Wednesday, May 21, 2008

WTCC Rounds 5&6 - Valencia, Spain - 16-18 May 2008

On the first European event of the season, at Valencia on 16-18 of May, the Russian Bears Motorsport team and the Lada 110 2.0 S2000-spec made their maiden apperance in 2008 WTCC series.

However the two Lada 110 cars of Victor Shapovalov and Jaap van Lagen were considered transparent during the FIA WTCC races in Valencia, because of a technicality (the intake and the outlet ports of the cylinder head were not conform to the homologation form), and the cars were allowed to race upon the agreement of all the other competitors.
The team is due to make the needed adjustments in time for the next championship event, that will take place at Pau (France) on May 30th - June 1st.

16/05 Test Results:
20) Jaap van LAGEN - Lada 110 - 1:47.226

17/05 Free Practice 1 Results:
The two Russian Bears Motorsport Lada 110 cars did not take part in the session

17/05 Free Practice 2 Results:
20) Jaap van LAGEN - Lada 110 - 1:46.691
24) Victor SHAPOVALOV - Lada 110 - 1:48.983

17/05 Qualifying Results:
21) Jaap van LAGEN - Lada 110 - 2:04.796
Victor SHAPOVALOV - Lada 110 - 17:00.998 (DNQ)
(qualifying session on wet track, finally those who were DNQ were allowed to race)

18/05 Warm Up Results:
21) Jaap van LAGEN - Lada 110 - 1:46.050
22) Victor SHAPOVALOV - Lada 110 - 1:46.706

18/05 Race 1 Results:
1) Robert HUFF - Chevrolet Lacetti - 22:52.987
2) Gabriele TARQUINI - SEAT Leon TDI - 22:58.363
3) Jordi GENE - SEAT Leon TDI - 23:03.082
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20) Victor SHAPOVALOV - Lada 110 - 24:12.195
Jaap van LAGEN - Lada 110 - 3:08.796 (DNF)

18/05 Race 2 Results:
1) Alain MENU - Chevrolet Lacetti - 22:47.994
2) Robert HUFF - Chevrolet Lacetti - 22:50.435
3) Andy PRIAULX - BMW 320si - 22:51.946 13 3.952
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Jaap van LAGEN - Lada 110 - 15:21.784 (DNF)
Victor SHAPOVALOV - Lada 110 - 3:50.218 (DNF)

photo: fiawtcc.com