On the 2nd and 3rd of April 2011 there took place the first race of ROTAX MAX EURO CHALLENGE in Genk/Belgium. According to the entered drivers it was clear in advance that this race event will be the biggest race ever in the whole history of RMC as regards the number of pilots as well as the quality of them and their teams. It prooves that the organisation of RMC is really perfect and Ratox is becoming even more popular in Europe and in the whole world.

Totally 7 drivers from Czech Republic entered the first 2011 RMC race which is also the highest number until now showing that Rotax class is growing also in our country.

Our MS KART Racing Team was represented by Jiří Forman, Kateřina Žůrková and Vladislav Kurakin (RU) in the Senior class and Petr Fulín in Juniors. We arrived in Genk already some days before the event started in order to be able to test on the track at the week-end prior the race because it is the best way to train. .

On Wednesday morning the free practices started and everything culminated on Friday in the the time practice. Jirka Forman drove really well and made the 4th fastest lap time outr of 90 drivers ! The results of other MS drivers were: 52. Vladislav Kurakin 79. Katka Žůrková and 41. Petr Fulín in Junior MAX. After that the drivers were devided into groups a the individual classifficcation heats started. The best results were managed by Jirka Forman again who made 4.,5., 2. and 1. place. Unfortunatelly Jirka was disqualified in the first heat because his chain guard came off so he scored 38 penalty points. As a result of this he finished on place 20 only after the qualification heats. All the other drivers did not so well: Vladislav Kurakin 14.,15., 25. and a disqualification for an illegal contact on the track – totally 58th place. Katka Žůrková: 31., 32., 27. and 18. In total place 71. Katka had bad luck all the week. She had a good start in three qualification heats but because of a collision she always finished at the back of the grid.

Petr Fulín did very well in Junior MAX. He drove ahead all the time and with results 10.,14. and 13. he started from place 18 in the pre-final.

It started to rain on Sunday morning and all the pre-final and final heats were driven on wett track. It rained really heavily at the start of the pre-final so it was very complicated to overtake. All the pilots drove on the inner track and it was almost impossible to overtake from outside. Petr Fulín managed to finish at nice 14th place in the pre-final but then he had back luck in the final: he turned after the start and so left on the last position with a big lost. Finally he finished on place 23. After two races of the RMC he is currently on place 19.

Jirka Forman was running his way ahead in both heats. He finished 15th in pre-final and thanks to a great achievement in the final he came through up to the 8th position ! In total classification of the RMC 2011 he is now on place 9.

The next race will take place in Wackersdorf on 25th – 29th May.

Jirka Kahuda
Chief of the MS KART Racing Team

All results Seniors RMEC Genk

All results Juniors RMEC Genk