With Victory side-lined the fight for second
place was between Relekta-Zabo-Isiklar and
Abu Dhabi who traded place behind the leaders.
Ugur Isik and Christian Zaborowski passed Abu
Dhabi on lap 3 and held themoff until lap 7 when
they conceded position, and after the next six
laps and with a 20 second advantage it looked
as though Gary Ballough and John Tomlinson
were on course for a second podium, but on the
final lap Abu Dhabi slowed after running out
fuel, Relekta-Zabo-Isiklar gifted second place.
Third place went to Guido Cappellini and
Mikhail Kitashev in New Star-Poliform, running
in fifth for eight laps but taking advantage of
the retirees ahead of them to take their third
podium of the year, with outgoing European
Champions Miles Jennings and Alfredo Amato
finishing fourth.
After seeing victory slip from their grasp in
race 1 Aquasport’s Daniel Cramphorn and
Nico Huybens made up for it, going quickest
in qualifying in the morning and delivering an
emphatic start-to-finish victory over Chaudron
and Tommy One, and dedicating their win to
Mike Fiore.
Second place after Saturday’s retirement was
enough for Aaron Chiantar and Dominique
Martini to clinch the V1 European Championship,
with another retiree from race 1 Tommy One
rewarded after a late night working on the
boat, Maurizio Schepici and Stefano Bonanno
moving up from the back of the field to take
third.
Karelpiu’s Antonio and Giuseppe Schiano,
another team to work late into the night on
repairs, held off a race long challenge from
Bernico-New Star to take fourth, with Silverline,
who had been running in third, finishing sixth
after a spin out.
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