published: 2012-09-16 12:28:57 (58995) Author: Carlos Gomez |
Semifinals lined up at Longvic |
| After a nice and intense racing morning we have find the 24 drivers that will compete at Semifinals A & B |
 The day has started early, usual time when you are at races, and the first victory of the day went to Austrian driver Wolfgang Kaiser followed by 3 swiss drivers while on the second run, the 1/16 B, all bump up positions were to be for french drivers with Stéphane Monfront claiming the first spot. From 1/8th to 1/4 the A side has been won by Thierry Badan followed by Navarre, Pawlak and swiss Carlos Texeira, a spaniard living in Switzerland. The B side has seen the victory of Swedish driver Lennart Sahlman followed by 2 french drivers, Ben Redjeb and Batailler, and the swiss Lucho Candeloro. The 1/4 A has been clearly dominated by 1-2-3-4 of the starting grid and so that all 4 have bumped up to Semifinal A with number 9 for Veli Alijaj, the 10 for Swedish driver Klass Bredberg and 11 & 12 for Eric Barbesant and Emmanuel Valentin. With such result we do have 2 swedish drivers on the same semifinal and the swedish team is running short on mechanics, so an announcement has been made and inmediately they have found enough volunteers to help them; we are, definetively, the friendly section. The second quarter final has had much more drama elements. two race leaders have lost their privilege spot being the first one by minute 12 Mark Dell who was confortably on the lead when he saw his engine moving forward, screws gone loose, and his race took the same direction... going loose. Next to be unhappy has been papa Savoya, Jean Michel has said au revoir to all his bump up chances, he was on top, when his engine flamed out, bad luck for papa. So finally the 4 spots into Semifinals have gone to Cyril Sausset, Pascal Gaillard, Karim Ben Redjeb and to Luc Batailler, this last one due to a 10 seconds penalty impossed in the last lap to Bruno Jasmin who obtained 4th position at the finish line by an unfair racing as adjudged by the referees. Now after the practice of the Semifinals we will run both and we will find out our line up for the main final. Stay tuned for more updates from Longvic. |
