Verbrugge and Bondarev win the OK-Junior Prefinals in La Conca

The sun was back on Sunday morning in La Conca for the OK-Junior Prefinals of the 3rd round of the WSK Super Master Series. The track was dry, but not yet at the peak of grip, with a temperature of 9°.

Douwe Dedecker (KR/Iame) got off to a perfect start in Prefinal A ahead of Tigran Bunatyan (Tony Kart/Vortex) and Maxens Verbrugge (Exprit/TM) followed by Kirill Dzitiev (Tony Kart/Vortex). Dmitry Matveev (Tony Kart/Vortex) was penalised 3″ for his start. Bunatyan attacked the leader who found himself in 5th position. Verbrugge was 2nd while Nathan Tye (Sodi/TM) came back to 4th. Verbrugge then took the lead, Bunatyan replied immediately. The tyres continued to squeal due to lack of grip at the halfway point. Miguel Costa (KR/Iame) had made up seven places in 4th position, then moved up to 3rd followed by Dedecker. Matveev, who was second on the track, worked hard to reduce the impact of his 3″ penalty. He passed Bunatyan on the last lap, and was 2nd behind Verbrugge, winner after Bunatyan’s spoiler penalty.  He passed Bunatyan on the last lap, and was 2nd behind Verbrugge, winner after Bunatyan’s spoiler penalty. Dedecker finished 4th and Costa 5th.

Oleksandr Bondarev (LN/Vortex) finished the first lap of the Prefinal B in the lead ahead of René Lammers (Parolin/TM), followed by Griffin Peebles (Tony Kart/Vortex) and Kirill Kutskov (Birel ART/TM). Very fast, Anatoly Khavalkin (Parolin/TM) was back in the top three. Andy Consani (Sodi/TM) was penalised by 10″ and crashed at the back of the pack. Jimmy Helias (Tony Kart/Vortex) moved up to 3rd place, passing Lammers and coming back on Khavalkin. Jimmy moved up to 2nd before the halfway mark, 4″ behind Bondarev. The grip was beginning to return on the La Conca track. Peebles was back in 4th and Jan Przyrowski (Tony Kart/Vortex) 5th. Bondarev kept up his hellish pace until the finish, winning 6,2” ahead of Helias. Peebles was penalised by a place which left Khavalkin in 3rd position, while Vilmer Svahn (Energy/TM) took 5th place with a gain of nine positions.

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