Antonio Pizzonia managed to take revenge for Race 1, as did his HS team-mate Paul O’Connell, who secured victory in the FORMULA class in the closing stages today.

The two World Series V8 4.5s of the HS Engineering team started the second race of the weekend from the front row of the grid. Antonio Pizzonia remained in front at the start this time and defended this position until the end of the race. Haralds Slegelmilhs was close at times and even had a small contact, but the Latvian had to settle for second place today.

The last race of the year was not without drama in the GP2 and World Series 3.5 category: Max Cuccarese (ITA, MM International), who was leading the race like yesterday, once again lost what he thought was a sure victory on the last lap of the race. Today, however, it was not a collision but a misunderstanding on the part of the young driver, who had taken his foot off the gas a lap too early.

Because Marco Ghiotto (ITA, Scuderia Palladio), who was following behind, also slowed down a bit, the man who had been in third place until this point took his chance: Paul O’Connell (IRE, HS Engineering) was the one who was caught on the final straight yesterday. Today the tide turned and the Irishman finally won the race ahead of Marco Ghiotto (ITA, Scuderia Palladio), who this year reclaimed the title from his rival Simone Colombo (ITA, MM International) after two years. Astonishingly, Ghiotto achieved this without a single race win, but with ten podium finishes! Colombo was unfortunately unable to take part in today’s race.

Yesterday’s race winner and BOSS GP newcomer Vladimir Netusil (CZE, MM International) finished in fourth place. The ZIGZAG duo of Nicolas Matile (MCO) and Jean-Christophe Peyre (FRA) were together for the entire race and finished fifth and sixth.

In the SUPER LIGHTS, top favourite Stephan Glaser (SUI, Jo Zeller Racing) had to pit early in the last race with gearbox problems. This opened up the opportunity for Walter Colacino (ITA) and Andreas Hasler (AUT, Hasler Motorsport) to take the class win. After a spin at the beginning of the race, Hasler started a race to catch up in his World Series V6 and overtook Colacino’s Formula 3000 in the middle of the race, which ultimately proved to be the race-deciding manoeuvre for the Austrian.

The champions of the 2024 season are Ulf Ehninger (F1), Antonio Pizzonia (OPEN), Marco Ghiotto (FORMULA) and Stephan Glaser (SUPER LIGHTS).

Picture: Angelo Poletto

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