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Florian wins at Monza and retakes championship lead!
Faster Than Speed - Italy Report

Category: Press-release

For the fourth year in succession, Faster

"Florian wins, retakes lead!"

Than Speed took a World Series victory away from the Monza weekend, as Florian Pechon took his sixth win of the season in Italy, his fifth one onboard the FTS-P8.

With this result, he climbed back to the top of the standings, after losing the lead with his Spa retirement.

World Championship

Sergio Casalins was back in the cockpit after a few absences, and showed he definitely lost no speed. Sergio was 3rd fastest in both Q1 and Q2 sessions, placing the FTS-P8 in the front row after 2nd placed Kanitz recieved a grid penalty. A fantastic Qualifying effort which equalled his Montreal performance. Team-mate Giuseppe Marconi qualified 17th on home soil.

A less-than-ideal start dropped Sergio back to P5, but being the third strongest alternative after the dominant Marques and De Wit, Sergio's podium hopes were intact. It was soon all over though, as he turned normally into the Ascari chicane, but unexpectedly lost control of his car and smashed the barriers heavily on lap 16. Giuseppe´s race was compromised at the start, when he drove through the runoff area to avoid an incident and recieved a 10 seconds stop-and-go penalty. His day ended with a spin while trying to make up the lost ground, in another disappointing WC race for the team.

World Series Ace

Gabriel Montanes drove a good lap in Q1 to secure 12th on the grid. Unfortunately, his good race was compromised when

"Faster Than Speed 2008"

Samuel Libeert passed him by cutting the first chicane. As the position wasn't given back, Gabriel tried to pass him, but went off in Parabolica, hampered by the smoke from Libeert's brake lockup. Gabriel recovered well to finish the race in 9th place.

World Series Pro

Faisal Niazi made his comeback to the Pro division after technical problems didn't allow him to participate in Spa. After securing 21st on the grid, Faisal had a difficult race, having to pit twice in the first two laps, which left him 20th and almost 2 minutes behind the leader by lap 3. However, he recovered well to finish 12th.

World Series Advanced

Florian Pechon and debutant Marko Buhin, from Croatia, entered Q2 by setting the 2nd and 4th quickest times respectively during the first Qualifying session. In the same order, they secured the front row of the grid, in what was an impressive first performance from Marko, 3rd in Q2. Drazen Cokor took 12th on the grid, while Roy Wachtmeester was unable to make the top-24 cut, with the 28th fastest time.

Florian kept the lead after a good start, while Marko lost a position but was still 3rd. Drazen had a difficult start, as he was hit by Salberg after a spin, that incident causing damage on his car.

Berdin took the fight to Florian from the start, but the Belgian led 39 out of the race's 40 laps, despite a mistake which caused him to race with the wrong tyre compound. It was

"Florian rides the kerbs agressively (FTS-P8)"

another fantastic performance from Florian, fighting-back from his Spa DNF, winning his sixth race of the season and retaking the championship lead from Jorge Maenen in the proccess, by only 2 points with 4 races remaining.

Marko clearly showed the speed for a podium, but unfortunately spun in Lesmo on lap 10, requiring an unplanned pitstop for a new front wing. Despite being hit by Stankevicius later in the race, he recovered very well to take a couple of points on his debut, finishing in 13th place. Pushing hard with a damaged car, Drazen spun off the race on lap 24.

World Series Amateur

Juan Nicola took 9th place in the Q1 session, later securing 4th on the grid during Q2. Team-mate Heinz Vanderhoydonck couldn't have a clean lap and ended up missing the cut, with the 27th time. Juan's race was also very short, however, as he went off and hit the barriers in Parabolica at the end of the first lap, while running in P3.

Faster Than Speed will now go to Suzuka for the Pacific GP, in the return of the legendary circuit to FSR, after its absence in 2007. The team will be hoping to keep fighting for victories in WS while also returning to the points in the World Championship, in this challenging technical track.

Faster Than Speed
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http://www.fts-racing.net

Article by: Christian Smirnoff, 2008-09-27 23:12:24

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