For Q3, he said for now he is thinking of leaving the car unchanged and instead focus on trying to get another strong run in. Despite having a ‘good car’ for the first qualifier, the Japanese driver made some small suspension changes to his Axon from last night for the morning conditions. Only 16th in Q1 due to mistakes that he contributed to both the driver and the poor light, Ishioka said Q2 was a much better effort from him. The Yokomo driver continued, ‘Bruno is so far away it’s frustrating but now that I have two solid runs I am going to try some stuff on the car the to try and close the gap to Bruno.’ The German concluded, ‘Overall I am pretty happy. ‘Again a solid run, again really close with Hagberg’, that was Krapp’s view on this morning’s effort. Looking to Q3, which is also expected to be on a dry track, the former 1:12 World Champion said, ‘I will stay the same with my set-up and focus on my driving’. I lost time at the end because I didn’t adapt my driving to the understeer than develops over the run. Summing up his qualifying, the gap to his team-mate smaller than in Q1, Hagberg said, ‘the car was good and I was comfortable for most of the run. I don’t really have anything else to say’. He added, ‘everything is going as we want. On his Q2 performance, the reigning Champion said, ‘it was a clean run and I just tried to drive with no mistakes’.

It’s good for the event to be able to continue in the dry’.

Christopher Krapp made it an identical Top 3 with the biggest surprise of the round being Hayato Ishioka who posted the fourth fastest time ahead of Alessio Menicucci.Īsked about the 1st of the four rounds of qualifying on today’s schedule, Coelho said, ‘I was surprised when I woke up this morning and it was dry because the weather forecast looked not so good.

A slightly slower time than Q1, Bruno Coelho stayed in charge with Alexander Hagberg backing up his surprise Q1 performance with another P2 from the second fastest heat. On a dry track, Q2 would be a repeat of last night’s opening qualifying as Xray again lead a 1-2 at the top of the time sheets.

SeptemAnother Xray 1-2 in Q2 as rain stays away in Italyĭrivers at the IFMAR ISTC World Championship were greeted with a positive start to Day 2 of qualifying in Gubbio, Italy, as the much anticipated bad weather that caused so much controversy yesterday hasn’t yet arrived.

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