| Race report by Martin Hudy |
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| The Prague GP was held on November 17-19, 2006 in a small city near Prague. This race, as usual, is an exhibition of XRAY drivers because the Czech Republic is almost home of XRAY; over 70% of all 74 drivers were using XRAY cars. |
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| Drivers from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Denmark, Holland, and Sweden attended this race in order to have a nice racing weekend, plus visit some Czech pubs where beer is very cheap. Team XRAY was well represented by Jilles Groskamp, Martin and Juraj Hudy, Andreas Myrberg, plus the Denmark team with our new team member Martin Christensen, and of course Slovak, Austrian, and Czech teams. |
| Free Practice |
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| Free practice started on Friday morning and continued with timed practice in the heats until late in the evening. The fastest driver of the free practice was Martin Hudy ahead of Jilles Groskamp and Andreas Myrberg. |
| Qualifiers |
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| The race was made from five qualifying rounds with the two best points counted. If the drivers had same points, the fastest time determined the faster driver. Jilles found a very good setup in the qualifiers and set TQ by winning the 3 qualifying rounds. Martin was a little bit unlucky because he made fastest qualifier, however he did not set TQ because in the fourth qualifier he was leading but some driver crashed him and he lost the chance to set TQ. |
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Martin Lissau found a very good setup as well and was very fast in the last qualifying rounds. Andreas was very fast; however, he made a few small mistakes and finished fourth. Fast also were the guys from the Czech XRAY team, who finished in 5th, 6th, and 7th positions. Very fast also was Juraj Hudy who found, as usual, a very good setup and set the A main result and he beat drivers like Marcus Eder or Tony Eder who belong to the top-ranking Austrian drivers.
1. Jilles Groskamp XRAY T2â™007
2. Martin Hudy XRAY T2â™007
3. Martin Lissau XRAY T2â™007
4. Andreas Myrberg XRAY T2â™007
5. Michal Bok XRAY T2â™007
6. Michal Memecek XRAY T2â™007
7. Vaclav Strupek XRAY T2â™007
8. Balint Raiki
9. Martin Christensen XRAY T2â™007
10. Juraj Hudy XRAY T2â™007 |
| Finals |
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| Jilles, as a professional driver, knew how to stay in first place and he did not give Martin many chances. However, Jilles made a mistake in the second final and Martin took this advantage and won the second final. At the end it was Jilles who would celebrate first place and 4? liters of popular Czech alcohol drink, Becherovka, because he won the first and third finals. |
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Martin finished second by winning the second final, and Martin Lissau finished third being very fast in the finals and giving Martin a tough time especially after the start. Andreas was also very fast, especially after start, but small mistakes cost him a better result.
1. Jilles Groskamp XRAY T2â™007
2. Martin Hudy XRAY T2â™007
3. Martin Lissau XRAY T2â™007
4. Andreas Myrberg XRAY T2â™007
5. Michal Bok XRAY T2â™007
6. Michal Nemecek XRAY T2â™007
7. Balint Raiki
8. Martin Christensen XRAY T2â™007
9. Vaclav Strupek XRAY T2â™007
10. Juraj Hudy XRAY T2â™007 |
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| pictures from www.autorctrnava.sk |
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