日: 2022年5月30日

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Silva set the third quickest time on the opening Qualifying stage and won three of the subsequent four selective sections across rural terrain in the Argos Orestiko region of western Macedonia to confirm the win.

The Portuguese said: “We are very proud to finish in first place in this rally. It is our first victory in an FIA event and we worked hard for a few years to get to this day. Our team builds our own cars and we started a few years ago. This is the third event that we have done in these cars.”

Fellow countrymen, Pedro Dias de Silva and Victor Jesus, finished as runners-up and second in the T1 section in their PRK Sport Rally Team Volkswagen Amarok and Alexandre and Rui Franco rounded off the podium places in a second Mercedes and gave Portugal a clean sweep of the top three positions in the general classification.

Poland’s Michal Maluszyński teamed up with Lukasz Kurzeja in an X-raid-built Mini John Cooper Works Rally to finish fourth and maintain an unofficial single point lead in the Drivers’ Championship after two rounds.

Santiago Navarro and Marc Sola extended their advantage in the FIA T3 Championship to 31 points with a comfortable class victory in their FN Speed Team Can-Am Maverick. The Spaniard finished fifth overall and 23min 54.5sec clear of the Portuguese category runner-up Filipe Nascimiento. Fellow Spaniard Ricardo Ramilo came home third in T3.

Amerigo Ventura and Mirko Brun came out on top in the FIA T4 category and strengthened their bid for overall championship honours. The Italian guided his Quaddy Racing Yamaha YXZ 1000 R to a late win over Polish title rival Tomasz Bialkowski. The duo finished sixth and seventh in the general classification, although the Pole continues to lead the T4 championship by the narrowest of margins in his Polaris.

Ventura said: “It’s an amazing feeling to be at the top of the podium in the T4 category. We were second until today and we pushed a lot in the last two stages. The stages were really rough but we are happy with the result.”

Lithuania’s Egidijus Valeisa and Spaniard Miguel Angel Valero were classified in eighth and ninth overall and third and fourth in T4 in their Can-Ams. Italy’s Andrea Alfano rounded off the top 10 in a T1 Nissan Pathfinder.

Alessandro Bellini came home in 15th of the 19 finishers to claim maximum points in the FIA T2 category for showroom production vehicles. Fellow Italian and Mitsubishi Pajero driver, Andrea Schiumarini, was second in class but a long way behind his fellow countryman after suffering technical issues.

Portugal’s Edgar Condenso (Ford), Israel’s Gal Shacham (Toyota) and qualifying stage winner Petr Hozak (Hummer) failed to finish the three-day event, which was held in punishing heat and temperatures well over 30°C.

The third round of the 2022 FIA European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas takes place in northern Italy on July 8th-10th.

More information on the event website and FIA European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas page on fia.com.

Photo: H. Silva/H. Damasio, Mercedes Proto 350 (#209), photo: Rally Greece Offroad Facebook

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Sweden’s Jan Ericsson defeated Dutchman David Vegter to win the Pro Modified category, while in Top Methanol reigning champion Sandro Bellio took the honours.

It turned out to be a great weekend for the sport of drag racing, with several European records broken as the championship returned for the first time since 2019.

In the Top Fuel category, the European record was reset, with what was the first run in Europe under 3.8s. In Pro Modified, Ericsson reset the record to 5.72s, while in Top Methanol Bellio stormed to an impressive 5.48s in qualifying.

In the first Top Fuel semi-final Horto defeated Susanne Callin to set a new provisional European record of 3.802s and advance to the final. It was only minutes later that the Finnish driver lost his just established record to compatriot Zetterström, who stormed to a stunning 3.782s while completing in bye run in the second of the semi-finals.

In an all-Finnish final Horto proved his consistency and covered the drag strip in 3.809s, as in the other lane Zetterström lost traction at the start and rolled to the finish, having to settle for second on her FIA EDRC debut.

Pro Modified it was action-packed right from the eliminations. Number one qualifier, fresh from breaking the European record, Ericsson logged a string of 5.7s runs to defeat the likes Norbert Kuno, John Tebenham and Bruno Bader on his way to the final, where he faced David Vegter from the Netherlands. The number three qualifier defeated Wayne Nicholson with 5,92s, to then improve to 5.90s against Kev Slyfield and improve even further in the semi-final against Andres Arnover, recording his first 5.86s.

In the final Vegter managed a better reaction time, but in the second part of the run Ericsson passed the Dutchman, recording 5.79s, with Vegter only achieving 5.90s.

Top Methanol’s top qualifier, Sandro Bellio, had a bye run in the final as Linn Fløysvik experienced engine problems after a run earlier in the day.

The FIA EDRC is set to continue at Tierp Arena in Sweden where Round 2 of the series is scheduled for August.

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