By Everyone of the forty rapidest racers from the past weekend’s ‘Czech TT’ lapped below 2 minutes 24 seconds.
Already widely noted, David Datzer has taken the outright lap-record into the low 2:12 seconds margin (2.12.041). Unofficially within second Superbike qualifying, ‘Datzii’ lapped faster, (2.11.843).
Outside current IRRC SBK Championship leader Datzer, seven more pure road racers, entered the sub 2:16 seconds’ bracket.
They were Erno Kostamo (2.12.449), Lukas Maurer (2.13.220), new fastest ever Horice newcomer Come Geenen (2.14.085).
Luca Gottardi (2.15.117), Johannes Schwimmbeck (2.15.538) and new Supersport lap record carrier Petr Najman (2.15.636).
Adam McLean (2.16.220) is the new fastest Horice Supersport debutant of all time whilst 26 competitors overall, obtained personal best ‘Czech TT’ lap times.
The overall in descending order, 1-40 rapidest 2024 IRRC Horice participants, special thanks to Czech Road Racing statistician Jan Vavra for compiling this, reads as follows:
(Best lap time located near racer’s name)
1st – David Datzer – 2.12.041 (overall lap record holder, plus all time lap record 2.11.843 set during Saturday qualification)
2nd – Erno Kostamo – 2.12.449 (2nd fastest time ever in history)
3rd – Lukas Maurer – 2.13.220 (3rd fastest time ever in history)
4th – Come Geenen – 2.14.085 (new fastest newcomer ever)
5th – Didier Grams – 2.14.529
6th – Luca Gottardi – 2.15.117 (personal best)
7th – Johannes Schwimmbeck – 2.15.538 (personal best)
8th – Petr Najman – 2.15.636 (new Supersport lap record holder)
9th – Adam McLean – 2.16.220 (new fastest Supersport newcomer ever)
10th – Markus Karlsson – 2.16.331 (personal best)
11th – Tomas Toth – 2.16.786 (personal best)
12th – Marek Cerveny – 2.17.112
13th – Rhys Hardisty – 2.17.468 (personal best)
14th – Wolfgang Schuster – 2.17.766 (personal best)
15th – Laurent Hoffman – 2.18.730
16th – Karel Brandtner– 2.18.801 (personal best)
T17th – Michal Dokoupil– 2.18.924
17th – Ilja Caljouw – 2.18.924
19th – Gary Johnson – 2.19.009 (personal best)
20th – Anssi Koski – 2.19.300 (personal best)
21st – Ales Sykora – 2.19.381 (personal best)
22nd – Mauro Poncini – 2.19.687 (personal best)
23rd – Florian Astner – 2.19.725
24th – Rene Grundei – 2.19.926 (personal best)
25th – Karel Pesek – 2.20.549
26th – Thomas Altenhuber – 2.20.958 (personal best as newcomer)
27th – Stephane Bednarek – 2.21.114 (personal best)
28th – Miroslav Sloboda – 2.21.236 (personal best)
29th – Matous Ondrusz – 2.21.342 (personal best)
30th – Darryl Tweed – 2.21.396 (personal best as newcomer)
31st – Tiziano Rosati – 2.21.577 (personal best)
32nd – Nico Muller – 2.21.581
33rd – Thomas Wendel – 2.21.810
34th – Emil Krchnavy – 2.22.023
35th – Jamie Williams – 2.22.424
36th – Sebastian Frotscher – 2.22.534
37th – Matej Vit – 2.22.717
38th – Matthieu Pauchard – 2.22.814 (personal best)
39th – Lasse Karki – 2.22.880 (personal best)
40th – Jiri Petrla – 2.23.288
Five more racers lapped sub 2:25 seconds:
41st – Maxim Zanaska – 2.23.544 (personal best)
42nd – Steven Bellavoine – 2.24.041 (personal best)
43rd – Thomas Altendorfer – 2.24.290 (personal best)
44th – Nicolas Therouin – 2.24.545 (personal best)
45th – Christoph Kreller – 2.24.759
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial, Jan Vavra
