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The final round of the 2007 Visma Formula Palmer Audi
Championship has been won by Tom Bradshaw.
Bradshaw claimed his first ever FPA victory in an incident
packed round 20, with previous race winners Tim Bridgman and Jack Clarke
forced out on lap two, after an incident with Matt Hamilton.
The Accident Exchange backed Bradshaw was delighted after
his win; “The monkey is now off my back, and it’s an unbelievable
feeling. I got a pretty good start and once I got ahead of Stefan, I had to
work hard to consolidate my advantage. I was looking at my lead on the pit
board every lap, and it was fluctuating as much as my heart rate.”
Stefan Wilson’s attentions were on consolidating his
second place in the championship, and the F3 test as part of his prize. His
position was assured after Bacheta crashed out in the early stages of the
race.
Wilson said:
“I had to get the job done from pole. Seeing Luciano go off at the
chicane was bittersweet, because I knew that second was wrapped up, but
he’s a mate as well,”
Bacheta chose a high-risk strategy for the final round,
but it was to prove fruitless.
“It was win it, or bin it for me in the last race. I
put a load of front end wing on to try and give me an advantage, but I
overcooked it at the chicane and that was that,” said Bacheta
afterwards.
Jason Moore claimed the final spot on the podium, but very
nearly snatched second.
“I got a really good run on Stefan down the start
finish straight, and had the move lined up. I saw the yellow flag late
though, and had to back out. After that, I didn’t get close enough to
him to make a clean move,” said Moore.
Matt Hamilton emerged unscathed from his early-race
skirmish to finish fourth, ahead of Alex Brundle, who made a number of fine
overtaking moves in the middle of the race. Brundle passed Chris Chubb at
Tower on lap 11, then pulled away, finishing over eight seconds ahead of
Chubb.
Visma Formula Palmer Audi Championship
Round 20 classification
1. Tom Bradshaw 22m47.812s
2. Stefan Wilson +0.389s
3. Jason Moore +0.0952s
4. Matt Hamilton +1.653s
5. Alex Brundle +8.860s
6. Chris Chubb +17.285s
7. Richard Plant +18.888s
8. Richard Kent +22.598s
9. Ivan Lukashevic +23.476s
10. Max Snegirev +47.867s
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