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Mad Croc BABA Racing’s Sami
Selio was more than satisfied with
second place.
The man on the move was Shaun Torrente, up six spots and ahead of
Duarte Benavente and Marit Stromoy, down five places from her start
slot.
Carella was in cruise control and 13 seconds clear when Trask caught
a wave and barrel-rolled his DAC bringing out the yellow flag and
stripping the race leader of his huge advantage as the chasing boats all
closed up on him.
The Italian would have to do it all again and did; five laps under yellow,
green flag andCarella set off, behind him it was opportunistic chaos for
several laps. Selio immediately got the jump on Chiappe who was going
backwards and being passed by everyone. The world champion and
winner last time out had a problem, the gremlins and the curse of Lac
leman had struck again, the bitterly disappointed Frenchman retiring
on lap 18.
Describing it ‘as the best restart of my life’ Torrente was on a mission
and moved up five spots in one lap and was up into a podium position
behind Selio, Al Hameli making up ground and passing Al Qemzi who
then lost further ground when passed by Andersson who had also
jumped his teammate Stark.
Stromoy wasn’t giving in and moved past Benavente who momentarily
had Roms behind him, then Francesco Cantando loomed large in his
new Blaze, up from 19th and running in 10th.
F1H2O
Mad Croc BABA Racing’s Sami Selio
emerged from the weekend with a
second consecutive podium of the year
and moved to the top of the drivers’
world championship standings.
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