FRC: Sérazin bags 3rd win

Category: June, Miscellaneous, News Posted 11.06.12 20:30 by Eddi Laumanns

Bad weather with lots of rainfalls marked the Sunday at Châteauroux in France where Gaëtan Sérazin claimed his third consecutive FRC victory in SuperCars.

While the Saturday at the Circuit des Tourneix at Châteauroux St.-Maur had nice weather for competitors and spectators on offer the Sunday proceedings were hindered by lots of rain. After setting twice a fastest time in the qualifying runs it was Fabien Pailler, the son of Jean-Luc, who ensured himself the pole position for the all-wet A final. Beside Pailler Junior it was Gaëtan Sérazin and Philippe Tollemer who had also qualified for the first row of the A final grid. However, when the last race of the weekend had been started it was Peugeot campaigner Sérazin who shot into the lead, subsequently extending it and eventually claiming his third FRC SuperCars victory in a row after Dreux and Faleyras.

The first attempt of the Super1600s A final was stopped by the red flag due to some chaos produced by Stéphane de Ganay. After the second GO! it was pole setter Laurent Chartrain who powered his Citroën Saxo to an unchallenged victory over the two Renault Clio drivers Dorian Launay and Eric Guillemette.

The victory over Yannick Patier brought the lead of the Division 3 series to reigning champion Marc Morize, although second in the point standings Christophe Saunois, who claimed the fourth place at the Circuit des Tourneix, has currently also 55 points. The win at Châteauroux marked also the 50th victory in a Rallycross event for former European Autocross Championship regular Marc Morize (3rd of the 1992 and 1993 EAC).

While the victory of the Division 4 was bagged by David Vincent from Sébastien Le Ferrand and series leader Rudolf Schafer it was Fabien Grosset-Janin who grabbed the second Logan Cup win of the year after Faleyras.