Race:	from 04.02.2017 [09:00] to 13.02.2017 [08:30]
Class:	1:8 Nitro on-road sportscars
Track:	Fort Myers Raceway
Direction:	Reverse
Series:	2017 SEASON 1 - 1:8 NITRO SPORTSCARS
Rankings:	1:8 nitro sportscars modified, OVERALL NITRO ONROAD, OVERALL ONROAD COMBINED
Points:	Level 2 ABC (1 - 120) with DNS* factor 75%

Welcome to Round 2 of the 2017 Season 1 Series 1:8 nitro Sportscars.

This event is part of the 2017 Season 1 Series 1:8 nitro Sportscars. 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: Boss Speed Tokyo
Round 2: Fort Myers (reversed)
Round 3: Fiorano Italy
Round 4: Lostallo
Round 5: Messina (reversed)
Round 6: Kakegawa
Round 7: Sao Paulo (reversed)
Round 8: Heemstede (reversed)

Enjoy the racing season.

MAKE SURE TO RACE THE COMPLETE SEASON AND BEYOND

6-MONTHS ALL-INCLUSIVE AT 30% INTRODUCTION DISCOUNT

15.02.2017

Report by VRC race reporting

2017 SEASON 1 1:8 SPORTCARS ROUND 2 Fort Myers

This serie started the season from Boss Speed circuit where French Kevin Rasguin took the win with 5 second margin ahead American Joshua Berman. Third podium was driven by another American Kevin Bacon, who was also 5 seconds behind Berman when race finished.

Fort Myers was hosting this second round race.
American double Worldchampion Joshua Berman was on his own level and was the fastest in every round and after a really impressive run, he won the final two laps ahead of the next. Just very convincing by Joshua!
Second in this 20 minutes final was Irish Austin Elliot. He was only two 10th`s slower in average than the race winner Berman, but these long finals gathers difference so hugely.
Kevin Bacon was one 10th slower in average than Elliot and had to settle for third place. Kevin made few mistakes during his run, and these solved second place for Elliot.


Joshua Berman took convincing win

In SPORT level German Eckart Blau was strongest, he won this race with 6 seconds margin to American Gene Sears. Third place went to Peter Haaima from Netherlands.

In CLUB level Dutch Patrick Nieuwenburg totally crushed others. With average 12.4 his difference to second place was 36 seconds. Last podium places went America, to Manuel Weber and Gary Crowell. Weber and Crowell had nice battle of second place. Crowell was holding second place all the way up to 58th lap when Weber passed him. Ok, Crowell had some issues in refuel and got extra 5 seconds of that lap. This incident helped Weber and Crowell had to settle for third place.


Austin Elliot and Kyosho ride

FINAL RESULTS

A-main PRO

1|Joshua Berman|US|103|20:05.998 2|Austin Elliott|IE|101|20:05.182 3|Kevin Bacon|US|101|20:10.614 4|Graham Raistrick|GB|99|20:00.916 5|Mike Cruz|US|98|20:08.984 6|Pierre Dumusc|CH|96|20:05.446 7|Nuno Lourenco|PT|95|20:00.042 8|Mugen Mrx-5|BE|95|20:05.78 9|Maurizio Mazzocchi|IT|94|20:01.348 10|Bruno Eliazord|FR|DNF

A-main SPORT

1|Eckart Blau|DE|95|20:07.220 2|Gene Sears|US|94|20:01.478 3|Peter Haaima|NL|93|20:09.000 4|Rudolf Aigner|TH|92|20:01.788 5|Ralph Fortunato|US|91|20:08.008 6|Laurent Edet|FR|90|20:06.970 7|Yuriy Meshkov|RU|89|20:01.740 8|Hans Guenther Heitsch|DE|88|20:06.294 9|Ralf Sieber|DE|DNS 10|Francisco Manuel|PT|DNS

A-main CLUB

1|Patrick Nieuwenburg|NL|95|20:05.368 2|Manuel Weber|US|92|20:02.514 3|Gary Crowell|US|92|20:09.204 4|Johann Jury|AT|88|20:00.334 5|Petr Bella|BE|88|20:01.992 6|HIROSHI MATSUOKA|JP|87|20:01.976 7|Dorian Marcel|FR|85|20:12.096 8|Yann Pecout|FR|83|20:05.918 9|Tom Kerbl|AT|80|20:10.654 10|Podere Di Valli|IT|77|20:03.466


Kevin Bacon was third


SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 2 ROUNDS

PRO level

1|Joshua Berman|237 2|Kevin Bacon|228 3|Austin Elliott|225 4|Graham Raistrick|222 5|Pierre Dumusc|207 6|Mike Cruz|204 7|Nuno Lourenco|191 8|Mugen Mrx-5|190 9|Maurizio Mazzocchi|181 10|Marco Mognol|168

SPORT level

1|Gene Sears|231 2|Peter Haaima|231 3|Eckart Blau|222 4|Rudolf Aigner|200 5|Olivier Gurdebeke|192 6|Jean-philippe Csernak|183 7|Gary Sundman|180 8|Hans Guenther Heitsch|180 9|Maxime Vincent|176 10|Laurent Edet|175

CLUB level

1|Patrick Nieuwenburg|240 2|Manuel Weber|234 3|Gary Crowell|228 4|Dorian Marcel|210 5|Yann Pecout|204 6|David Alexandre Pereira da Silva|189 7|Curtis Damm|180 8|Podere Di Valli|178 9|Christos Katsigiannis|175 10|Paulo Machado|174

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