Champ on top

Enerberg and Johansson lead classes in wet-dry session.

Timed practice was run in mixed conditions, the Super1600 runners going first and starting their session with rain still falling while the track had begun to dry when the TouringCars ran and continued to improve throughout the time in which the Supercars were running.

In that rain David Johansson emerged as best of the Super1600 field, the Swede and his ever improving Citroën DS3 a scant 0.139s faster than Zdenek Cermak’s Skoda Fabia II and Johan Larsson’s Citroën C2. If the drivers with low starting numbers who wet last in the session appear to have benefitted from better track conditions, the star of the session would appear to be Stanislav Susta who, with a starting number of 25, popped in fourth fastest time, shading Ildar Rakhmatullin who, at number two, was last to go.

Johansson’s 45.239s best was eclipsed by most of the TouringCar racers, Lars Øivind Enerberg setting fastest time with a 40.683s lap to lead Roman Castoral and Derek Tohill.

The conditions had levelled out a little when the Supercars ran and there was just 0.001s between Sverre Isachsen who set fastest time and Tanner Foust whose ‘safe’ game plan seems to have worked out rather nicely. Pavel Koutny had a good run to third fastest time ahead of Liam Doran and Ludvig Hunsbedt who has been among the fastest all day. Mats Lysen made it to the track but slid off before setting a time while Frode Holte suffered a puncture but placed 17th.

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