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NEWS Formula BMW - 2009

     

26.07.2009 Formula BMW Europe - Races 9 + 10 - Budapest

     

Frijns finishing 4 th in Budapest – Regalia on P7 – Manzur two times in the points.

     

Free Practise: In the free practise on the very demanding track of Budapest, the Kaufmann Drivers had been able to show a good performance once again. Robin Frijns who missed the official testing days on this circuit due to an illness, had set the fastest practise time. Teammate Facu Regalia was on P 6, and Kazeem Manzur slightly struggleing on P 12.

 

Qualifying: In the Qualifying all Kaufmann Drivers struggled with using the optimum out of the new tires. Robin Frijns set the 4 th fastest Laptime overall, but didn´t found a clear lap later on and only qualified 10 th for race two. Facu Regalia qualified 7 th and 9 th. Kazeem Manzur wasn´t able to set two error free laps and only qualified himself on P 12 and P 11.

 

Race 1: Robin Frijns had a very good start and moved himself into 3 rd position in the first corner. Facu Regalia and Kazeem Manzur, both lost some positions in the opening lap. Regalia finally recovered from his bad start and moved himself up to P 7 again and was closing the gap to the drivers in the front. Anyway he wasn´t able to catch any better position and he finished 7 th. Kazeem Manzur was involved in overtaking action the whole race and wasn´t able to find his race rhythm. He only finished on P 13. Robin Frijns at the beginning was able to close the gap to the drivers in the front. In the middle of the race he was set under pressure rom the following car and finally lost a position and dropped back to P 4 at the end.

 

Race 2: At the start to the race on Sunday, all Kaufmann Drivers dropped back several positions. Facu Regalia spun during the race and dropped back to a hopeless P 20. Kazeem Manzur again was in many battles for order and wasn´t able to improve himself in the order. He finally finished on P 14. Robin Frijns recovered a bit after the first laps and was putting pressure on the drivers in front. Unfortunately overtaking was too hard and Frijns finished on P 10.

     
     
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