Radical World Cup - Silverstone - 17 September 2007

It was an overall win apiece for Andzej Dzikevic and Stuart Moseley in the Radical World Cup races at Silverstone, with Jonathan White and Daniel Rowbottom taking the SR3 class in each event.

Ross Kaiser blasted past pole-sitter, Deek Johnston to lead the field into Copse, but slowed in his SR8 with a gearbox problem and crawled into the pits at the end of the first lap. Nigel Taylor thus took the lead but was under pressure from Andjez Dzikevic, who went past down the inside into Copse as they started lap two.

The Lithuanian opened a gap at the front, Taylor ahead of Bernd Rubig in third. Taylor and Rubig pitted on lap 11 when the pit stop window opened, triggering a flurry of stops, and once things had settled down it was still Dzekevic ahead, with Runig behind him and Shaun Balfe third having replaced Taylor, but a second stop for thier car dropped them out of contention.

Dzkevic stayed clear to the end, but the driver to watch was Moseley, who was charging up the order after replacing Johnston in the pit-stops. Into third by lap 16, he was closing on Runig whn a brief off at Club lost him ground. Hamperede by a sticking throttle, Moselely had the Greaves family Radical closing in, but just stayed clear to take third.

"The first laps were hard," said Dzikevic. "I planned to overtake at the start and increase the gap. After I regained the lead, I did what I could to keep the gap."

"The engine seemed to be revving high," said Moseley, "and with four laps to go, the throttle stuck about three-quarters open, so I drove the last four laps on the master switch!"

Sixth overall were SR3 winners, White & Rowbottom.

Kaiser again got the best of the start to lead in Sunday morning's 45-minute race, Moseley takig second with Dzikevic third. Kaiser was just easing clear when the safety car appeared on lap four, and racing resumed on lap eight, once the cars had shuffled into the correct order.

A lap later, Moseley pitted as the pit-stop window opened, fourth placed Taylor following him in to hand over to Balfe. Kaiser pitted three laps later, only to emerge eight seconds back from the flying Moseley - effectively sealing the win for Stuart.

"I didn't get a good start," said Moseley, "but I pitted first and got some clear laps with no traffic. It's five years since I last did a race on my own."

"I have no idea where I lost time to Stuart," said Kaiser later, "I expected to come out of the pits close to him but he was gone."

Baldfe was secure in third, but Dzikevic was slwing, his car sounding flat as he lost fourth to Tim Greaves. He then gaine dpace again in the final laps and was clolse behind at the end.

White & Rowbottom just held off Gonçalo Aroujo for the SR3 win and ninth overall.


 
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