At the weekend of 7th to 8th December 2013, the GP3F Race took place in Longwy (France). The race was sold out with 150 entries. Even this year, two categories were presented:
Categorie 1: TW Modified
Categorie 2: TW Sport, with "0-boost" controller + 10,5T motor
Modified:
The track layout was very fast and the grip was very high. My car was working very well right from the start. I was one of the early pace setters. After Practise I was thirt behind Ronald Völker and Freddy Südhoff.
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The quail heats were dominated by Ronald Völker .He could win all five heats, and was TQ. The fight for the 2nd Place on the grid between Freddy Südhoff and me was very close. In the end I managed to qualify 3th on the grid after some clean and fast runs. Tim Wahl also made the A-final for XRAY. He ends up 7th on the grid.
At all the three A-Mains the podium positions were always same. Ronald won all the finals, Freddy finished in all finals 2nd and I was always 3th.
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Final Positions Mod:
1. Völker Ronald
2. SĂĽdhoff Freddy 3. Kaufmann Marco - XRAY T4
4. Fischer Marc 5. Wahl Tim - XRAY T4
6. Borowski Julian
7. Loic Jasmin
8. PrĂĽmper Yannic
9. Dankel Eric
10. Urbain Lucas
The stock class saw some strong performances from Xray drivers. Joe Streff from Luxemburg topped the timesheets for practice ahead of german driver Thilo Tödtmann also driving an Xray T4 2014.
Qualifying went very well for Thilo Tödtmann as he was again very fast and could capitalize on mistakes from other drivers to be overnight TQ. Joe Streff showed also a strong pace to end-up qualifying with a 5th place on the grid. Unfortunately, Thilo lost the TQ on sunday morning on a tie-break with Steffen Leinburger, both having 2 TQ runs in their bags. Struggling during saturday qualifiers, Valentin Lehmann broke into the A-main with a good last qualification round, securing the 10th place. Finals offered a great show, with Steffen Leinburger, Thilo Tödtmann and Markus Kreder fighting for the win. Thilo suffered some bad luck as he made a mistake in A1 and collected Steffen's car which was standing on the straight in A2. He had to settle for 3rd place. Joe Streff lost 2 positions during finals and Valentin Lehmann although being fast again could not improve his position that much, starting from to far on the grid, he ended-up 8th.
