Ilia van Gastel dominates Dutch EFRA GP



Last weekend saw the EFRA Grand Prix 1/8 IC on road run at the beautiful AMCA track in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. A relatively low attendance of drivers for a GP, but with plenty of famous names of European top drivers attending it was sure to be very close racing for everybody and a highly competitive event. TQ went to Belgium driver Ilia van Gastel ahead of Serpent team mate Michael Salven, with Rick Vrielijnck in 3rd for Mugen and Oliver Mack taking the final direct qualifying position for Shepherd in 4th. The Fastest lap time of the event was done by Belgian race Gunther van Staey, a 14.078 seconds, which he did in qualifying round 3 on Saturday afternoon.



A relatively low attendance of drivers for a GP, but with plenty of famous names of European top drivers attending, it was very close racing for everybody and a highly competitive event.

TQ went to Belgium driver Ilia van Gastel. 2nd direct qualifier was Michael Salven, 3rd Rick Vrielijnck and 4th Oliver Mack. Fastest lap time of the event was driven by Gunther van Staey, 1 lap in 14.078 seconds, which he did in qualifying round no. 3 at Saturday early afternoon.



In the 45 minutes main final it was Ilia van Gastel who drove a very strong race from pole, resulting in a 4 lap winning margin of 2nd placed Rick Vrielijnck. Ilia only temporarily handed over the lead to Michael Salven during a tyre change halfway into the 45 minutes main final. Unfortunately after the race Michael’s fuel tank was found by technical inspection to be more than 125cc after the main final. So Ilia took a convincing win, with second place claimed by Dutch driver Rick Vrielijnck and third place going to German driver Tobias Hepp.



All race details of this 4-day, consisting of free practice on Thursday, controlled practice + 1st qualifying round on Friday, qualifying round 2 u/I 5 on Saturday, and all Sunday finals can be found under this link: http://amcaracing.mylaps.com/

Race Result