The second round of the Champions of the Future Euro Series ended in sunshine at Val d’Argenton with the OK Final.
Gabriel Gomez (CRG/Iame) got off to an excellent start but didn’t stay in the lead for long as Matheus Morgatto (Birel ART/TM) took P1 before the end of the first lap. Zac Drummond (Parolin/TM) was 3rd ahead of Thibaut Ramaekers (KR/Iame). Gomez regained the lead on the third lap. Drummond was 2nd, Ramaekers 3rd and Lewis Francis (KR/Iame) 4th ahead of Morgatto. Joe Turney (KR/Iame) was back in 6th place with the fastest time. Jimmy Hélias (KR/Iame) returned to the top 10 with a gain of seven places. Drummond followed Gomez and attacked him, but Gomez replied, followed by Ramaekers. Drummand recovered P2 followed by Francis, Ramaekers was 4th, closely followed by Turney. Meanwhile, Mees Houben (Birel ART/TM) had made up 15 places to 12th. At the halfway point, Drummond was 2 tenths behind the leader Gomez, while Ramaekers was striving to reduce the gap to 8 tenths. Kai Rillaerts (Sodi/TM) had moved up 13 places to 8th position. On lap 13, Drummond attacked Gomez, who replied. Ramaekers moved into the lead on the following lap, with Turney and Francis following in the top three. Morgatto came back to 4th ahead of Gomez and Drummond. The order was reversed shortly afterwards with Drummond 4th, Gomez 5th and Morgatto 6th. Turney worked hard to close on Ramaekers, a second ahead of him, while Jindrich Pesl (CRG/TM) came back in 7th. Ramaekers again pulled away from his pursuers with five laps to go. Ramaekers took a superb victory 2.8″ ahead of Turney and Francis. Drummond secured 4th place ahead of Morgatto and Gomez, who then dropped back to 14th because of a spoiler penalty. Jindrich Pesl (CRG/TM) was 6th, followed by Dmitry Matveev (KR/Iame) who moved up 21 places. Rillaerts was 8th (up 13 places), Aaron Garcia (KR/Iame) 9th and Noah Montero (KR/Iame) 10th. Hélias finished 13th, Andy Consani (Sodi/TM) 24th and Tom Dussol (CRG/Iame) 26th.
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