Grand Prix EFRA inThionville (F) 1/8 Circuit
Report by: RB Products
Date of the race:	28-29/04/2000
Température :	18°
Drivers :	55
Weather :	The weather was quite nice during all the weekend with sun and some clouds
Track condition:	A new asphalt has been realized 4 months ago, the grip was good, the layout was not changed, the track-width is 5 meters and the length is 298 meters.
The second EFRA Grand Prix was held in Thionville, in the north/east of France where 55 drivers were present. Five nations were represented with Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Luxembourg and France of course. The club of Thionville made a very good organisation once more.
Engines : RB : 13, Mega : 12, Nova : 9, Picco : 3, JP : 2, Rex : 7, Top : 1. Cars: Vector : 28, Mugen : 9, Slide : 6, Intégra : 8, Kyosho : 1, BMT : 1.
The qualifications :
After 4 heats, The German driver O.Mack made TQ with 21 laps on 5:09.82. The second position was for Michael Salven (VECTOR/MEGA SX21 MS EV4) and the two last direct qualifiers were, Mikaël Fransson from Sweden and Ilia Van Gastel from Belgium, their Vector/RB Concept C4 combinaiton were very powerful and easy to drive.
Final :
Most of the cars into the final were Vectors with 7 cars and the more represented engine is the French RB Concept engine(4)! After the semi-finals, three French drivers went through into the final : Serge Christiany, Eric Nougier and Franck Bestel!, Michael Salven (VECTOR/MEGA SX21 MS) had a great start and led the race during 15 minutes but got an engine problem. Mikaël Fransson (VECTOR/RB C4) had problems with his centax clutch wich blocked and so stalled the engine during heavy breaking, he had to go back in the pits many times. The two French drivers, Franck Bestel and Serge Christiany (VECTOR/RB C4) were very fast and in good positions but they loose a lot of time after some driving mistakes during overtaking. All the drivers changed their tyres in the middle of the race time. O.Mack had a bad start but passed many drivers and finally was in first position but his clutch broke at five minutes before the end of the race! The young Ilia Van Gastel from Belgium with his VECTOR/RB Concept C4 powerful combinaiton at that time in 2nd position is now leading and won the race!
The next international race will be held in Grenoble(France) for the B European Championship at the end of may! Hope you will be there ! ! !

Results 4X4
Pos.	Drivers	Car/engine	Lap	Time
1	Ilia Van Gastel	Vector/RB C4	169	45:09.24
2	E. Nougier	Phantom/Top	167	45:06.76
3	Andreas Giesa	Vector/Mega SX21 EV4 MS	167	45:05.29
4	Jack Ermen	Vector/Mega SX21 EV4 MS	163	45:01.08
5	Serge Christiany	Vector/RB C4	163	45:05.29
6	O.Mack	Slide/Rex	162	42:47.76
7	Michaël Fransson	Vector/RB C4	161	45:08.12
8	P. Schaffer	Slide/Rex	146	45:15.40
9	Franck Bestel	Vector/RB C4	134	45:06.09
10	Michaël Salven	Vector/Mega SX21 EV4 MS	68	17:33.50

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