{"id":7289,"date":"2016-05-03T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fia-cez.com\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2016-05-25T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:46:27","slug":"dramaticke-zavody-cez-na-hungaroringu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia-cez.com\/en\/dramaticke-zavody-cez-na-hungaroringu\/","title":{"rendered":"The dramatic CEZ races at Hungaroring"},"content":{"rendered":"The opening weekend of this year’s races of the Championship in the Central European Zone at Hungaroring, hit its highest point on Saturday with the second races of all included engine cubic-capacities and at the very end with the 60-minute \u2018endurance\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the two-litres the strange situation from the previous day repeated, while Petr Mandel\u00edk with his Lotus Exige became the true king of the two-litres. He literally overrode the speedy Serb Kastratovi\u010de with his Renault Clio, who could not cope with Mandel\u00edk\u2019s pressure and went off-course twice. For the first time, he had still managed to return and get ahead of Mandel\u00edk, but before the end of the race, he crashed and lost his lead.<\/p>\n

Another Czech and also Mandel\u00edk\u2019s teammate, Petr Krej\u010d\u00ed, finished with bronze among the 2-litres with his Lotus. The green Lotus went smoothly, and so the third Petr of the Brno KT motorsport, Petr Lev\u00ed\u010dek, could prepare for his 60-minute evening race.<\/p>\n

The fastest in the national formula was Tom\u00e1\u0161 Chabr, and the second Tom\u00e1\u0161 Koren\u00fd who got back behind the steering wheel of his car which had been tried out a day before by Petr Semer\u00e1d. In two-litres, Petr Samek finished second, and among formulas 3, Anton\u00edn Sus ended up second as well.<\/p>\n

A crash even before the start of the sprint D4<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the anticipation of dramatic duels was then exceeded during the start of the second sprint of division 4 against two-litres. Just as the cars were driving onto the circuit during the initial lap, there were two accidents which significantly impoverished the whole starting field. Several of the biggest favourites and the most powerful vehicles could not even return to restart in the race. \u00a0The initial reason of the problem was the home driver Lekeny with his Renault RS 01. With his familiar zigzagging movements along the track he warmed up the tires, however, during this his vehicle took a 360-degree spin and he rammed into the barrier. Jakub Knoll, who was driving behind him, had to stop in order to avoid the contact. Then he threaded his way through the starting field to return to his leading position there. Malch\u00e1rek evidently got confused by this and followed him, despite the fact the race had not started yet and therefore he swept away Kubas at the start straight. Some of the other drivers joined the collision and so the starting field \u00a0was unfortunately rather reduced.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Ale\u0161 Jir\u00e1sek with his Praga R1 finished first and he also became the winner of Division 5, where Vaclav Janik with his Norma ended up second. The driver from \u0160ternberk got used to the circuit fairly quickly and the elevation changes did not cause him any troubles. In the overall ranking only Miro Konopka, a champion of division 4, with his Lamborghini could be placed among them. In the overall ranking Jakub Knoll with his BMW Z4 finished fourth and second in the division D4.<\/p>\n

Endurance or 60-minute race \u00a0to top if off.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The very end culminated with a 60-minute race, where the crew could start with two drivers, but the majority of vehicles had just one pilot. Unfortunately, the race was badly affected by the aforementioned accident in the sprint and so a few vehicles were eventually absent. Filip Sl\u00e1de\u010dka with his BMW Z4 drove excellently. He was one of the fast drivers of \u0160enk\u00fd\u0159\u2019s team who became the absolute winner. The second position was eventually taken by the home duo Lek\u00e9ny – Lek\u00e9ny with their Renault RS 01, which paradoxically had caused a chain of accidents in the sprint.<\/p>\n

Miro Konopka, one of the most diligent racers of the weekend, could not be missing on the winner\u2019s podium. He was also one of the most successful. The successful premiere of Dan Skalick\u00fd with his BMW Alpina is also worth mentioning. Despite the shortcoming which the experienced driver found during his race, he finished outright in the fourth position, also the third in D4. In addition, he took part in the two sprints and Endurance, where he swapped his time-tested BMW GTR for the BMW Alpina GT3.<\/p>\n

Not all the drivers were fortunate enough to reach the finish line. After doing seven laps, or more precisely, nine both drivers of Praga R1 had to pull their vehicles over.<\/p>\n

However, just right at this moment of the race, Kubas \u2013 Palmi crew belatedly joined the race with their provisionally repaired BMW Z4. Of course, with such a loss they could not expect any great success, but at least they tried out the technology of the vehicle and also thoroughly tested the skills of their team of mechanics\u2019.<\/p>\n

In the two-litres, Petr Lev\u00ed\u010dek took silver with his Lotus Exige, however, only after Vesni\u010dov\u00fd\u2019s Seat with the two-litre turbo.<\/p>\n

The next Central European Championship FIA CEZ takes place in the middle of May at the Austrian RedBull Ring.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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