack Keithley, driving the 2nd DHR GP Corvette, managed to bring his car hom in 5th after some problems early on. He got tangled up in the same incident that Ehnström was involved in. Another driver that was involved in the same incident was the RPM driver Peter Duivelaar. He also received a stop&go penalty at the very beginning but made it over the line in 7th. Between those two finished the Black Visor Motorsport driver Gary Lennon after a very eventful race.

Project D's sole points scorer became Luc Mangas with a fine 8th place finish. The frenchman drove a solid race and stayed out of the trouble so many of the others had. Behind him finished the second home driver Ben Tusting. If his teammate Lennon had an eventfull race Tusting had an even more so. He was involved in numerous battles and had one spin and his engine also died once half way through the race but he still managed to finish in 9th. Rounding up top 10 did Bryan Stark. The FlatOut Racing driver hit the wall pretty hard braking for the hairpin on the opening lap but fought back to 10th.

If you though the championship standings were tight before it was nothing compared to now. DHR GP took over the lead with a single point. DMSv dropped to second after leading the whole season and RPM is only 6 points behind the leaders.

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Last Updated on Friday, 23 October 2009 10:46