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08/25/2002
- CRG DRIVERS JOHNATAN THONON AND SÈBASTIEN BUEMI
ARE THE NEW EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS OF THE 100 ICA AND 100
ICA JUNIOR CLASSES
Performances given by Birel drivers Erik Janis and
Michele Fanetti, expected to be protagonists respectively
of Junior and Ica categories, are not very successful.
Birel placed great expectations in the European finals
of the 100 Ica and 100 Ica / Junior classes after the
selections made last June, when drivers of the company
of Lissone had the opportunity of drawing attention to
themselves. And the competitiveness of go-karts and of
Birel drivers was also confirmed on the French racing
track of Angerville, where the final was played but, considering
that a final in single trial is a sort of sentence without
appeal, even good luck and circumstances can play an essential
role. Michele Fanetti, winner of the selections of the
Ica category made in Corridonia, was at the top of all
expectations and in the Junior category too all makings
were very reassuring thanks to Filippo Tedeschini, who
came in second during the selections and to Erik Janis,
European champion in office and still competing for his
title. Unfortunately Birel drivers got much less than
expected, especially Michele Fanetti, who came in only
twelfth at the finishing line, after having placed himself
even in the second position at the beginning of the race.
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100 ICA JUNIOR
After qualifying trials concerning the propaedeutic
category of the 100 class, Crg drivers Buemi and
Hulkemberg, attaining respectively the first and
second time, turn out to be immediately the drivers
one have to beat. But Birel drivers are very competitive
as well, with the Belgian Van Den Heuvel in the
third position, Alessandro Bosca in the fifth, the
champion in office Erik Janis in the tenth, Risitano
in the thirteenth, Cassaignes in the sixteenth and
finally Filippo Tedeschini in the seventeenth position.
After qualifying rounds the leading driver is the
Dutch Henk Waldschmidt of the Top-Comer team and
thanks to his four successful rounds out of five
he can attain his "pole" position at the
starting grid for the pre-final. Nico Hulkemberg
will sprint beside him, while Buemi and Herck place
themselves in the second row. On the contrary Tedeschini
and Cassaignes will sprint respectively from the
fourth and fifth position, while Alessandro Bosca,
who gave a very good performance in the rounds,
qualifies for the thirteenth position because of
his penalization due to an early start occurred
during the second round. Without this penalization
the Italian driver of the Birel team would have
sprinted from the second row. Janis too is very
unlucky during rounds and, besides being penalized
by a stop due to the breakage of the sparking-plug
cable, he has some set-up problems as well: at the
starting grid for the pre-final he will start from
the seventeenth position. And during the pre-final
the Swiss driver Buemi stands out once again, heading
Waldschmidt. Cassaignes (eighth position) is leading
among Birel drivers, while Tedeschini is slowed
down by a wrong set-up choice and at the end of
the race he will place himself in the eighteenth
position only. Bosca, who is out after the first
lap because of a technical problem, and Van Den
Heuvel too will sprint from behind the lines during
the final. Just after the beginning of the final
Buemi is leading the race and so Waldschmidt, Hulkemberg
and the Tony Kart driver Bollingtoft can only compete
for the second and third position. Tedeschini and
Janis are able to make up for their positions coming
close to the leading drivers, but the Czechoslovakian
driver can not finish the race because of the breakage
of the clutch. On the contrary Tedeschini is involved
in a scrimmage to the death with the Swiss woman
driver Gachnang, with Chinosi and Bosca and due
to an accidental contact he finishes the race placing
himself in the fourteenth position. Sèbastien
Buemi becomes the European champion of the category,
while Waldschmidt and Bollingtoft place themselves
respectively in the second and third position.
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