First Race Action From Rotax Winter Cup
Tweet| 10 February 2013 |
press release
Saturday was race day at Campillos: The qualifying heats for the ROTAX Winter Cup on the Spanish karting track determined the final starting grid for tomorrow's final races of MAX Junior, MAX Senior and MAX DD2 category. Facing best weather conditions, about 100 drivers had to go for nine heats all told.
Although Saturday being the busiest day of the weekend, the races went off without a hitch, which is not only a proof of drivers' quality and discipline, but was credit of an all new video race control system and the 4Flag safety signal lights around the 1.588 metres long track.
Above: Senior MAX with James Singleton on pole
pic - Timo Deck
Japan's Sena Sakaguchi (Intrepid Driver Program), fastest man on Friday, had some trouble in defending his top position throughout the heats. Actually it was Josh Price (Chris Rogers M/Sport) performing best by taking two wins and one second place. This puts the youngster from the UK on pole position for the finals on Sunday. He will share the front row with Sakaguchi, who proved his skills by winning the last heat of the day.
The quickest of qualifying practice, James Singleton (Cole Racing), had a tough job in defending his top position. Especially reigning junior world champion Harry Webb (Strawberry Racing) was in best shape, winning heat one. But the man from the UK was not lucky in the second run, when he had to retire with mechanical problems, leaving the second win to Singleton. But in the last heat Webb struck back and took his second triumph of the day. Yet this did not lead into the aimed top result in the overall classification. For Sunday he will start the prefinal from rank six. Man on pole position will be Singleton who not only won one heat but gained two third places more.
Above: Sean Babington, DD2
pic - Timo Deck
Sean Babington (Dan Holland Racing) was the dominating man on Saturday. After taking best time in qualifying session on Friday, the man from Britain was unbeatable in the heats. He won all three of the races and thus is going to be on pole position for the final phase on Sunday.
And last but not least there was one more great thing worth to be mentioned: For the very first time RGMMC covered the race action live into the world wide web. The live stream of moving pictures, complemented by the vivid commentary of speaker Ken Walker, was an impressing innovation for European ROTAX Racing, which was followed by over 4.000 viewers. But the live coverage on Saturday was just the beginning and a small foretaste. For Sunday the complete final phase will be broadcasted on www.rgmmcmedia.com.
So stay tuned on www.rotaxmaxchallenge.com or www.rgmmcmedia.com.
Above: Junior pole setter Josh Price
pic - Timo Deck
Above: Top three qualifiers - (L to R) James Singleton, Sena Sakaguchi and Sean Babington
pic - Timo Deck
