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2003
FORMULA A EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - Angerville (France)
– May 9th-10th- 11th, 2003
GATTO MISSES THE PODIUM BY AN HAIR’S BREADTH
A
great balance characterized the first round of the Formula
A European Championship. You have only to say that in
the qualifying sessions there were 57 drivers in 5 tenths
only, and during the race both Grooten (round 1) and
Lammers (round 2) outdistanced the others with a lead
of a few thousandths.
The first important competition of the international
karting season, that is the opening race of the Formula
A European Championship, was run on the French racing
track of Angerville. Following the regulations issued
by the International Federation, that cancelled in fact
the 100 FSA World Championship and therefore the category
itself, the 100 Formula A becomes the top class and
the most important event of the world karting. That’s
why a lot of titled drivers are present on the racing
track, and they are competing in the whole continental
season, in expectation of the world cycling round that
the category will run in Sarno on October the 26th.
Among the others, the names of Davide Forè, Marco
Ardigò, Ben Hanley, Alessandro Manetti and Michael
Ammermuller stand out, and all these drivers competed
in the FSA category during the last season. The most
prominent names are joined both by drivers who have
already gained experience in the Formula A, such as
Lammers, Gaggianesi and Gatto, and by other up-and-coming
drivers coming from the Ica and Ica-Junior categories,
such as the European champion in office Thonon, and
also by Fanetti, Albuquerque and Hulkemberg. After the
qualifying sessions the emergent drivers are Lammers,
who gets his pole position with a time of 48’’.737,
Nyman, who comes in second with a gap of 71 thousandths,
Grooten and Ardigò, and this latter is the first
Birel driver. Gatto, despite his 290 thousandths’
delay compared with Lammers, places himself in the 13th
position, while some tyre problems slow down both Gaggianesi
(18th position) and Fanetti (22nd position).
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After
the qualifying sessions the Belgian Bertrand Grooten
is the driver, who can start his race for round
1 from the front position. De Brujin will sprint
from the 2nd position, Marco Ardigò from
the 3rd one, while the other Birel drivers will
sprint from the 9th position (Gatto), from the 17th
position (Fanetti), from the 20th position (Rohner)
and from the 24th position (Gaggianesi) respectively.
Unfortunately the young Australian driver Patrizi,
who is making his debut with Birel team, can not
qualify for the final due to some problems. Birel
team places all expectations for round 1 in Marco
Ardigò, but the driver from Brescia, after
his very good qualifying sessions, goes wrong in
his set-up, finding it difficult to be close behind
the leading drivers. And after a race where the
first 15 drivers arrived one after the other, he
succeeds in placing himself in the 14th position,
gaining 2 points valid for the results list. On
the contrary the race of the Sicilian Gatto goes
better and he gets to the chequered flag with the
group including De Brujin, Renaudie and Forè,
who sprints to compete for the 4th position, but
finally he comes in 7th, gaining 9 points valid
for the championship. Grooten is the winner and
he precedes both Lammers and Westerhof. The young
driver Michele Fanetti can not conclude his race
because unfortunately he goes off the track. In
round 2 the Dutch Lammers outdistances the recovering
Forè, who is a little in the background until
now, while Westerhof places himself in the 3rd position
once again, because with a sprint he succeeds in
preceding the very good driver Salvatore Gatto.
Ardigò concludes his race during the first
lap because of a bump, while Vega tyres, which prove
to be less effective than Bridgestone covers, slow
down the performance of Gaggianesi (14th position),
Rohner (16th position), and Fanetti (26th position).
The next appointment with the Formula A European
Championship is scheduled for June the 8th in Finland.
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