Felipe Lyon wins at Chilean IC Track Nats Rd8

The 8th round of the Chilean National IC Track Championship attracted a good number of entries, making for some competitive racing throughout the day. After the qualifications, Tomás Ramirez (IGT8/Novarossi) took the pole position for the 30-minutes long A-main encounter while also scoring the fastest lap with a 25.110. At the start of the 3-minutes warm-up time a servo failure already ended the race of Tomás who wasn’t allowed to start in the final. This was the opportunity for his teammate, Alvaro Jara (IGT8/Novarossi), to snatch valuable points in the championship to chase Tomás in the ranking. But Felipe Lyon (Serpent/Novarossi), using the new GQ-Soft Compound tyres and after missing the 7th round of the championship, pushed so hard, that he was able to beat Alvaro Jara to take the win. An interesting battle for the 3rd step on the podium was between Raimundo Puelma (Ofna/Picco), Alvaro Jara Jr. (IGT8/Novarossi) and Benjamín Ramirez (IGT8/GO Engines). Benjamín, with solid driver skills, continued pushing until five minutes before the end of the race, allowing him to get past both drivers to take the 3rd place overall.

Final results:
1. Felipe Lyon – 65L 30:09.193
2. Alvaro Jara – 65L 30:22.354
3. Benjamin Ramirez – 62L 30:15.820
4. Alvaro Jr. Jara – 62L 30:19.474
5. Raimundo Puelma – 61L 30:19.047
6. Rodrigo Cantergiani – 59L 30:10.593
7. Ernesto Grez – 55L 30:13.819
8. Cristian Ahumada – 36L 19:02.082
9. Patrick Walton – 35L 16:42.126
10. Tomas Ramirez – 3L 2:32.529
11. Angelo Vilaza – 0L 0:00.000
12. Augusto Buchholtz – 0L 0:00.000

Thanks to Tomás Ramirez for the report.