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Race Festival Spa |
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Traditionally Race-Rally.be is host for the annual Race Festival at Spa-Francorchamps. The 2011 edition saw |
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participation from the Dutch Supercar Challenge, Formula Renault 2.0 Alps, the British GT Cup, Lotus Cup |
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Europe & UK as well as the F3 Classic & F. Renault Classic. |
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Dutch Supercar Challenge |
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Dodge Viper Competititon driver Diederik Sijthoff scored the very best results during the two races held on |
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a very sunny and warm Spa-Francorchamps. Sijthoff claimed pole position, took victory during both the |
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races and took the championship lead from Roger Grouwels. Just a few laps after the start it went wrong |
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for some participants resulting in a safetycar period. For a short while Rick Abresch took the lead but after |
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the mandatory pit stop Sijthoff took the lead and claimed victory. Peter Versluis scored a great second |
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place in his brand new Ferrari 458 Italia. This car was entered for the very first time in a DSC race and |
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Versluis managed to claim a splendid second spot on the podium with the very first appearance of this car |
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in the Dutch Supercar Challenge. |
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On Sunday Sijthoff started the race from pole and dominated the race. Peter Versluis followed second. |
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Both Roger Grouwels and Rick Abresch fought a strong battle with their epic sounding Corvette’s for third |
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place, as Cor Euser dropped back. The Corvette battle ended as Grouwels managed to overtake Abresch |
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during the 7th lap of the race. Sixteen year old Beitske Visser, without any doubt, the sensation of the |
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2011 season worked initially her way up from 5th to a second place. After the mandatory pits stop it was |
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Roger Grouwels who worked his way past Beitske Visser and close to gap with leader Diederik Sijthoff but |
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in the end it was the ETEC-driver who scored his second consecutive win of the weekend in front of Roger |
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Grouwels and Beitske Visser who finished third. |
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Formula Renault 2.0 Alps |
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The Formula Renault 2.0 Alps is an international challenge for Formula Renault 2.0 drivers. During the first |
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race on Saturday it was Epic Racing driver Alex Riberas who claimed victory before Yann Zimmer (ARTA |
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Engineering) and Edolo Ghirelli (One Racing). On Sunday Alex Riberas was again the man to beat scoring his |
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second win of the weekend. Timmy Hansen (Interwetten.com Junior Team) finished second in front of |
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ARTA Engineering driver Yann Zimmer. Javier Tarancon’s fourth place during the second race was enough |
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to give him the 2011 title. |
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GT Cup |
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Thirteen cars entered the First 40 minute race on Saturday giving victory to Michael Saunders in his TVR. |
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David Tomlin scored a second place, less than a second behind Saunders. Francis Galashan managed to |
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score a third place in his Porsche 996 GT3. The second 40 minute race on Sunday saw Andy Ruhan claiming |
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victory in his Porsche 997 GT3. Simon Blanckley finished second but had no answer to the dominating |
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performance of Ruhan with a gap of nearly 32 seconds. Michael Symons scored a third place in a BMW GTR |
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E46. |
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Besides these championships the 2011 Race Festival also hosted the F3 Classic & Formule Renault Classic |
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series, as well as the Lotus Cup Europe & UK and a one hour challenge for classic GT´s and touring cars. |
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More photographs of this event can be found here : |
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