By Toyota’s tense Le Mans 24 Hours victory with Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Nyck De Vries, Sir Lewis Hamilton’s first F1 victory with Ferrari, quite the day for four-wheel motor racing worldwide.
For roads scene superfans though, the prime, top news this afternoon is Marek Cerveny’s fortieth, record-extending IRRC affiliated race triumph.
His path to Circuit de Chimay victories duplex, was swiftly in the second SSP race, made serener thanks to an on the money opening lap, moving 1.2 seconds plus clear of the determined opposition.
From here onwards, Cerveny’s mix of consistent pace, astute race craft, allowed him to lap by lap, steadily grow the race-lead, which stood at 2.961, as encounter activities wrapped up.
Ilja Caljouw (Performance Racing Achterhoek – Yamaha) bested long term second place holder Gary Johnson (Team Schleizer Dreieck – Suzuki) for second, with 0.132 of a second separating the pair.
Mauro Poncini, Petr Najman placed fifth, sixth behind P4 attainer Matej Vit who claimed fastest lap honours (1.41.548).
Sportbike Race One winner Jamie Williams was tenth whilst TT 2026 exponent, Stock Twin front-runner Mike Mace finished fourteenth.
IRRC 2026 – Chimay Supersport Race 2 Result:
1st – Marek Cerveny
2nd – Ilja Caljouw
3rd – Gary Johnson
4th – Matej Vit
5th – Mauro Poncini
6th – Petr Najman
7th – Kevin De Haan
8th – Wesley Ankersmid
9th – Rico Vetter
10th – Jamie Williams
11th – Wally Jacobs
12th – Mathieu Rieder
13th – Sebastian Frotscher
14th – Mike Mace
15th – Jonas Stracke
16th – Robert Rohde
17th – Alexandre Bigot
18th – Brian Fuidge
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
