Press Release From Team Xray:
www.teamxray.com
Report by Alexander Hagberg
The annual GP3F occasion was held within the French metropolis of Longwy, near the borders of Belgium and Luxembourg. The occasion was offered out at 160 entries. The XRAY workforce was in full attendance, able to race it out in every of the three classes! As at all times, the monitor was spectacular, with an awesome quick and flowing TC structure. The tire alternative for the TC lessons this yr was the Rush 30, which labored very properly.
The race was held over the weekend of 21-22 of January in 2023. We began off with 5 rounds of observe on Saturday morning, earlier than finally going into 4 rounds of qualifying, the place the two greatest outcomes had been counted. In the modified class, I held the TQ spot with two wins on Saturday night time, however my teammate Bruno Coelho ended up successful Q1 & 4 and was finally awarded the TQ spot on a tie break resulting from a greater total time. This meant that we’d line up 1-2 on the grid for the triple A-finals.
Bruno Coelho received the primary two finals with a small margin to me, who chased him down in each finals. Bruno would safe his first GP3F win in type! I went on to win A3 with a tone-to-tone end, as soon as once more showcasing the dominant efficiency of the X4’23 automobile this weekend! Antoine Brunet, Marco Kaufmann and Oliver Havranek additionally made the A-remaining within the prestigious modified class, which meant that XRAY had 5x automobiles within the high 10!
Modified outcomes:
- Bruno Coelho – XRAY X4’23
- Alexander Hagberg – XRAY X4’23
- Ronald Volker
- Marc Rheinard
- Michal Orlowski
- Lucas Urbain
- Antoine Brunet – XRAY X4’23
- Marco Kaufmann – XRAY X4’23
- Oliver Havranek – XRAY X4’23
- Loic Jasmin
In the aggressive inventory class, our French workforce driver Alexandre Duchet would line up 2nd on the grid, exhibiting a powerful tempo in the direction of the tip of qualifying, however sadly narrowly lacking out on the TQ resulting from some errors. Alexandre went on to take the win in A1, and a 2nd place in A3, which was sufficient for him to safe the general win on a tie break! Alexandre is thus a again-to-again champion within the inventory class on the GP3F! Adam Izsay was on a mission all weekend, constantly placing himself within the high 3, in addition to successful A2, and finally ending up third total on this stacked area! French driver Steve Favrelle drove his X4’23 to a implausible fifth place, And Stefan Schulz additionally made the A-remaining for the workforce, making it 4x X4’23 automobiles within the high 10!
Stock outcomes:
- Alexandre Duchet – XRAY X4’23
- Tim Benson
- Adam Izsay – XRAY X4’23
- Simon Lauter
- Steve Favrelle – XRAY X4’23
- Max Machler
- Stefan Schulz – XRAY X4’23
- Louis Kretschmer
- Melvin Diekmann
- Olivier Bultynck
The FWD class was dominated from begin to end by Jacques Libar. Jacques transformed his TQ right into a win along with his X4F’23 automobile, clearly exhibiting the tremendous tempo of the automobile with constantly fast laps in each run. Congratulations Jacques! Florent Jadot, Chris Grenz, Sebastian Gilbert and Jean Charles Angot additionally made the A-remaining with their X4F automobiles!
FWD outcomes:
- Jacques Libar – XRAY X4F’23
- Alexander Van Gansen
- Gilles Rasquin
- Florent Jadot – XRAY X4F’23
- Xavier Debroye
- Chris Grenz – XRAY X4F’23
- Sebastien Gibert – XRAY X4F’23
- Florent Rousselin
- Peter Degrande
- Jean Charles Angot – XRAY X4F’23
I need to thank the MRC Longwy membership for a implausible group, nice monitor, catering, and an awesome environment within the pits! We are trying ahead to subsequent yr!
Thank you all XRAY drivers on your good outcomes and your help in our model – till subsequent time!