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Podium
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Yannick Aigoin wins the EFRA GP in Lyon, France in a very strong competition.
Final results:
1. Yannick Aigoin - XRAY XB8TQ
2. Guillaume Vray
3. Jerome Sartel
4. Jerome Couchon
5. Nicolas Rodriguez
6. Jerome Aigoin
7. Renaud Savoya
8. Julien Lattanzio
9. Sebastien Chaffardon - XRAY XB8TQ
10. Erwan Legros - XRAY XB8TQ |
| Race report by Yannick Aigoin |
Romain Soret's XB8 TQ
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| The French Efra GP was competed in the middle of May at St-Exupéry, near the Lyon Airport in France. The track was dusty and very flat during all the practices on Friday, but became clean and very bumpy during the race. The best 3 of 5 qualifying results were counted. |
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Yannick and Christophe, his mechanic
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In the 1st round, G.Vray (Mugen/RB) claimed the best time, followed by J.Sartel (X1CR/JP) and Mehdi Annaby (Mugen/RB). Local driver Julien Desplaces was 5th, and N.Reynaud and Y.Aigoin were in the top 10.
In the 2nd round, R.Savoya (Mugen/Ninja) was the fastest, with J.Aigoin (Pirate/Picco) in 2nd, N.Rodriguez (GS/FX) in 3rd, and G.Vray in 4th â” all very close within 3 seconds !
In the 3rd round, J.Aigoin made the best overall time, G.Vray followed in 2nd place, Y.Aigoin (XRAY/RB) in 3rd.
In the 4th round, Yannick won followed by R.Savoya and J.Aigoin. |
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S.Chaffardon and his mechanic
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The final results were totally opened, with 4 drivers going for the TQ position: J.Aigoin, G.Vray, Y.Aigoin and R.Savoya. The winner of the last round would be TQ!
In the 5th and final qualifying round, Yannick made the best time with 8 laps in 5â™18, followed by JĂ©rĂ´me (5â™21) and Guillaume (5â™28), so Yannick put his XB8-TQ in the coveted TQ position! With Julien Desplaces and Erwann Legros both in a semi-final, it was a good qualifying result for the XRAY team. |
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Erwann Legros
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M.Farina and S.Chaffardon, both of who did not have success in qualifying, bumped up easily in the semi-final, as did very good rookie driver Romain Soret . This put six XB8-TQs in the semi-final. Yannick won the first semi-final, followed by G.Vray and R.Savoya.
J.Aigoin won the second one, followed by J.Sartel. XRAY drivers E.Legros and S.Chaffardon also went up in the main. |
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| During the main, all drivers were very close. Unfortunately, S.Chaffardon broke his throttle servo and so had no chance of winning. Yannick, with a very easy car, won the race on the very bumpy track. Heâ™s followed by current world champion G.Vray and world finalist J.Sartel. |
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