Portimão (Algarve), 12th April 2009

The fact it is Easter did not stop a big crowd of race fans heading to the Algarve International Circuit for the sixth round of the A1GP powered by Ferrari Championship, with a busy race card also including the European series of the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli and a double session of laps for the cars run by the F1 Clienti department.

In the second round of this season’s one-make series, drivers from both categories took to the track together for a single race, which for much of the time was run under yellow flags, following an accident involving the Danish driver, Dennis Andersen: he spun and was then hit by Britain’s Jack Gerber and the Frenchman Stephane Clareton. Once the track was clear, French driver Nicolas Misslin (Stradale Automobile) was first past the chequered flag, to take the win in the Trofeo Pirelli category, ahead of Germany’s Bjorn Grossmann (Autohaus Gohm) and Max Blancardi (Motor/Malucelli.) As for the gentlemen drivers in the Coppa Shell, victory went to the Sweden Magnus Frodig (Formula Automobile) followed home by Hungary’s Tibor Valint (Warm Up) and the Frenchman Yannick Mallegol (Motor/Piacenza)



Classification

Trofeo Pirelli Europe
Baron 70
Pergl 65
Misslin 64

Coppa Shell Europe
Bachelier Mallegol 70
Valint 67
Frodig 55

The European series of the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli will be back on track on the refurbished Imola circuit on the weekend of 17 May, as part of the Ferrari Racing Days, an event which will also feature the Italian series of the one-make championship and the single-seaters prepared by the F1 Clienti Department of Maranello.

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