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Anatoly Khavalkin (Parolin / TM Racing) won after proving to be the driver capable of making fewer mistakes in the decisive races of the last day of the WSK Champions Cup. After the commanding victory of the pre-final, however, the Parolin Racing driver came under threat by Gerasim Skulanov in the Final (IPK / TM Racing) who also took the lead of the race after an amazing comeback. Rashid Al Dhaheri (Parolin / TM Racing) snatches a good result in a weekend not at the top by stepping on the podium in third ahead of Dmitry Matveev (Energy Corse / TM Racing) who won the Pre Final but started off poorly from the front row in the race the mattered.
Prefinals: Dmitry Matveev and Anatoly Khavalkin win, Maciej Gladysz wastes the Pole
After being almost perfect for the whole weekend, Maciej Gladysz (Parolin / TM Racing) takes his first misstep, if we can say so, on the last day when he lost the lead of the Pre Final A in favor of the Energy Corse duo formed by Dmitry Matveev and German Fotveev. Even worse than him does Peter Bouzinelos (KR / IAME) who threw away the third position obtained after a convincing weekend to the point of not being able to qualify for the Final. Oleksandr Bondarev (Tony Kart / TM Racing) moved from eighth to fourth position while Kean Nakamura Berta (KR / IAME) confirms ninth place after climbing up to fifth.
In the Pre Final B, Rashid Al Dhaheri was all over his team mate Anatoly Khavalkin already at the first corner, but he soon got stuck in a close fight with Jan Przyrowsky (Parolin / TM Racing), Yuanpu Cui (Tony Kart / TM Racing) and Yaroslav Trukhin (Energy Corse / TMRacing). Khavalkin managed to pull away from the group and went on to win with a 4-second lead on Przyrowsky, who prevailed over Cui in the fight for third place. Behind, Rene Lammers (Parolin / TM Racing) of Baby Race got very close to Al Dhaheri, who finished fourth, while Trukhin finished sixth behind the Emirati driver and the Dutchman.
In the final, Skulanov takes the lead and gets close to victory
Departing Dmitry Matveev is paraded by Jan Przyrowsky, Yuanpu Cui and Rashid Al Dhaheri who line up behind Anatoly Khavalkin, perfect at the start. Gerasim Skulanov, from the 13th spot, leaps to seventh position behind the other Energy Corse standard bearer, German Foteev.
Behind Khavalkin, who began to pull a gap unchallenged, Cui, Al Dhaheri, Matveev, and Skulanov exchanged positions several times. The Chinese driver under the Gamoto team moved to second place, followed by Matveev and Skulanov who, however, showed the fastest pace among all: he got past Cui, who in the meantime ended up behind Matveev, then the latter and, finally, managed to reach the leader showing a pace of half a second better than that of Khavalkin.
After marking the best lap, Gerasim Skulanov took the lead on the penultimate lap and almost left Anatoly Khavalkin on the spot, but a mistake at the exit of the last corner, as he was about to begin the last lap, ruined everything: Khavalkin took the lead again, while Skulanov could only settle for the second step of the podium in front of Rashid Al Dhaheri and Dmitry Matveev, while Yuanpu Cui slipped out of the top ten. Maciej Gladysz, after dominating on Friday and Saturday, finished sixth in front of compatriot Jan Przyrowsky.
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