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Ilia van Gastel report First Dutch nationals at the AMCA track in Apeldoorn (01/04/2010)

By:: Reporter-2

After a short sleep on sundayevening, we left the hotel at 3 o'clock at night and took the plane and 6.30.. I had one week to pick up some sleep and than we left for the 1st dutch championship at Apeldoorn. Actually I didn't change much on the car on saturday, just tried few mega engines, which worked really fine, and super speed. From now on we have also 7min qualifier. But the first two like John mentioned in his report, were kind of wet. Only the last one was really dry, so we all went for it. After the heat I was kind of suprised, that I Tq'd 6 sec in front of Rick V. So I had a good feeling for the final.

But like usually it rained again in the afternoon, so we started on a little wet track. and I made the wrong decission to start on wet tyres, Steven, Arie, .. started on dry ones which was the better option. I lost some time in the beginning, Robin D'hondt was infront and really fast on wet tyres.. we both changed at 5min, but my tyre stop didn't go well, and I lost 6 laps. But the car worked awesome on the dry track so I could make up some laps, in the end I was just 1 sec behind steven for 3th place. Congrats to Robin who won after a strong final.

Till next time.

Ilia