By Supersport Race 1:
Marek Cerveny trimmed Jorn Hamberg’s IRRC Supersport Championship-lead to ten points following a composed, highly competent showing in the Chimay middleweight class race opener.
The mixed conditions all round did not put off in the slightest Triumph pilot Cerveny, who by the end of opening lap proceedings, held a plus two second advantage over Performance Racing Achterhoek’s Hamberg.
By mid-race distance, Czech roads ace Cerveny was in total control, doing everything he had to do to increase his IRRC wins tally to twenty-six.
Young Dutch roads talent Hamberg kept him honest though and at the chequered flag only 2.441 separated the prime IRRC Supersport title challengers.
BeNeLux Trophy Supersport race 1 victor Sebastian Frotscher got the better of Romain Cleaz Savoyen for third whilst an intriguing battle for fifth was won by Rico Vetter.
Never Be Clever Racing’s Rhys Hardisty enjoyed his strongest IRRC race outing to date, placing sixth ahead of Manxman Jamie Williams.
Mauro Poncini took eighth with Cornwall’s Forest Dunn, Wes Kleinfeld wrapping up the first ten finishers.
IRRC Chimay – Supersport Race 1 Result:
1st – Marek Cerveny
2nd – Jorn Hamberg
3rd – Sebastian Frotscher
4th – Romain Cleaz Savoyen
5th – Rico Vetter
6th – Rhys Hardisty
7th – Jamie Williams
8th – Mauro Poncini
9th – Forest Dunn
10th – Wes Kleinfeld
11th – Ilja Caljouw
12th – Matthieu Pauchard
13th – Elias Van Roekel
14th – Andreas Jochum
15th – Gregory Botty
16th – Amalric Blanc
17th – Lukas Vaclavovic
18th – Richard Charlton
19th – Thierry Vanhollebeke
20th – Thomas Wendel
21st – Clement Fitte
22nd – Peter Lionel
23rd – Jakub Sprojcar
24th – Nicolas Therouin
25th – Jimmy Wauters
Supersport Race 2:
The second IRRC Supersport encounter at Chimay, held over a ten-lap distance, looked set for a grandstand finish between aforementioned middleweight class titans, Marek Cerveny and Jorn Hamberg, before the Dutch racer dropped out of contention on lap six.
This enabled Triumph mounted Cerveny to run away with proceedings, going onto emerge victorious by 7.208 seconds over Hamberg’s Performance Racing Achterhoek team-mate Ilja Caljouw.
Hamberg’s misfortune means that Cerveny is the new IRRC Supersport Championship leader, opening up a fifteen-point advantage.
Romain Cleaz Savoyen’s excellent 2023 roads campaign continued with a stellar run to third whilst placings P4, P5, P6 went respectively to Mauro Poncini, Sebastian Frotscher and Anssi Koski.
Thomas Wendel took seventh with Jamie Williams, Jonathan Lesceux, Rico Vetter rounding out the first ten finishers.
Quickest Manx GP newcomer of 2022 Amalric Blanc finished 11th whilst Chimay newcomer Richard Charlton, attained a top twenty finish.
IRRC Chimay – Supersport Race 2 Result:
1st – Marek Cerveny
2nd – Ilja Caljouw
3rd – Romain Cleaz Savoyen
4th – Mauro Poncini
5th – Sebastian Frotscher
6th – Anssi Koski
7th – Thomas Wendel
8th – Jamie Williams
9th – Jonathan Lesceux
10th – Rico Vetter
11th – Amalric Blanc
12th – Wes Kleinfeld
13th – Robert Rohde
14th – Matthieu Pauchard
15th – Elias Van Roekel
16th – Gregory Botty
17th – Andreas Jochum
18th – Thierry Vanhollebeke
19th – Erik Kjuus
20th – Richard Charlton
21st – Nicolas Therouin
22nd – Lukas Vaclavovic
23rd – Jakub Sprojcar
24th – Jimmy Wauters
25th – Yannik Jacops
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
