{"id":4672,"date":"2016-05-30T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hrcdistribution.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2016-06-18T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T09:05:36","slug":"thomas-vigneron-team-magic-e4rs-iii-top-qualifier-and-finishes-2-of-the-french-nats-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hrcdistribution.com\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Vigneron \/ Team Magic E4RS III+ Top Qualifier and finishes 2 of the French Nats round 3 !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Magic driver Thomas Vigneron made the pole position and finished on second position at the third round of French National Championship at Ampuis.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

The track of Ampuis is nice and interesting, with a very good overall grip. Facilities are also on top, with podium and club-house in hard construction, and good pits.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Practices and qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In modified category, Thomas was already extremely fast on Friday’s training, and continued to dominate the race during both the Saturday’s free and controlled practices.\u00a0He finally made some mistakes during the qualification runs on Saturday: a wrong start on Q1 (to close of the starting line, his chrono started 5 seconds before his “real start”), and a tire exploded in Q2 (badly factory glued, on one point), and a wrong tire strategy on Q3 (he started with old tires, while many others choose new ones).\u00a0On Sunday, weather changed completely for rain… sometimes heavy, sometimes light. On wet conditions, Thomas made two TQ runs to obtain the pole position on the grid for the finales.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

In 10.5 category, S\u00e9bastien Nardeux was very fast on saturday on dry conditions, but didn’t raced under rain, to preserve his material, especially the electronics, as many other competitors in 10.5 and 13.5 categories. Sunday morning, Aur\u00e9lien Rivard, made very impressive laps with a TQ run and and 3rd place in Q5. With that, he obtained a fantastic second place on the grid.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

In 13.5 category, the regional drivers was very fast. Hai-Long Tran and Romain Sansano reached the A-final with their TM E4S III Plus, but was a bit disappointed by their own performances.<\/p>\n

Finales:<\/strong><\/p>\n

First final runs started very bad for Thomas, with more water on track, is car suffered of aquaplaning due to a too low ride height, and he finished on the grass on lap one. Re-starting on last position, he passed many competitors to finish on third place behind Alexandre Laurent and Maxime Favrelle. For second run, Thomas choose to increase his ride height, but there was less water on track, and the roll center with higher ride height wasn’t good enough to keep his first place, and let Alexandre Laurent won the overall race with two first places.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

Weather one more time completely changed after the finale 2, and the track was just dry for the final 3. Thomas switched for his dry car, and won the third run just in front of his team mate Cyril N’Diaye and Maxime Favrelle.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

In 10.5 category, things was difficult for Aur\u00e9lien Rivard, who unfortunatly finished on the overall 6th place, followed by Laurent Desperries on 7th, while Sebastien Nardeux finished 10 due to his retirement.<\/p>\n

\"Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

13.5 category was quite difficult. Romain Sansano and Hai-Long Tran finished respectively 5th and 7th.<\/p>\n

Overall Result – MODIFIED:<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0Alexandre Laurent
\n2. Thomas Vigneron – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n3. Maxime Favrelle
\n4. Cyril N’Diaye – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n5. Manuel Wagner
\n6. Jean-Michel Varinard
\n7. J\u00e9r\u00e9my Limoges
\n8. Eric Loge
\n9. Christophe Varniere
\n10. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Beys
\n11. S\u00e9bastien Fender
\n12. Gonzalo Garcia<\/p>\n

Overall Result – 10.5:<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0Pierre Delorme
\n2.\u00a0Jean Delorme
\n3.\u00a0Alexandre Duchet
\n4.\u00a0Julien Jost
\n5.\u00a0Steve Favrelle
\n6.\u00a0Aur\u00e9lien Rivard – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n7.\u00a0Laurent Desperries – Team Magic E4RS III Plus
\n8.\u00a0Michael Jasmin
\n9.\u00a0Richard Volta
\n10.\u00a0S\u00e9bastien Nardeux – Team Magic E4RS III Plus
\n11. Renaud Brusselle
\n12. Antoine Verdan
\n13. Jean-Pierre Rabbe
\n14. Herv\u00e9 Becet
\n15. Yoann Bukowski – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n16. \u00c9ric Sautereau
\n17. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Velvindron
\n18. Alexandre Kunkler
\n19. Laurent Monbailly
\n20. Pierre Monti
\n21. Fabien Valantin – Team Magic E4RS III Plus \/ HRC Racing
\n22. Olivier Pierrat<\/p>\n

Overall Result – 13.5:<\/strong>
\n1. S\u00e9bastien Gibert
\n2. C\u00e9dric Gerbert
\n3. Alexandre Germingnon
\n4. Benoit Chambion
\n5. Romain Sansano – Team Magic E4RS III Plus
\n6. Samuel Verdan
\n7. Hai Long Tran – Team Magic E4RS III Plus
\n8. Nicolas Cardoso
\n9. Guillaume Desbois
\n10. William Pomarel
\n11. Briac Berthoud
\n12. Eug\u00e8ne Orer
\n13. Denis Vicente<\/p>\n

Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0many\u00a0drivers have been disqualified and don’t appears on the result, for non-marshalling on Sunday (rain).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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