By Marek Cerveny has successfully defended his IRRC supersport title, as victory in the second supersport race at Imatra, put him mathematically out of reach, for main title rival Joey Den Besten.
Joey who finished in second place, is now 50 points behind Marek, although he can match Marek’s total of points at the next IRRC round at Frohburg, if they finished on the same amount of points, Marek would be championship winner courtesy of his now eight wins throughout the season.
Photo by Lars Törnqvist
Finalising the top three in an enthralling second supersport encounter at Imatra was France’s Pierre Yves Bian, who has without a doubt been amongst the most improved roads competitors throughout 2016.
Thomas Walther finished fourth, Arnaud Seydoux fifth, Wolfgang Schuster was sixth as lightweight race winner Anders Blaha from Denmark, finished a more than creditable seventh.
The top ten was concluded by Sebastian Frotscher, Ilja Caljouw and Bjorn Gunnarsson on his own teams CBR 600 Honda.
Getting back to Marek Cerveny, now a two time IRRC (International Road Racing Championship) Supersport title winner.
He has joined a very select amount of competitors to have become a two times or more IRRC champion, as he joins Didier Grams four times superbike champion and Laurent Hoffmann two times supersport champion, in been a multiple winner in Continental Europe’s premier roads series.
IRRC Imatra – Supersport Race 2 Results:
1 Marek Cerveny
2 Joey Den Besten
3 Pierre Yves Bian
4 Thomas Walther
5 Arnaud Seydoux
6 Wolfgang Schuster
7 Anders Blaha
8 Sebastian Frotscher
9 Ilja Caljouw
10 Bjorn Gunnarsson
11 Stefan Wauter
12 Vladimir Sterlnik
13 Sammy Ahonen
14 Patrik Andersson
15 Boris Liegeois
16 Miroslav Sloboda
17 Henrik Voit
18 Mike Ceuppens
19 Petr Kostal
Words by Stevie Rial
