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Free Practise:
Rounds
9 and 10 of this year´s Formula BMW Europe 2008 season had benn held
as support event for the Formula One Grand Prix of Hungary at
Budapest. In the free practise the Kaufmann Drivers Wittmann and
Gutiérrez had a good pace directly from the beginning. At the end
Wittmann set the fastest laptime of the practise and Gutiérrez
beeing 3rd fastest. Kazeem Manzur
only set the
19th
fastest practise time.
Qualifying:
In
the Qualifying Wittmann and Gutiérrez fought a hard battle for the
Pole Position but in the end both drivers had to be satisfied with
P2 and P3. Wittmann qualified for both races on 2nd grid
position and Gutiérrez on 3rd grid position. A very
disappointing Qualifikation had young Kazeem Manzur. Already in
trouble with finding any free lap, in the end he was punished by the
Stewards due to a breach of the driving conduct – P26 and P19 had
been the result.
Race 1:
At the
start of the first race Wittmann and Gutiérrez had a hard but fair
fight. In the third turn Gutiérrez took over 2nd
position. Due to a little driver mistake Gutiérrez unfortunately
dropped back again one position. In the following laps Gutiérrez was
attacking Tambay very hard. In the last turn Tamby opened a big gap
on the inside and Gutiérrez dived in. Unfortunately Tambay tried to
close the gap again and Gutiérrez wasn´t able to back off early
enought. In the end both cars clashed - Tambay spun off, Gutiérrez
had to retire because of a flat tire. Beneficiary of that was Marco
Wittmann who took over 2nd place. After a short Safety
Car period Wittmann was putting pressure on the leader Juncadella
but didn´t take the risk to start any overtaking maneuver. In the
end Wittmann finished close behind
Juncadella
on 2nd position. Kazeem Manzur also had a very strong
race. Started from P26 the young Briton fouhgt his way up to the
points and finished on a great 15th place.
Race 2:
Similar to the start of the race the day before, Gutiérrez passed
Wittmann on the opening lap. In the further race overtaking action
wasn´t possible. At the beginning Wittmann was putting pressure on
teammate Gutiérrez and in the end Gutiérrez was putting pressure on
the leader Juncadella.
Finally both Kaufmann Drivers finished very closely behind
Juncadella on P2 and P3. Like the day before Kazeem Manzur was as
well able to score points. He overtook some cars in front of him and
moved up from P19 to P14. |
