Bangkok--7 Jul--stuvik racing project
Thai driver Sandy Kraokaew Stuvik looked set to dominate yet another race weekend for the Euroformula Open Round 4 in Hungary. The Hungaroring Circuit hosted the Formula 3 event and Stuvik would be the fastest driver for both the Thursday and Friday testing ahead of the race weekend.
However during qualifying for Saturday’s first race, Stuvik had a car set too rigid in the rear and could only manage a P3 starting position. Teammate Artur Janosz secured the pole position, while Spain’s Alex Paulo was P2.
For the race start, the Thai driver having had a very good start, went for an aggressive overtake into the first turn, but overshot onto the runoff area and rejoin the race in 9th position. He started fighting forward and overtook a car immediately and then saw several cars crashing out or getting penalised, in the end he finished the race in 4th position.
Stuvik looked to be back on pace for Sunday mornings qualification for the second race, but in the end it was again Artur Janosz who would claim pole position, one tenth of a second in front of Thailands driver. The second race start was again good for Stuvik, but he soon started struggling and ran wide off the track in what would soon be revealed to be a front suspension failure. Mid way through the race the Thai driver had to retire with un-reperable suspension failure. The race was eventually won by Spain’s Alex Palou, with Poland’s Artur Janosz in second.
This means again it is Artur Janosz who takes the lead of the championship with 140 points, and Sandy Stuvik is in second, 5 points behind with 135 points. The next race will be at the British Silverstone Circuit in only 2 weeks time and promises to be another exciting race for the lead of the 2014 championship.
Sandy Kraokaew Stuvik races for the Royal Automobile Association of Thailand and is sponsored by The Pizza Company, Singha Corporation and Dacon Inspection Services.
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