EURO B NITRO TOURING CAR IN AMPUIS (F)
The very nice track! |
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1-4/5/2008 |
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AMPUIS |
| Temperature : |
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23°C |
| Drivers : |
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117 |
| Weather : |
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Sunday, sunny. |
| Track conditions : |
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The Ampuis track is 306 meters length with a quite long straight line and lot of small corners on the left side.
The track is dry on Tuesday with a very sunny weather. The grip is very good. |
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The 2008 B European championship is hold in France, in Ampuis a small city closed to Lyon (center of France), 117 drivers attend to this race during the whole week!
RB Products is an official sponsor of this race and will support all the RB drivers. We will keep you informed every day with news and what specialy happened during the day! If you want to be up-dated, just visit RB on-line report ! |
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Today, the sun is there with a dry track, lucky us ! The drivers were very happy to start the first four practices (10 minutes)
It is a pleasure for all the drivers to run on this super track where you need engine power to make your lap time very good. The RB engines work very nice on this track and the new R3 RC tuned engine is very appreciated by the drivers who just got it for this event. The power and high RPM are available, more than you can expect!
The young Austrian driver Manuel Singer, using RB R3 RC engine, is very fast during the first training sessions. The 2 Brothers team from Netherlands and lot of Belgium drivers are very happy with their RB R3 RC engines.
All the drivers are not arrived yet as there are about 40 missing ones who will come on the midle of the week.
See you tomorrow for more live info's... |
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WEDNESDAY CONTROLLED PRACTICE |
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Unfortunately a storm filled the track and the Club staff had to work hard to dry the track for the afternoon. They did a very good job despite a snake making a big shortcut on the main power supply network.... Big lighting and hours of work for the technician of the power supply company. Thanks to their quick repairing and the club mate job, we had 3 rounds of controlled practice on the afternoon, with two rounds on dry conditions. The forecast seem optimistic for the end of the week, so the race should not be disturb anymore by rain. |
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THURSDAY, TIMED PRACTICES AND OPENING CEREMONY |
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Today, the sun was OK and the timed practices indicated the fastest drivers. The RB driver Jacky Mouton (RB R3RC/SpeedLine/Concept fuel) is the fastest with 17 turns, 05:07.738
Daan Jacob from Netherland is also very fast with the 8th time. The local RB driver Thomas Eytard (RB R3RC/SpeedLine) is very fast too (12th)
The Belgium Jonathan Sanza and Michel Tomagra are very fast and should make a very good result tomorrow !
The opening ceremony has been very nice with lot of coutries and public (see below pictures)
Tomorrow will be the first qualifications...
Just visit us and you will be the first to know the results...
Keep on line!
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The first qualification was the fastest because of the quite cold air temperature and The home track driver, Michael Derderian with the Serpent/Mega/Concept fuel/SpeedLine tires combination, made the TQ with a super 17 laps on 05:05.506 ! Thomas Eytard with his XRAY/RB/SpeedLine tires combination is 2nd with 2 seconds behind the TQ! Italians Barbera Guido and Mario Spiniello are in the same second than Thomas Eytard, it is very closed so...
The last qualification will be tomorrow morning and temperature will be cold again, there is a big chance things move...wait and see....
Anyway, Francky Noens (who is a very friendly well known guy) from EFRA, just provide us the statistics and it is true RB engines are the most represented with 16% of the field (see below pictures)
Also, SpeedLine tires which just arrived on the market, is the second most used tires!!!
It is true these tires get lot of grip, even on special track condition!
See you tomorrow for hot news !!
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SATURDAY = LAST QUALIFICATION |
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The TQ remains the same, Michael derderian (SpeedLine tires/Concept fuel) is the fastest!
Another French driver, Thomas Eytard (RB Engine/SpeedLine tires) enjoy his new RB R3RC engine and is fird ! e has got the fastest lap time!
Frédéric Bourillon, another French guy is 5th and also enjoy his new RB R3RC engine!
All drivers who are using RB engines enjoy the service which RB products provide to all customers/drivers with advices, cleaning maintenance, etc...
Tomorrow will be the lastest day where sub final and main final will be very exciting for everybody!
See you tomorrow for hot news again! |
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The sun was shinning for the final day, but it was not a lucky day for the RB team: Daan Jacob missed the pit stop, and Jacky Mouton had several radio glitches during his hard fighting to bump up from the Semi.
Unfortunately, Thomas Eytard, who was the fastest man with the lap record, had also some interference which causes several crashes in the outfield. The lead was taken by Italian driver Mario Spinello, who lately lost some time when his spur gear failed. Then Dirk Wischnewski took the lead and this expert EP driver cruised until the end of the race. He won with a half lap gap to the very fast French driver Nicolas Bougnoteau and the German Thomas Günsel.
This was a pretty disappointing Sunday: we had a lot of expectations after the qualifications. The RB R3 RC were so impressive with lap record, the best top speed and a safety fuel mileage, but race is race and we would like to thanks all the drivers and customers who choose the power of champions for this race.
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| Pos. |
Driver |
Car/Engine |
Laps |
Time |
| 1 |
Dirk Wischnewski |
NT1/Orcan
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142 |
45:15 |
| 2 |
Nicolas Bougnoteau |
V/One/Wasp
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141 |
45:04 |
| 3 |
Thomas Günsel |
NT1 Orcan
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141 |
45:10 |
| 4 |
Victor Palaez |
NT1/Picco
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140 |
45:07 |
| 5 |
Michaël Derderian |
720/Mega
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140 |
45:11 |
| 6 |
Guido Barbera |
NT1/Sirio
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140 |
45:14 |
| 7 |
Dino Giacalone |
V-One/Sirio
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140 |
45:18 |
| 8 |
Mario Spinello |
G4RS/Nova
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137 |
45:10 |
| 9 |
Joffrey Défié |
V-one/Wasp
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136 |
45:00 |
| 10 |
Thoms Eytard |
NT1/RB R3 RC
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131 |
45:17 |
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