The winners of the two Prefinals, Antti Ollikainen (FIN) and Gabriel Zughella (ARG), were on the front row of the Max DD2 Masters (Sodi) Final at Portimao, ahead of Troy Woolston (AUS) and Tommy Helfinger (DEU). Christophe Adams (BEL) was 7th, Charly Hipp (FRA) 8th and Michael Dauphin (FRA) 13th. Zughella took the advantage over Ollikainen at the start, Hipp was then 4th after having for a moment been in 3rd place. Zughella was trying to escape in front of Woolston and Ollikainen. Helfinger touched Hipp, wanting to overtake him with the slipstream, without any effect.
At the halfway mark, the battle remained tight in the top three, Zughella, Woolston and Ollikainen, as well as between Hipp and Helfinger for 4th place two seconds back. Woolston took the lead on lap 14. The hierarchy did not change until the finish, saluting the victory of Woolston against Zughella who was then penalised to 15th. Ollikainen took 2nd, Hipp 3rd, Helfinger 4th. After a nice end to the race, Dauphin took 8th place in front of Adams.
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