By IRRC 2024 Frohburg qualifying lived up to its pre-event hype, with a fair few event wildcards starring.
In particular, the spotlight loomed on Broncos Racing Team’s Luca Salvadori. As shown earlier this year at Hengelo (Varsselring), Schleizer Dreieck, the Italian rider adapts ultra quick to street circuits and similar vibes arose today at Frohburg.
Almost instantly on unofficial lap-record breaking pace within Q2, Salvadori’s fifth timed lap (1.32.427), unlocked another stratosphere in performance, recording the first (unofficially) 1.32 seconds lap time from IRRC Frohburg activities.
Coming nearest to Salvadori’s striking pole-position capturing time, 1.548 seconds adrift was IRRC SBK Championship leader David Datzer (1.33.975), lapping just under 1 minute 34 seconds.
Third, fourth speediest respectively, Finland’s top pure road racer Erno Kostamo (1.34.110), IRRC all-time wins record holder Didier Grams (1.34.118) were separated by just 0.008 of a second!
Fifth quickest, hoping to become the first rider from Switzerland to retain an IRRC affiliated series title, Lukas Maurer (1.34.551) steadfastly led the Yamaha mounted rider’s challenge.
Completing the second qualifying session top ten were Luca Gottardi, Sweden’s no.1 closed roads exponent Markus Karlsson, Jorn Hamberg, former twice IRRC Supersport Champion Laurent Hoffmann and the continuously improving, Johannes Schwimmbeck.
IRRC Frohburg – Superbike Q2 Result:
Superbike:
1 – Luca Salvadori – 1.32.427
2 – David Datzer – 1.33.975
3 – Erno Kostamo – 1.34.110
4 – Didier Grams – 1.34.118
5 – Lukas Maurer – 1.34.551
6 – Luca Gottardi – 1.35.682
7 – Markus Karlsson – 1.36.018
8 – Jorn Hamberg – 1.36.277
9 – Laurent Hoffmann – 1.36.452
10 – Johannes Schwimmbeck – 1.36.646
11 – Udo Reichmann – 1.37.831
12 – Freddie Heinrich – 1.37.887
13 – Jan Buchel – 1.38.161
14 – Nico Muller – 1.38.710
15 – Rhys Hardisty – 1.38.712
16 – Darryl Tweed – 1.39.048
17 – Daniel Widmer – 1.39.454
18 – Christoph Kreller – 1.40.176
19 – Dirk Walter – 1.40.290
20 – Stephane Bednarek – 1.40.699
21 – Tiziano Rosati – 1.40.709
22 – David Brook – 1.40.845
23 – Christian Steinhauser – 1.40.986
24 – Olivier Lupberger – 1.41.043
25 – Dominik Haslinger – 1.41.735
26 – Rene Grundei – 1.42.448
27 – Lasse Karki – 1.43.108
28 – Emil Krchnavy – 1.43.114
29 – Daniel Wiesinger – 1.44.413
30 – Jakub Sprojcar – 1.44.420
31 – Rene Mlkvy – 1.44.607
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
