2009B season news update

A lot has happened since the last news update with many changes and results; however the one constant is the names at the top of the championship standings with AJ Weber and Antares leading the drivers and team championship standings respectively.

In the past few rounds different winners have reaped the rewards. The Turbo powered cars however seem to have really got to grips with their engine designs with the standard engine cars now really struggling to keep the pace up the front for extended runs. Advantage to Antares, Rusyn and SDL who have enjoyed the feature wins in rounds all bar Suzuka. M-sport and A-tek drivers will be looking forward to the standard engine formula for the 2009C season.

SDL drivers have enjoyed a welcome revival of late, Dennis Loyer returning from occasional absence to dominate the Silverstone round and Stuart Barge enjoying his first Enduro victory in Bahrain.

Spa

Non turbo cars actually held the surprise fastest times in the run up to the Spa round and enjoyed competitive qualifying times but it was once again those turbo cars that had the long run pace.

Anthony Cochrane managed one sprint win but Celso Jorge and AJ Weber shared the rest.

Matt Lewis gained second on the feature grid behind Celso Jorge. On lap one Matt got the better run out of La source and was set to make of move at the end of the straight into Les Coombes but was caught out when Celso braked unexpectedly at the 300 meter board. With 200 to run to the usual brake point Matt had no where to go. AJ Weber sneaked through the resulting carnage to lead at the end of lap one.

Celso and Matt recovered but it was Celso with a much higher top speed hunting down and eventually passing AJ on lap 6. Celso would go on to hold this place to the end. Further back, Matt would get the jump on AJ during the pit stops and emerge with a healthy 11 second gap. Second was not certain however as a short fill left Matt fuel saving for the last two laps. Back marker traffic would prevent AJ closing the final 2 seconds on the last lap.

GP's take a break now as Le Mans beckons the Enduro finale but AJ Weber will head into the final cup with one hand on the championship trophy leaving Matt Lewis and Celso Jorge in with a chance but effectively scrapping over second.