Race:	from 25.02.2017 [09:00] to 06.03.2017 [08:30]
Class:	1:8 Rally X Spec
Track:	Messina X short course
Direction:	Reverse
Series:	2017 SEASON 1 - 1:8 RALLY-X SPEC CLASS
Rankings:	not selected
Points:	Level 1 ABC (1 - 80) with DNS* factor 75%

Welcome to Round 3 of the 2017 Season 1 Series 1:8 Rally-X Spec class.

This event is part of the 2017 Season 1 Series 1:8 Rally-X Spec class. Of the 8 events your 6 best results will count for the Series championship.

Each events has 3 rounds of racing:
QUALIFYING - Saturday 09:00 AM till Wednesday 08:30 AM* - all
SEMI FINALS - Wednesday 09:00 AM till Friday 08:30 AM - Top 80 per class
MAIN FINAL - Friday 09:00 AM till Monday 08:30 AM - Top 40 per class

*GMT (to see times in your local time make sure to have set the correct time zone in your profile).

Time is chosen to allocate approx. equal racing opportunity for members from Australia, Europe and east & west coast USA.

The results will be split up based on racer classes Club, Sport and Pro.

2017 SEASON 1 CALENDAR
Round 1: Heemstede X
Round 2: Rally X1 (reversed)
Round 3: Messina X (reversed)
Round 4: Rally X2
Round 5: Heemstede X (reversed)
Round 6: Rally X1
Round 7: Messina X
Round 8: Rally X2 (reversed)

Enjoy the racing season.

MAKE SURE TO RACE THE COMPLETE SEASON AND BEYOND

6-MONTHS ALL-INCLUSIVE AT 30% INTRODUCTION DISCOUNT

06.03.2017

Report by VRC race reporting


SEASON 1 2017 RALLY X SPEC ROUND 3 Messina X

Third round of Rally X spec series was helded at Messina X track. First and second race winners Tommi Vacklin and Ely Rojas didnt participate to this event, but we had lot of drivers to get this just released track tested in race conditions.
Ok, all had some difficulties with big jump at backstraight and it was such a place that you had to be consistently precise and careful with that one, if you wanted to be at podium.

At qualifying round Huhtala was setting the pace to others and left second place driver Carson Yeung, 3.8 seconds behind. Third and fourth fastest was Sandro Cabreira and Robert Hillman.
Yeung, Cabreira and Hillman were all with very identical distance to the leader.


Huhtala was luckiest in PRO level

Semifinal round start to show the truth of the pace. Hillman was furiost and took this round with one second distance to Huhtala. Hillman and Huhtala were only ones, who got that 21 laps. Cabreira was standing at third and Yeung in fourth place. Cabreira had 4.1 and Yeung 6 seconds to leader.

When FINAL was arranged, there was three empty grids and Cabreira who got third grid, was one of those.
From the start it looked that Hillman is charging this one, but also him had huge struggles with that big jump and this made this final round very interesting.
All in all, that jump gave good spice for this final and we got 5 different leaders during this round. At this "lottery round", Huhtala had best luck and crossed the finishline first. Hillman`s last lap mistake dropped him from first to third place and also Yeung used this opportunity and got to second place, 0.070s ahead of Hillman.


Hillman`s(blue) last lap mistake dropped him from first to third place. Also Yeung benefited from this and got second place.

In SPORT level we had great result, when Finish driver Vesa Inkeri drove magnificent final. In overall results Vesa was standing at top of the list, 1.8 seconds faster than PRO level winner. Lithuanian Arturas Svoba was second fastest, 3.4 seconds behind Inkeri.
Slovenian Izidor Tratnik had 10 seconds distance to the winner, but in this track, it wasnt huge margin and this raised him to third podium.


At Finals, Inkeri was fastest in overall results

CLUB level race was two drivers deal. French David Lalanne and Italian Emanuele Sartori had great battle of first place. Sartori had the pace but unfortunatelly he had few over 25 seconds laps and these allowed Lalanne to get close and pass him. Margins were not big and David hold his nerves very good and deserved this win. Sartori had to settle to second place, with frustrating 0.6 distance to Lalanne. Third place was driven by Juanda Safari from Indonesia.
Honestly, Safari`s third place in this CLUB level was big big suprise for reporter as many others. Juanda was fastest in overall results in qualifying and semifinal rounds. Was it lack of rhytm or something else, but something really strange happend on his FINAL. Nothing seemed to go right.

FINAL RESULTS

A-main PRO

1|Jukka-Pekka Huhtala|FI|24|10:03.149 2|Carson Yeung|HK|24|10:05.982 3|Robert Hillman|SE|24|10:06.052 4|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT|24|10:09.406 5|Marshall Kirkholm|US|24|10:15.548 6|Laurent Soreil|FR|24|10:24.431 7|Sandro Cabreira|BR|DNF 8|Massimiliano Tanturri|IT|DNS 9|Billy Yeung|HK|DNS

A-main SPORT

1|Vesa Inkeri|FI|24|10:01.275 2|Arturas Svoba|LT|24|10:04.680 3|Izidor Tratnik|SI|24|10:11.429 4|Jim Merritts|US|24|10:22.602 5|Christophe DELAMARE|FR|24|10:22.920 6|Valeriy Kornilov|RU|24|10:23.380 7|Steve Brummett|US|24|10:25.285 8|Eric Brawley|GB|24|10:25.700 9|Ulf Stenvall|SE|23|10:10.220 10|Corey Tadd|US|DNS

A-main CLUB

1|David LALANNE|FR|24|10:11.937 2|Emanuele Sartori|IT|24|10:12.568 3|Juanda Safari|ID|24|10:22.980 4|Ange Meiss|FR|23|10:02.334 5|Dorian Marcel|FR|23|10:22.232 6|Manuel Weber|US|23|10:22.957 7|Anssi Hartikainen|FI|22|10:00.748 8|Mike Strack|DE|22|10:06.340 9|Benoit Plourde|CA|20|10:17.268 10|Vitor Francês|PT|DNS

SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 3 ROUNDS

PRO level

1|Robert Hillman|232 2|Carson Yeung|224 3|Tommaso Andreuccetti|220 4|Jukka-Pekka Huhtala|154 5|Marshall Kirkholm|153 6|Billy Yeung|144 7|Laurent Soreil|142 8|Milan Peka|102 9|Tommi Vacklin|96 10|Jiri Mara|88

SPORT level

1|Jim Merritts|228 2|Arturas Svoba|224 3|Vesa Inkeri|220 4|Christophe DELAMARE|218 5|Valeriy Kornilov|206 6|Gary Crowell|177 7|Curtis Damm|168 8|Mike Bridges|167 9|Gary Sundman|160 10|Corey Tadd|155

CLUB level

1|Emanuele Sartori|234 2|Manuel Weber|206 3|Dorian Marcel|196 4|Benoit Plourde|173 5|Christos Katsigiannis|169 6|Karl heinz Johann|166 7|Juanda Safari|156 8|David LALANNE|156 9|Ange Meiss|152 10|Vitor Francês|128

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