Competition

Vainio at the finish

After a race full of twists, the young Finn at Maranello, Aaro Vainio, crossed the finish line as the surprise winner of race 2 of the European Championship in Super KF at Zuera. At first Oliver Rowland (LH / Maxter) led the race from the surprising Jason Parrott (Birel / Parilla), an incisive […]

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After a race full of twists, the young Finn at Maranello, Aaro Vainio, crossed the finish line as the surprise winner of race 2 of the European Championship in Super KF at Zuera.

At first Oliver Rowland (LH / Maxter) led the race from the surprising Jason Parrott (Birel / Parilla), an incisive Yannick De Brabander (Intrepid / TM) and a prudent Manu Renaudie (Gillard / Parilla) who was wary of the start procedure, given his pole position. On the 2nd lap, De Brabander stealthily took the lead, then dropped back to 4th when Parrott, Renaudie and Rowland returned to the front. In 5th Mardin Benjamin (Kosmic / Vortex) passed De Brabander, but was faced with an unyielding Vainio who had fallen to 6th at the start.

4th lap: Renaudie got ahead of Rowland, Parrott and Vainio. Vainio and De Brabander took a bit out of Parrott. Suddenly, on the next lap, Renaudie seemed to hesitate, allowing past Rowland and Vainio, then De Brabander and Parrott. We later learned that he was the victim of a seized stub axle bearing. That was disappointing!

Rowland settled into the lead, ahead of Vainio, and followed at a distance by De Brabander and Parrott, then Kunranta, Puhakka and Foster-Jones. The race stayed roughly in that order until Kunranta retired, then later De Brabander. At the start of the last lap, Vainio closed on Rowland, but not enough to attack. That’s when Rowland made a small mistake in the middle of the circuit, braking too late at the next corner, trying to defend his leading position at the hairpin. But he went a little wide and Vainio needed no time to take the opening and passed at the very end to win race 2.

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Publié le 12/07/2009