2017 BOSS GP Round 4, Race 1

The Round 4, Race 1 of the 2016 Boss GP Series was held at Zolder on July 15.

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18 years young, but very ambitious – this is Indian driver Mahaveer Raghunathan (PS Racing by Coloni Motorsport). Starting from overall position 3 (FORMULA and OPEN class cars start in one grid), Raghunathan showed a strong performance over 16 laps with his Lola Auto GP Gibson Tech 3.4 V8 and a great battle with Salvatore De Plano (MM International Motorsport) with his Dallara GP2 Mecachrome 4.0 V8. At the end it was a neck-to-neck-finish, with De Plano just finishing 2,719 seconds behind Raghunathan at the overall race-time. The best lap time at the FORMULA class was performed by De Plano in 1:22,229 min, while Raghunathan raced his best lap in 1:22,447.

Finishing first meant the first ever P1 for Raghunathan at a BOSS GP race – the young driver was more than pleased with his victory. Overall the Indian has a great outcome this season – seven races, seven podiums (1x P1, 2x P2, 4x P3). Meanwhile De Plano secured his second P2 of the season, his fourth overall season podium (2x P2, 2x P3).

Not even a penalty of 30 seconds for Mangini, due to overtaking under yellow flag, would disturb the good mood; the penalty didn’t change the final result anyway.

Only nine drivers started this race, with six of them finishing.


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Trivia

 * The race personnel are Bobbe Veldkamp (race director) and Floortje Snoek (timekeeper).