By Erno Kostamo ensured IRRC Superbike racing, went out with a bang this afternoon, setting a blistering new Frohburger Dreieck lap-record of 1.32.946 seconds on-route to SBK Race Two victory laurels.
The nine-lap race exploration began with the 2022 Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix winner, having to give chase post lap one thrills to the quick-starting Freddie Heinrich.
Taking the race-lead on lap two, Kostamo and the RVS Motorsport BMW would not forgo P1 across remaining race laps, gradually increasing his leading advantage, which at-the race’s optimisation stood at 6.217 seconds over lead Kawasaki exponent, Heinrich.
Laurent Hoffmann made it successive third place finishes, David Datzer (Datziii Racing by TW3 Racing – BMW) held off Michal Prasek (Rohac & Fejta Motoracing Team – BMW) for fourth.
Gary Johnson (Team Grams – BMW) had been in prime contention for another top five finish before retiring on the final lap.
Johnson’s retirement enabled Nico Muller (Muller Motorsport by Edeka Meisel – BMW), IRRC SBK Champion Darryl Tweed (Never Be Clever Racing – Yamaha), Jan Buchel (Speed Tec – Kawasaki), Virgil Amber Bloemhard (Performance Racing Achterhoek – Kawasaki), David Brook (Brook Suspension.com – Honda) to individually jump up one place to respective finishing positions of sixth to tenth.
Overall, twenty-five riders completed what is at this moment in time, the final IRRC affiliated Superbike race.
IRRC Frohburg – Superbike Race 2 Result:
1st – Erno Kostamo
2nd – Freddie Heinrich
3rd – Laurent Hoffmann
4th – David Datzer
5th – Michal Prasek
6th – Nico Muller
7th – Darryl Tweed
8th – Jan Buchel
9th – Virgil Amber Bloemhard
10th – David Brook
11th – Pontus Roestlinger
12th – Fedrik Matthys
13th – Anssi Koski
14th – Marcel Elsner
15th – Wally Jacobs
16th – Stephane Bednarek
17th – Thomas Altendorfer
18th – Florian Astner
19th – Wesley Ankersmid
20th – Rene Grundei
21st – Udo Reichmann
22nd – Christoph Kreller
23rd – Jakub Sprojcar
24th – Emil Krchnavy
25th – Rene Mlkvy
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
