22.12.2017
PRO class
The biggest upset of the 2017 VRC Worlds thus far: Italian Andrea Giordano beating the VRC oval king Jimmy Flack. It could be home advantage of course, but unlikely as the Melzo oval is hardly used in real life. The 15 minute long final was really between these 2 drivers from the moment the flag dropped. Flack made a small mistake in lap 2 going into turn 1 which cost him haf a second, enough to make him chase down Giordano for the whole 15 minutes. He was able to get in front of the flying Giordano during the pitstops, but other than these few laps he just saw the tailpipe of the Italian. They were totally evenly matched these 2 front runners and as Giordano was able to stay cool until the finish flag despite the pressure of Flack he was crowned the 2017 VRC Oval winner in 1:10 nitro Nascar trucks with just 0.8 seconds over Flack. Graham Raistrick from the UK finished 1 lap down on the 2 front runners in 3rd place.
Video of the Pro Super final, must watch... and share!
Congrats to the podium finishers!
PRO Class
1.|Andrea Giordano|IT|109|15:04.106
2.|Jimmy Flack|US|109|15:04.908
3.|Graham Raistrick|GB|108|15:03.844
4.|Stephen Halliday|AU|106|15:04.010
5.|Milan Peka|CZ|105|15:02.326
6.|Shaun Schutte|ZA|105|15:05.078
7.|Manuel Weber|US|104|15:02.072
8.|Jozsef Valent|HU|104|15:08.174
9.|Philippe Gross|CH|100|15:07.098
10.|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT||DNF
SPORT class
Romain Lacroix was the early leader but after his 1st pitstop he had bad outlap which let Nuno Lourenco from Portugal into the race again, passed the Frenchman and didn't look back. Lacroix pace dropped a bit in the second half of the race which gave Lourenco some breathing space of a lap and a half at the end. Hans Guenther Heitsch from Germany completed the podium 5 laps down on the winner. One notable result in Sport class was certainly good old Tom Elbersole scoring the 6th overall time. Tom (age 72) has done close to 160.000 km since he joined VRC in 2011...
1.|Nuno Lourenco|PT|105|15:07.810
2.|Romain LACROIX|FR|103|15:04.322
3.|Hans Guenther Heitsch|DE|100|15:05.032
4.|Mike Bridges|CA|100|15:08.542
5.|Tony DELMASTRO|FR|100|15:08.672
6.|Tom Ebersole|US|97|15:02.662
7.|Larry Blair|US|96|15:05.580
8.|Dorian Marcel|FR|95|15:04.924
9.|Curtis Damm|US|94|15:01.190
10.|Rainer Ressar|EE||DNF|
CLUB class
Vesa Inkeri from Finland led this main final from start till finiosh and was never really challenged. Patrick Buhlmann from Switzerland finished a lap and a halkf down from Inkeri in 2nd and Isla Pesca from Japan (doesn't sound very Japanese...) came in 3rd another 2 laps down.
CLUB class
1.|Vesa Inkeri|FI|105|15:06.252
2.|Patrik Bühlmann|CH|103|15:04.098
3.|isla pesca|JP|101|15:05.866
4.|Marcos Garcia|ES|97|15:08.588
5.|Johann Jury|AT|96|15:02.876
6.|Paul Fendt|GB|92|15:04.716
7.|david acosta|US|91|15:01.988
8.|Bob Halliday|US|87|15:00.896
9.|Uwe Roesler|DE|86|15:00.732
10.|Jason Platt|US||DNF
In the Nations Cup overall ranking USA took 1st place, France 2nd and Germany 3rd.
Congrats to all podium finishers!
Comments
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Manuel W
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Great report. Thanks for doing that
and congrats to the top three.
Manu
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Andrea GVRC World Champion
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Thank you Kevin, great track and cars and amazing race. Wonderfoul report. Thanks guys!
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michael Zappa
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Well Done All very close up top.
Nice report man... 160.000KM You Have Gone around the world 4 times tom well done
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Kevin B.MULTIPLE WORLD CHAMPION
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Congratulations Andrea, Jimmy and Graham! What a close race.
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