Another Mexican driver clinched his maiden Euroformula Open win at Misano. Jesse Carrasquedo won Race 2 in a hot morning in Italy, beating in the last laps his teammate Wiktor Dobrzanski and ensuring a 1-2 for Team Motopark. Yesterdays’s winner Javier Herrera (BVM) crossed the line in third after winning a duel with championship leader Rui-heng Yeh (Motopark), but was demoted to tenth after the race as he received a 20-second penalty for joining the grid too late.
Jesse Carrasquedo was clearly happy after the race: “I spent the entire race close to Wiktor, trying to figure out a strategy and when and where to pass him. At the end, on a track like this, you have to take some risks and that’s what I did at turn 4. It worked and it’s nice to take a first win and I have my season definitely launched.”
THE RACE - Dobrzanski and Carrasquedo sit in first row on the reversed grid and have a perfect start, while both drivers in row 2, Stack and Famularo, have trouble in their launch, and Ferrazzano starts from the pits following a technical issue. All this means that Yeh and Herrera are already third and fourth in the opening phases, preceeding Nandan, De la Torre and Baptista.
Dobrzanski keeps the lead in the first five laps, although Carrasquedo, Yeh and Herrera progressively close on him, soon forming a fighting quartet. Another quartet fights for fifth, with De la Torre and Stack passing Nandan by lap 7, and Baptista closing that group.
The first incident occurs in lap 12, when Famularo goes straight ahead of turn 11 and hits the wall. Shortly, after with a daring move, Herrera passes Yeh for third. The Mexican though will get a warning for track limits shortly after. In lap 16, Stack passes De la Torre for fifth, and Baptista passes Nandan for 7th.
Eventually, three laps from the end, Carrasquedo passes Dobrzanski for the win, with Herrera third resisting all attacks of Yeh.
