Anthony Abbasse was within a hair’s breadth of walking away with the jackpot in KZ2 this weekend at the Varennes GPO. Facing a bunch of fierce rivals led by the leader of the European Championship, Anthony only left Sunday’s timed qualifying to competition. Sure, he did not win Saturday’s pre-final, but victory would have been his without a borderline manoeuvre of one of his rivals.
Abbasse gave his team 3 victories out of 4 and conquered the first place in the French Championship standings. This is how he commented the weekend: «We worked a lot to adjust my chassis according to track conditions and that paid off. With Nicola (De Cola), we defined an ideal racing strategy, which took into account the suction phenomena in the Varennes circuit and some relatively strong wind on Sunday. And results were great!»
His extraordinary result was completed by Mathias Gallepe’s excellent performance, despite some lack of driving practice on his first race of the year. A regular in the places of honour, the driver from Picardy reached fourth place in the Championship standings. This experience was very instructive for the whole team with a view to the European Championship, due to be held on this same circuit of Varennes in a month’s time.
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