Second row start for Michelisz in Valencia

2010. április 18. 22:58  szerző: Viktor Adorján

Norbert Michelisz returned into the Spanish SEAT Leon Supercopa and earned the 4th position on the grid following penalties that affected his results over the qualifying session. Zengő Dension Team's drivers Attila Solti and György Kontra managed 24th and 25th places.

The qualifying session for the first race could have worked out better for the Zengő Dension Team as the changeable conditions made the weather forecast pretty much unpredictable and this left Norbert Michelisz and his teammates on a circuit that could have been faster.

“It was a good qualifying but we made a bit wrong call in terms of tactics. We thought that the track will dry up but it didn’t happen that way. As we set it up fully for a dry circuit, I had to come back to let the guys to change the setup. Then heavy rain started to fall. Fortunately I did my better laptimes in the rain so this makes us hoping. Unfortunately it is very hard to predict whether it is going to rain or not”, commented Michelisz.

Norbert ended up 4^th on the grid, a bit more than 0.5 seconds adrift of pole-sitter and long-time rival Oscar Nogués. This is the official summary of the results but it should be noted that towards the end of the session Michelisz’s two fastest laptimes were deleted by the stewards. This didn’t affect Nogués as he topped the timesheet with 1:59.678 as Michelisz’s fastest approved laptime was 2:00.180 after he completed 11 laps in Valencia.

No more Hungarian cars were able to break into the top 20 on the starting grid as Attila Solti finished 24th by setting 2:03.417 while György Kontra managed 2:04.341 on the 25^th place despite doing three more laps than Solti.

“Driving on this pace it was pretty pleasuring. I wasn’t pushing for the speed; I brought back the car in safe and soundness. I hope the track dries up for the evening but it doesn’t look like that”, Solti commented after the qualifying.

György Kontra was not as happy as his teammate but said that the 25^th spot on the grid was a positive surprise for him. He added: “This was a wet qualifying and I don’t like the rain. All in all I was just experimenting with the track. My aim was not to be on the limit and despite this a 25^th place worked out. This made me surprised as well.”

The qualifying session was decisive for the start of the first out of two sprint races on Saturday, followed by a 14 laps-long main event on Sunday.  

Results

POS DRIVER TEAM LAPTIME GAP LAPS 1  Oscar Nogués SUNRED 1'59.678   13 2  Pol Rosell Baporo Motorsport 2'00.058 0.380 14 3  Marc Carol PCR Sport 2'00.079 0.401 14 4  N.Michelisz Zengo Motorsport 2'00.180 0.502 11 5  Gonçalo Araújo Araujo Competicao 2'00.643 0.965 14 6  Alvaro Fontes PCR Sport 2'00.767 1.089 15 7  David Saraiva   2'00.889 1.211 13 8  Diego Puyo PCR Sport 2'00.965 1.287 13 9  Eoin Murray Oasis Motorsport 2'01.008 1.330 12 10  M.De D.Bravo PCR Sport 2'01.034 1.356 15 11  A.De La Reina   2'01.075 1.397 12 12  Josep Oriola Monlau Competicion 2'01.151 1.473 14 13  J.C.Cortizo   2'01.360 1.682 12 14  Vitor Souto   2'01.750 2.072 12 15  Antoni Forné SUNRED 2'01.893 2.215 11 16  Daniel Welch Welch Motorsport 2'02.041 2.363 12 17  H.Arruabarrena PCR Sport 2'02.506 2.828 14 18  Luis Pons Porta   2'02.528 2.850 12 19  Miguel Toril Baporo Motorsport 2'02.744 3.066 14 20  Fabio Mota   2'02.867 3.189 12 21  David Nye   2'03.142 3.464 12 22  J.M.Dabad Baporo Motorsport 2'03.260 3.582 12 23  Matthew Telling Welch Motorsport 2'03.365 3.687 11 24  Attila Solti Zengo Motorsport 2'03.417 3.739 10 25  György Kontra Zengo Motorsport 2'04.341 4.663 13 26  Urs Sonderegger   2'04.590 4.912 12 27  A.V.Dabad Baporo Motorsport 2'04.605 4.927 12 28  Javier Ibran SUNRED 2'06.007 6.329 13 29  Boris Miljevic Advent Motorsport 2'06.243 6.565 12 30  Freddy Nordstrom Advent Motorsport 2'09.400 9.722 4 31  Oscar Mas   2'11.978 12.300 5