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Vintage Road Racing European Championship

Vintage Road Racing European Championship:
round 2 at Donington Park

The Vintage Road Racing European Championship has stopped at Donington Park, Great Britain, for the second round of the season.
A few drops of rain did not slow up the riders during qualifying on first day and in particular the Blumaq AJR Classic Team riders Sergio Fuertes and Javier Triguero soon settled into the fast-flowing track and qualified on the front row on their first visit to the circuit. Fuertes retired in the first race whilst leading, but made up for the disappointment by winning the second race by over ten seconds from his team-mate. With two solid second places Triguero took forty points and close within one point of second place man in the Championship, Neil Watson.
The UK riders ruled the Class 2 (200cc) filling five of the top six places. Tanja Hentschel stopped a UK clean sweep and her fourth and fifth places moved her the top of the Class 2 standings.
Pentti Elo made the four day 2600 km drive from Finland to win both Class 3 250cc races at a canter.
Other class winners were Bernd Pollmann in Class 5 (500cc), Magnus Mossberg in the Forgotten Era class and John Chambers in the Post Classic Class.
Regular FIME competitors Hasse Gustafson and Kent Jornevall had a mechanical nightmare of a weekend with a conrod breaking out of the crankcase of Jornevall bike in qualifying and ignition problems plaguing Gustafson’s Ducati all weekend.
At the end of August Croatia will host the final round of the Championship at the fabulous Rijeka Circuit set in the foothills of the Dinaric Alps.

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