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World Series
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Saturday, 19 June 2010 21:58 |
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Karim Wezenberg
Karim Wezenberg has taken his first victory in the World Series division today in Valencia, Spain. The race was characterised by incidents, including a dramatic incident between the race leaders Cyril Werdmuller and Stefan Kanitz that cost both drivers their front wings. Although Werdmuller was first to cross the finish line, a post-race penalty dropped the Dutch driver to 4th. Wezenberg gladly inherited the victory despite having to visit the pitlane for a new front wing too, with Fred Gosling promoted to 2nd after also having to pit to repair damage.
Stefan Kanitz (AllStar-Racing) took pole position again with a time of 1m35.041, this time with Karim Wezenberg (GhostSpeed Racing Team) in 2nd place. Starting in 3rd place was Cyril Werdmuller (Precision Motorsports) but just as in Montreal, the Dutch driver soon worked his way into the lead - beginning a race-long battle with Kanitz. The pair then collided on lap 39 forcing both to make unscheduled pitstops, briefly handing the lead to Fred Gosling (Leoncavallo Precision Motorsports) who quickly allowed team mate Werdmuller to re-assume the lead. Wezenberg also leapt ahead of Gosling to take the runner-up position, leaving Gosling in 3rd. After Werdmuller's post-race penalty, Wezenberg was promoted to 1st, Gosling took 2nd and Santiago Niza (Twister-Racing) moved up to 3rd. Werdmuller was demoted to 4th, with Dimitri De Matos (GhostSpeed Racing Team) in 5th whilst championship leader Mattias Stahre (Precision Motorsports) was 6th after also suffering a post-race time penalty. 7th was a recovering Kanitz with Atze Kerkhof (Torrent Motorsports - IPForge) taking 8th.
The next events from Valencia will come on Sunday 20th June, the World Trophy (11:30GMT) and the AutoGP World Championship (17:10GMT), live on MultiBC!
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