After the 45 minute
final it was the current and multiple world champion who crossed
the line as first, seconds ahead of the number 2 finisher, Alberto
Picco.
Altrough NOVAROSSI WORLD S.r.l. had not the most cards for the
title, but we had the best card!
Here you can read an report about this exciting European championship:
The 2007 edition of the European championship 1:8 On-road was
held in the last weekend of July on one of the biggest track
in europe, located in Lostallo, Swiss.
Normally a laptime would be between 13 and 16 seconds....well,
the fastest laptime during this EC was in a low 20 seconds.
Or you could think that the track is quite slow... but it was
quite hard for a lot of drivers to make the 5 minutes.
Many drivers tried everyting trick they knew to make it, and
if they made it they had a big change of doing 15 laps in five
minutes, and that was needed to keep good hope for a spot in
the final.
When the first qualifing session was held on friday afternoon/evening
we see multiple champion Lamberto Collari on place 9 (merely
setting a basic time to start with) with Andrea Pirani coming
0.5 seconds behind the world champion.
Since this session was held in the afternoon the track was quite
hot thus slow.
On saturday the remaining 3 qualifing sessions where held in
the morning, when the track is cold (it was quite cold at night
compared the 25~30'C during the day) and fast.
So there was a lot excitment in the paddock and a lot questions...who
will be the fastest?
Unfortunatly when the sun came over the mountains the track
became hot very fast, reducing the laptimes rather quickly.
Only the expirienced driver adapted quickly to the fast changing
track, which resulted in a place jump from Collari, from 9th
to 2nd!
And he was not the only one, what Jernej Vuga pulled of was
just fabulous, coming from a place far in the middle the field
and jumping to a 5th place!
Just missing a direct final spot by 0.4 seconds...this gives
you an idea how close/high the level of racing is during this
EC.
The German 1:8 On-road champion, Robert Pietsch, has his prototype
Velox also quite up to speed, having a 12th qualifing time.
0,5 seconds behind him are 2 fast Italian drivers, Fabio Domanin
and Marco Vanni.
But yet 2 qualifing sessions to go, will there be again so
much changes?
After all 4 qualifing rounds it still is Lamberto Collari on
second place!
because of the "placejump" of Solaroli, jernej Vuga
dropped 1 place down to the 6th spot, very well driving by the
current EC-B 1:8 champion!
Here is a list of the top 15 drivers.
1 - Michael Salven
2 - Lamberto Collari - NOVA COLLARI
3 - Stefano Solaroli
4 - Francesco Tironi
5 - Alberto Picco
6 - Jernej Vuga - NOVA PLUS 2
7 - Steven Cuypers
8 - Mark Green
9 - Daniele Ielasi
10 - Markus Geisendorf
11 - Fabio Domani
12 - Marco Vanni - NOVA PLUS 2
13 - Stefan Hanauer
14 - Massimo Fantini
15 - Robert Pietsch - NOVA PLUS
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After the 2 semi finals it became time to see who from both
the semi finals made it into the 45 minute during fight for
the European championship 2007 title.
The drivers who had the luck to be in the Semi A final had the
advantage of a cooler track (some rain clouds passed the track,
but it did not rain), which means that the semi A should be
faster then the semi B final.
And if you look who came from the A or B you see that the semi
A final was indeed the faster semi final.
From the semi A final came:
- Francesco Tironi
- Fabio Domanin - Max Power
- Daniele Ielasi
- Rick Vrielijnck
From the Semi B came:
- Mark Green
- Massimo Fantini - Max Power
And at 16:00 the main final started, with a 10-minute delay
because Daniele Ielasi had some problems.
When the final got underway, Salven and Picco had quite a fight,
While Collari followed on some distance...to prevent any possible
racing accident.
To stay on a little distance was indeed a wise choice of Collari,
as Salven and Picco had a little get together which dropped
Salven a few places back.
The next 20 minutes Picco and Collari stayed close together
(within 2 seconds), and at this point Daniele ielasi was already
out of the title fight due a 2-speed failure, which costed him
7 valuable laps.
As the fight continues, Picco comes in to change his tires,
while Collari does not change his tires!
This action gives Collari a lead of well over 10 seconds over
Picco who finds him self now on the second place.
Meanwhile Pole man Salven had some trouble with his car and
needed to came in, and as if the devil was playing against him,
during that stop his engine suffered from a flame out.
Placing Salven well out for any European championship title
hopes.
In the last few minutes of the 45-minute final it became very
exciting as Picco closed the gap with race leader Collari to
a few seconds.
With Collari having a much lower top speed then the hard chasing
Picco, he had made a big enough gap to hold the lead until the
very end of the final!
After 45 racing during this final of the 2007 European championship
it is Lamberto Collari who crossed the finish line 2 second
before the number 2, Alberto Picco!
On the third came Francesco Tironi;
Fourth place went to Mark Green;
The fifth place was for Italian Massimo Fantini (Max Power).
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