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| Race report by Carlos Manuel |
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The Portuguese Cup was held in Monsanto, Portugal, a "new" track that had been closed for 3 years and it was also where I did my first National race. Also we had very good pilots racing in the 1/10 class, including 3 Spanish drivers.
The track conditions were a little bit odd to me, because in some turns it had very high grip and in others the grip was very low, and I never raced on a high grip track before, and on top of that I wasn't able to go on Saturday to practice, only on Sunday, so it was very hard to find a good setup. |
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So in the qualifications it was more about to get used to the track and find the right setup, still I ended up in 3rd place, so I jumped straight to super pole but I had some problems and didnâ™t finish it.
After lunch we jumped to the semifinals, and with a good setup I was setting pace with 3 laps in advance of the 2nd place but sadly I ran out of fuel and finished in 2nd place for that semifinal, making it 6th place on the grid.
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Tomás Andrade, XRAY driver, on the other semifinal took 1st place and made 3rd on the grid.
So it was time for the finals, I started very carefully because of new set tires and I was scared my car would flip with the grip, but after the first refuel I was already in 3rd place behind Tomas, and was having a fight with him for the 2nd place, but I made a mistake in the main straight and I flipped over and 2 cars hit me, resulting in a broken shock, broken front tower, unfortunately Tomas had some problems too, after I flipped his engine started having a lot of problems and he wasn't able to finish the race. Despite all the problems I still finished 2nd. |
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| Final results were: |
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1. Cayetano Martinez
2. Carlos Manuel - XRAY NT1
3. Hugo Mendes
4. Pedro Igreja - XRAY NT1
5. Tomás Andrade - XRAY NT1
6. Tiago Afonso
7. Eduardo F. Riera
8. Pedro Grandao - XRAY NT1
9. Franco Vilarinho
10. Fabio Ramos
This time in the 1/8 Class Paulo Mota was able to get 2nd place with his RX8 2016, after a morning with a lot of work, the finals paid off getting a very good result.
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| Finals 1/8 results |
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1. Hugo Trindade
2. Paulo Mota - XRAY RX8
3. Nuno silva
4. Pedro Silva
5. Nuno Almeida
6. Rogério Araujo
7. Pedro Miguel Nunes |
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