30.03.2017

Report by VRC race reporting


SEASON 1 2017 RALLY X SPEC ROUND 4 X2

VRC PRO had released new X2 track and this stage was hosting 4th round of RallyX serie.
This track has pretty easy 180 corners but very tricky two sloped corners, where you have to be very precise with speed and braking. Who handles those corners perfectly, was favourite to take this round.

American Ely Rojas increased his pace during this event and took convincing win. Despite his 5 second mistake at lap 11, with average 25.7, there was no challengers for him.
Swedish Robert Hillman was closest behind Rojas, he was most consistent of top3. But with average 25.9, he had to settle to second place.
Carson Yeung got third place, over 9 seconds behind winner.


Ely Rojas, PRO level winner

In SPORT level Hijrah Saputra was strongest. He was standing at fifth grid after semifinals but he had done his homework and was furios at final. Despite his two bigger mistakes, what gave him 11 seconds of extra, his pace was great. He won the race over two seconds margin before Jim Merrits. Behind Merrits, we saw very good battle between Vesa Inkeri and Izidor Tratnik.
Tratnik had more pace than Inkeri, but his 4 seconds mistake at lap 7 was crucial for him.
Inkeri took third place with his consistent drive and Tratnik had to settle to fourth, with very tiny 0.009 margin.


Hijrah Saputra had great race, from fifth grid to victory

CLUB level driver Michitaka Yanagisawa was showing great pace. In overall results, this 48 years old Japanese "rallyrobot" was leading this group after two rounds. At Final, heading for his last lap, his 8 seconds lead was ruined. Looking the replay, it sounds that Michitaka had some connection problems with his transmitter, as his car jumps over the first sloped corner and throttle stays on guite awhile. This connection failure costed him the lead and win and he had to settle to second place, 1.6 seconds behind winner Balint Rajki.
David Lalanne was third, 5.6 seconds from the winner.


Balint Rajki on his way to victory


FINAL RESULTS

A-main PRO

1|Ely Rojas|US|24|10:17.457 2|Robert Hillman|SE|24|10:22.246 3|Carson Yeung|HK|23|10:01.252 4|Laurent Soreil|FR|23|10:26.997 5|Milan Peka|CZ|22|10:11.331 6|Jukka-Pekka Huhtala|FI|DNS 7|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT|DNS 8|Billy Yeung|HK|DNF

A-main SPORT

1|Hijrah Saputra|ID|23|10:04.140 2|Jim Merritts|US|23|10:06.617 3|Vesa Inkeri|FI|23|10:09.886 4|Izidor Tratnik|SI|23|10:09.895 5|Jozsef Valent|HU|23|10:12.077 6|Gary Crowell|US|23|10:13.254 7|Arturas Svoba|LT|23|10:16.477 8|Christophe DELAMARE|FR|23|10:21.080 9|Eric Brawley|GB|22|10:04.609 10|Valeriy Kornilov|RU|22|10:14.312

A-main CLUB

1|Balint Rajki|HU|23|10:04.680 2|Michitaka Yanagisawa|JP|23|10:06.269 3|David LALANNE|FR|23|10:10.294 4|isla pesca|JP|22|10:08.240 5|Ange Meiss|FR|22|10:25.166 6|Barry Scarborough|US|21|10:21.414 7|HIROSHI MATSUOKA|JP|20|10:19.105 8|Bartek Kramża|PL|DNS 9|Aron Roach|AU|DNS 10|Emanuele Sartori|IT|DNS

SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 4 ROUNDS

PRO level

1|Robert Hillman|310 2|Carson Yeung|300 3|Tommaso Andreuccetti|237 4|Laurent Soreil|216 5|Milan Peka|174 6|Jukka-Pekka Huhtala|171 7|Ely Rojas|160 8|Billy Yeung|160 9|Marshall Kirkholm|153 10|Tommi Vacklin|96

SPORT level

1|Jim Merritts|306 2|Vesa Inkeri|296 3|Arturas Svoba|292 4|Christophe DELAMARE|284 5|Valeriy Kornilov|268 6|Gary Crowell|247 7|Curtis Damm|228 8|Izidor Tratnik|222 9|Gary Sundman|219 10|Mike Bridges|216

CLUB level

1|Manuel Weber|266 2|Emanuele Sartori|249 3|Dorian Marcel|249 4|David LALANNE|232 5|Benoit Plourde|232 6|Christos Katsigiannis|226 7|Ange Meiss|224 8|Karl heinz Johann|218 9|Vitor Francês|184 10|David Alexandre Pereira da Silva|178

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