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6/21/2015 Podiums in both classes for VSR at Paul Ricard
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Podiums in both classes for VSR atPaul Ricard21st June 2015, Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo (Round 3 Paul Ricard)
This weekend the beautiful Paul Ricard circuit hosted the third round of theprestigious Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo championship. A recordgrid of thirtyfour Lamborghini’s competed in front of an enthusiastic crowd andVSR entered an unchanged driver lineup with Kei Cozzolino and ShinyaMichimi driving the number 16 car and Olly Rae and Jacopo Faccioni at thewheel of the number 18. Paul Ricard was a new circuit for all four drivers so the weekend presentedthem with a challenging learning curve. After free practice on Friday qualifyingtook place on Saturday and each driver had just fifteen minutes in which to settheir best time. Cozzolino and Faccioni set the times for race one but theirsession was interrupted by a red flag with two and a half minutes left on theclock. Cozzolino qualified the car on the sixth row while Faccioni claimed aplace on row ten.
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6/21/2015 Podiums in both classes for VSR at Paul Ricard
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Kei Cozzolino and Shinya Michimi took the number 16 car to 2nd overall inSunday's race (photo by Photo 4)
Clear blue skies and perfect summer temperatures greeted the cars when theylined up on the grid for Saturday’s fifty minute race which was shown liveacross the globe on Motors TV, Nuvolari and via the Super Trofeo livestreaming. Cozzolino lost one place on the opening lap but was quick to claim it
back again and was running in 11th when the safety car came out. After threeslow tours with the field closed up behind the safety car, when it peeled backinto the pits the pit window was open and the team took advantage and calledboth cars in. Cozzolino handed over to Michimi whilst Rae took over fromFaccioni who had started the number 18 Huracán. By lap thirteen, when the pit
window closed, Michimi was in 4th place dicing hard with Crestani. A lap laterCrestani spun down the field after light contact with Michimi and the number 16
car moved into 3rd place. Meanwhile Rae was having a storming race and had
moved up to 12th overall, 5th in class. On the final lap he pulled off some
stunning overtaking and it looked like 3rd in class would be his reward until
Pellegrinelli drove into him. Michimi took the flag in 3rd place while Rae bought
his damaged Lamborghini home in 12th position, 4th in the ProAm class.
A postrace penalty for Pellegrinelli promoted the FaccioniRae partnership to
3rd in class, their best ever finish, whilst Michimi was given an exaggeratedlyharsh penalty for tapping Crestani and he and teammate Cozzolino lost their
6/21/2015 Podiums in both classes for VSR at Paul Ricard
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podium as a result.
The number 18 ProAm pairing of Oliver Rae and Jacopo Faccioni had theirbest weekend to date finishing 3rd and 4th in class (photo by Photo 4)
For Sunday morning’s race Michimi had qualified the 16 car on row four and Raehad put the 18 car on row six after posting the fourth fastest time of the ProAmdrivers. Michimi and Faccioni started the race but half way round the opening lap thesafety car was called out and the field remained behind it until lap four. Both cars
benefited from the errors of their rivals and when racing resumed Michimi was in 4th
place and Faccioni in 9th. A mistake from Kujala promoted the number 16 car to 3rd
and when the pit window opened Michimi was chasing down the Spinello/Moscatocar in second. At the end of lap eight Faccioni pitted the 18 car and handed it over toRae and two laps later Michimi followed suit. Cozzolino took over the 16 car and
when the pit stop window closed they were lying in 2nd. Through the second half ofthe race Cozzolino pulled away from the cars behind him and took the chequered
glad with a comfortable margin of eight seconds over 3rd place to take a welldeserved podium finish for himself and teammate Michimi. Rae meanwhile had
driven well again and bought the number 18 car back home in 8th overall, 4th in theProAm class. The Super Trofeo Championship will be back for round four at the aweinspiring SpaFrancorchamps circuit next month.
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Next round: Spa, 2325 July
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