Last week end we had the 3rd round of our National Championship at the Lisbon track, the same track that will host the World Championship.
Forty-seven drivers attend the event. The weather conditions made it very challenging for all drivers; at any time it would be dry or wet or semi-wet, thus causing a lot of problems with grip and sometimes electronic problems. The three series of heats were raced in several different track conditions, never being equal to for drivers and in the qualifying finals we had unusual classifications with top drivers.
The sub-finals had the same unstable weather conditions, with track conditions changing continuously, and a âśdancing in the rainâť spectacle that was very nice to see.
The semi-finals had better track conditions, with the A semi-final having much more grip than the B semi-final, and once it was considered a âśwet raceâť the 10 finalist were:
From the start we saw the Filipe Costa engine become rich without any reason (it was okay before the start) and we lost 6 laps to adjust the engine properly. After that Filipe Costa blasted through the pack from 10th position to finish 3rd at only 2 laps from the end, 3 seconds from 2nd place XRAY driver Ricardo Mendes.
Team XRAY driver Filipe Costa made the best Lap with 19.222 with a dry track but not in the same conditions, much less grip, than track record Daniel Ielasi on the warm-up with 18.719.
