The curtain falls on the second round of the ACI Racing weekend in Imola, on a Sunday full of twists and turns.
With the last races, it is over the ACI Racing weekend in Imola, which provided moments full of tension and action until the final laps. On Sunday the races of all the categories involved took place, starting from Italian Formula 4, to get to the GT Cup. Despite the rain forecast for the last day of competition, all the championships took place regularly without any interruptions
Between Formula 4 and F.2000
On Sunday morning the Formula 4 cars lined up on the track, with Yamakoshi in front of everyone Once again. When the traffic lights went off, the Japanese maintained control of the race until the checkered flag. Behind him the two US Racing teammates, Beeton and Bohra, they fought for second position. It was the Indian who prevailed, while Beeton due to a ccontact with championship leader Freddie Slater, dropped to 35th position. The Englishman, who had managed to maintain ninth position, was penalized by 25 seconds, thus leaving the points zone. Another Prema driver occupied the last step of the podium in Race 2, the Indian Dion Gowda.
In Race 3, Yamakoshi repeated the same performance as a few hours earlier and seemed close to his third victory of the weekend. However, uno problem with your car in the last minutes of the race, it made him lose the race lead and he also dropped to 27th position. Freddie Slater thus achieved his fourth success of the seasonahead of Beeton and Rehm, both US Racing drivers.
In the other single-seater championship, the F.2000, the first three positions at the start remain unchanged despite an LFighting for second place between Berta and Galli. In front of them, the victory was won by the Swiss Zeller, while the race ends under a red flag due to some cars stopped on the track.
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The covered wheel championships in the ACI Racing Weekend in Imola
In the Mini ChallengeBristot did double also in Race 2, with Martinelli and Maccari to close the podium once again. A few minutes later it’s the turn of the Porsche Carrera Cup Italy to get on track. The championship leader, Ten Voorde, the opponent to beat is reconfirmed. The Dutchman, after a short stint in the 24 Hours Nurburgring, he returned to Imola to race in Race 2 and cap the weekend with another win. Masters and Klein closed the podium behind him.
Finally, it was the turn of the categories GT3 and GT Cup, who gave an exciting show to all those present. In GT3 PRO the team Imperiale Sport Car Servicewith Bartholomew and Denes, took his revenge after being excluded from Race 1. The BMW of the Formula E champion, Jake Dennis, she reached the podium together with teammate Jens Klingmann, ahead of the Ferrari AF Corse n.52.
To conclude the weekend was the race of GT Cup which, a few hours later after the checkered flag, saw an upheaval in the standings. There AF Corse of Pegoraro and Patrinicola she managed to recover from fifth to first position. The other Ferrari suffered a penalty and dropped from second position to fifth. Same thing for the Pollini cousins’ Lamborghini, which with one 10 second penalty they went from third to eleventh. These changes in the ranking gave the podium toThe VSR team and Ferrari n.178.
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