CAS Race Report - St Jean d'Angely

Round 7 of the World Championship – St Jean d’Angely, France – 15 June 2008

It could have been a whole heap worse but Billy MacKenzie was injured during the first lap of qualifying at St Jean d’Angely this weekend. It was first thought that he may have temporarily dislocated his shoulder but it has been confirmed today, back in Belgium, that he has a slight hairline crack in his shoulder. The good new is that as it is not too serious, and he will be fit for the German GP.

Meanwhile team-mate Mike Brown soldiered on for the CAS Team and gated well in both races. In the first race his made a couple of mistakes and slipped back eventually to 12th. The track was so fast that a small mistake meant losing a position or two. He was out of the gate again in the second race, dropped a few positions until mid race when he sat comfortably in 10th place, which is where he finished.


With Billy not able to score points in either race this now puts him down to 8th overall in the World Championship. Mike is currently running in 12th place overall.


This was not a GP to remember, however the Team now have the German GP to focus on and much work to do until that weekend.


Team Manager Neil Prince said ‘I am gutted for Billy, he hit his head hard when he crashed and it took him 12 minutes to get back to the pits. Knowing Billy he will be raring to go in Teutschenthal’.


As expected Billy didn’t have much to say other than ‘I’m nothing more than gutted, everything was going perfect til then’.

Mike’s weekend could also have been better, and he felt that with his good starts he really should have finished in the top 5.


Results:

Race 1

1st S Pourcel, 2nd J Coppins, 3rd J Barragan, 4th T Leok, 5th M Nagl, 6th K DeDycker

Race 2

1st S Pourcel, 2nd J Coppins, 3rd S Ramon, 4th M DeReuver, 5th S Boniface, 6th J Barragan

Overall on the day

1st S Pourcel, 2nd J Coppins, 3rd J Barragan

Championship positions to date:

1st D Philippaerts 231 points, 2nd S Ramon 225 points, 3rd J Coppins 212 points, 4th S Pourcel 201 points, 5th D DeDycker 200 points, 6th J Barragan 185 points