By Conditions all round were dry, prominently favourable for Sunday morning’s IRRC Supersport race opener, at Hengelo.
A drama-filled contest, ultimately went to WRP Wepol Racing Parts Triumph exponent, Marek Cerveny.
Right from the start, it was action packed, Never Be Clever Racing’s Rhys Hardisty, was involved in a multi-rider incident on lap-one whilst pole-sitter Jorn Hamberg, had received a twenty-second jump start penalty.
Hamberg set on lap-three a new Varsselring, Supersport lap record of 1.49.391 seconds, which was then exceeded on the following lap by Derek McGee, 1.49.111 seconds.
A tight battle on track between McGee and Hamberg ensued from here, with afore-mentioned Czech roads scene legend Cerveny, keeping prime proximity.
With two laps to go, under 0.6 of a second separated on the road, McGee, Hamberg and Cerveny.
Then the next burst of drama (across lap seven), Darryl Tweed, Romain Cleaz Savoyen both, retired soon followed by former Duke Road Race Rankings Champion McGee, crashing out of the race-lead.
The race was soon after red-flagged, due to oil at corner five. Results were back to the end of lap six, leaving Cerveny the final P1 occupier ahead of fellow Czech rider Petr Najman.
Hamberg on aggregate timing (reminder twenty second, jump start penalty) dropped back to eighth with third taken by Team Schleizer Dreieck’s Gary Johnson.
IRRC Hengelo – Supersport Race 1 Result:
1st – Marek Cerveny
2nd – Petr Najman
3rd – Gary Johnson
4th – Darryl Tweed
5th – Ilja Caljouw
6th – Kevin Mos
7th – Romain Cleaz Savoyen
8th – Jorn Hamberg
9th – Sebastian Frotscher
10th – Wesley Ankersmid
11th – Thomas Wendel
12th – Rico Vetter
13th – Mauro Poncini
14th – Luuk Pruijn
15th – Freek Lammers
16th – Bart Roenhorst
17th – Daniel Chovanec
18th – Mathieu Rieder
19th – Jonathan Lesceux
20th – Jonas Stracke
21st – Eddy Takkenkamp
22nd – Mike Mace
23rd – Gregory Botty
24th – David Brook
25th – Tom Kreunen
26th – Martin Baca
27th – Matej Vit
28th – Israel Eugene Gillette
29th – Mike Ceuppens
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
