And that’s all, folks! Another exciting circuit racing season is over. However, there is no reason to be sad. We dare to say that with the last swing of chequered flag, the new season has already started. Yes, it is true, for the racers, team managers and mechanics it is that less interesting part of it – full of hard physical training, negotiations with the sponsors and technical restorations. And for this reason, it is also the best opportunity to summarize the whole racing year.
It could easily be described as possibly the hottest one in terms of the weather. While the fans were enjoying the sunshine and getting tan, the racers could not stop sweating. Well, no pain no gain.
The most attention was paid to GT3 cars – or in other words – above 3,5 L category. There we saw a thrilling struggle among Richard Chlad jun. and Marcin Jedlinski. While the Czech driver was competing with older version of Audi R8, his Polish rival joined forces with the latest edition of the same car which eventually helped him to reach his victory. A great display of skills was presented by Josef Záruba with Denis Waszek who ended up third. They managed to beat GT3 cars regularly and Josef even got to win in Brno.
In up-to-3500-ccm category, we saw a few brand new TCR specification cars. There, it was Milovan Vesnić with Seat who celebrated victory while Václav Nimčem jun., who had been racing with Audi RS3 LMS, ended up second.
Formula racing brought us interesting duel between youth and experience. Eventually, it was the first of the two who celebrated. Italian Andrea Cola defeated tall Serbian Paolo Brajnik – despite the fact that Paolo regularly races with Italian licence. The third place was taken by another Italian – Ricardo Perego.
In E2 category, there was a tough fight among Polish Bartolomiej Mirecki with Renault 2.0 and Hungaian János Magyar who raced with formula Master. Finally, after exciting battle, the racer with black-and-green Renault took the lead and gained the victory.
In endurance category up-to-3,5 L, the title was won by Petr Fulín with Carol Wittek, ahead from Hungarian duo Csaba Tóth a Gábor Kismarty-Lechner.
Česky