Pietsch Wins EFRA-GP In Fiorano With ProtoForm

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Pietsch Wins EFRA-GP In Fiorano With ProtoForm

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Last weekend saw the first EFRA GP of 2010 in 1:8 On-road held at Minicarfiorano.it track! More than 70 drivers with world champions Lamberto Collari, Danieli Ialesi were present and after a very close qualifying the top four were as follows:

1. Lamberto Collari
2. Robert Pietsch
3. Andrea Cristiani
4. Walter Salemi

From the Semi finals following drivers managed to come into the main final:

5. Robin D’Hondt (Semi B)
6. Michele Romagnoli (Semi A)
7. Mattia Pesenti (Semi A)
8. Daniele Ielasi (Semi B)
9. Stefano Solaroli (Semi A)
10. Andrea Lorenzi (Semi A)

The following TOP drivers struggled in the Semi final:

Alberto Picco, Rick Vrielijnck, Marco Vanni, â€¦

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Final: Lamberto Collari, Andreas Cristiani and Robin D’Hondt had the best start – they were starting on the outside line with grip. On the inside (dirty line) Walter Salemi managed to overtake Robert Pietsch. Collari was pushing very hard at the beginning at get some space between him and Cristiani the local hero and track record holder. Pietsch had to fight very hard to pass Salemi and D’Hondt. After few minutes Collari was losing some ground and got passed by several drivers, the reason – a broken 2nd gear clutch – he had to pit and repair for long time!

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After 18 minutes Cristiani was leading by six seconds from Pietsch and additionally another three seconds in front of Romagnoli who was doing at this time very fast lap times and closing the gap to Pietsch. At 22 minutes Cristiani was doing a tyre change (36 sec lap time), so Pietsch got the lead before Romagnoli and Cristiani. At 25 minutes Pietsch (32 sec lap time) and Romagnoli (39 sec lap time) also changed tyres and Cristiani got back into the lead but only 1.5 sec in front of Pietsch – now the final saw qualifying lap times from the Top-3 drivers. Romangoli out at 34-minute mark!

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At 37 minute mark, Pietsch was going to refuel, a very fast stop by mechanic Felix Heyse. Cristiani was going one lap later for refuelling and â€œPapaâ€ Cristiani made a small mistake at this pit stop, losing some time and with Pietsch full throttle on the straight with Christiani at the pit exit trying to come out just before Pietsch but Cristiani was to fast for the small bump before the pit exit and ended up on the grass and lost four seconds. Now both were pushing extremely hard again and Cristiani managed to close the gap up to two seconds before the next refuel at 41 minutes – Pietsch was again doing one lap before Cristiani for the pit stop and Christiani was risking again at the pit lane exit and was again too fast and ended up on the grass! Pietsch had now a comfortable lead of six seconds until the end of the race. Daniele Lealasi managed with a cruising mode without a tyre change to take third more than three laps behind!