Hot Race Beach Cup 2015 – Report

Last weekend the Road Race Riccione track in Italy hosted the Hot Race Beach Cup 2015, a race event that sets a focus on the more fun aspects of racing with a lot of off track activities. The weekend started off on Thursday night with a go kart race at a nearby race centre that was won by Alessandro Bracci. On Friday, after a happy hour on the track, the drivers went to Coco Rico Beach next to the sea to have a drink together and to recharge the vital batteries with a typical sea dinner. Finally on Saturday everyone would have dinner and some music at the Villa delle Rose venue. As for the racing side of things in the Touring Car Modified class Ronald Völker, Alexander Hagberg and Alessio Menicucci would make the top 3 after the qualifying and Ronald would went on to win the finals from JJ Wang after Alexander suffered problems in the final legs. Just like in qualifying Alessio would round out the top 3.

In the Touring Car Stock class Mattia Collina, Nico Catelani and Simone Aleotti would make the podium after finishing the qualifiers in the same order.

Finally in the Formula class Jan Ratheisky took the TQ from Olivier Bultynck and Enea Zani. In the finals Jan and Olivier swapped positions, handing Olivier the win in front of Jan and Enea. Finally in a Dash for Cash race Manuel Busoli came out successful in the Modified class while Davide Rabitti took the Stock class win and Jan Ratheisky grabbed the Formula honours.

Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]