F-4S
FORSSWINS F-4S
EUROFIN TROPHY
SEASON-OPENER
I
t was Forss who ultimately grabbed
the upper hand and marked his
return to the F-4S Eurofin Trophy
series to take the honours in an
event interrupted by poor weather
conditions that forced officials to
cancel race 2.
The 20-year-old was fastest in first
practice and topped the time sheets in
first qualifying ahead of Lijcs and Mike
Szymura and led from start-to-finish
overcoming tricky conditions to win race
1, with defending Champion Szymura
starting the defence of his title with a
solid race long drive in second to finish
ahead of 18 year-old Lijcs.
After
a
somewhat
processional
beginning the 19 lap race sparked in to
life at the end of lap 14 when Motorglass
F1 Team’s Norwegian driver Jan Andre
Landsnes overcooked it as he harried
and chased down Mad-Croc’s Lijcs, and
had closed the gap to under a second
when he barrel-rolled out of the race at
the final turn of the lap.
Forss, who won the F-4S Eurofin Trophy
in 2012, took full advantage of starting
from pole but was unable to shake off
the attentions of F1 GC Atlantic’s German
driver who closed to within less than a
second when the yellow flag came out
with Landsnes’ spectacular exit.
Sweden’s Jesper Forss and
Latvia’s Nikita Lijcs were
the stand-out drivers at the
Eurofin Trophy
season-opener in Doha,
Qatar dominating and
trading places on the time
sheets in both practice and
qualifying sessions.
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