Dijon Prenois: Race 2 Funyo V de V Challenge – Race 2 and 3 V de V Single-Seater Challenge!

Dijon – Challenge Single seat V de V – Race 2: Cazzaniga in two stages

If the clouds are still threatening, the rain has deserted the Dijon-Prenois circuit at the start of the second round of the Single-Seater Challenge. The track is still wet, however, forcing the drivers to start with grooved Michelin tires. When the lights freed the pack, Daniele Cazzaniga emerged from his third place on the grid to take the lead at the first corner. The Italian leads poleman Xavier Benecchi, Jordan Perroy and Antonin Borga, but the race is neutralized before the end of the first lap due to a crash in Pouas. A new start is therefore given, constituted according to the initial grid.

Cazzaniga could be angry at having made, in vain, his effort to take control. However, he made another excellent start and regained his leadership, quickly threatened by Perroy. Despite the pressure exerted by the RC Formula driver, Cazzaniga resisted and, despite a final neutralization on the 5th of 9 laps to clear the cars of Michel Piroird and Nicolas Melin, flew to victory. The safety car having disappeared just before the finish, the final sprint only lasted a few hundred meters and Perroy, who tried everything for everything, failed by a hair's breadth of the GSK Grand Prix driver.

Before the neutralization, Borga, Buret and Benecchi formed a compact peloton grouped in less than two seconds. But the second named, victorious this morning, tore him apart by receiving a Drive Through for having changed tires late before the start. The Franco-Swiss Antonin Borga thus completes the final trifecta.

As for Sylvain Milesi, convincingly 6th in the final ranking, he won group B ahead of the Austrian Moritz Müller-Crepon and Grégory Choukroun.

Dijon – Funyo V de V Challenge – Race 2: Hierarchyfamily

The track having finally dried out in Dijon, the Challenge Funyo competitors are the first to hit the track today with slick tires. Holder of pole position, Romain Houllier got off to a hesitant start and was overtaken by Serge Hériau, Jean Quelet and François Heriau from the first corner.

In the second lap, the latter then leads a peloton bringing together Gilles Heriau, Jean-Pascal Burguet and Cédric Gardin. This quartet was soon joined by Arlan Boulain, 13th on the grid, who dislodged Houllier from 4th place on the fourth lap.

In the lead, Quelet quickly went on the offensive to get rid of the patriarch of the Heriau family and take control of the event. The battle between the two men continues for six laps, and while their battle allows Houllier to get back into the top three, François Heriau ends up getting everyone to agree. When he takes the lead, the son irremediably widens the gap and reaches the finish with a lead of more than 9 seconds over the second, who will ultimately be his father. The latter overcame Quelet and thus widened the gap in the Challenge ranking. Pole sitter Houllier, for his part, had the opportunity to take 2nd place on the 10th lap, but he fell back in the standings by going wide of the first corner. Falling back to 6th, he nevertheless took advantage of Boulain?s abandonment and an overtaking of Gilles Heriau to conclude his journey at the foot of the podium.

Dijon – V de V Single-Seater Challenge – Race 3: Buret at the conclusion

Whether the track was wet or dry, conditions encountered for the first time by the competitors in the Single-Seater Challenge this afternoon, Timothé Buret demonstrated that he was the strong man of the day. Positioned on the second row of the grid, David Zollinger's protégé got off to a great start, overtook the Italian Daniele Cazzaniga (winner of Race 2) from the start and climbed into second position behind pole sitter Jordan Perroy at the first corner.

The Palmyr pilot wasted no time in going on the offensive. While Cazzaniga and Antonin Borga battle for 3rd place, Buret takes the lead to the detriment of Perroy at the end of the pit straight at the start of the fourth lap. A sufficient gap then built up, reduced to nothing at the end of the fifth loop when the safety car was deployed to clear the car of Michel Piroird, who had gone out in Pouas.

The restart is given three laps later. While Buret once again takes flight to slide towards his second success of the day, Borga leads a brisk end of the race. After a first attempt on Perroy as soon as the race resumed, he found the fault on the ninth lap and reached the finish in 2nd position. No victory today for the RC Formula driver, but a third podium that only he managed to achieve.

The Cazzaniga family makes a group shot in 4th and 5th rows, Daniele ahead of Riccardo, while Romain Marcon and Nicolas Melin push Sylvain Milesi back to 8th position in the last loops. The latter, however, won a large victory in group B ahead of Grégory Choukroun and Thierry Aimard. Or exactly the trio in the order of Race 1.