Third 2000 CUP, The Netherlands

Date 28-05-2000
Club: Purmerend
Track condition: Heavy rain and stormy weather
Track surface: Artificial grass (wet)
Temperature 17 degrees Celsius
Contenders: 15

Storms and heavy shower rain was blessing the Dutch country. The track was wet but drivable thanks to the artificial grass. Only 15 contenders but all very dedicated to drive the whole day despite the weather..

After 4 qualification rounds the weather started to turn very bad.
Just before the start of the first 1/2 final a huge tree collapsed beside the place where a marshal should have done his duty during racing.
The race was immediately canceled and all result achieved by qualification were counted as the final result for the race day.

Placing after 4 times 5 minutes qualification rounds where best two are added to count for final placing

  Driver Best time Second time Total time Car Engine
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15		 Rene van Schaijk
Johan van Helmond
Jacco Koch
Wouter Bouwens
Michel Siethoff
Iwan Latev
Henk Sieben
Jeroen Vonk
Michel Kuipers
Ted Niesink
Remco Welp
Alfred Meinema
Eric Verhalle
Fred Maas
Fred Waasdorp		 14 5.08.86
14 5.12.88
14 5.16.30
13 5.02.30
13 5.07.23
13 5.11.20
13 5.15.16
13 5.22.29
13 5.25.13
13 5.18.75
12 5.15.88
12 5.22.34
11 5.07.53
11 5.19.91
10 5.17.67		 14 5.11.14
14 5.15.94
14 5.17.98
13 5.10.55
13 5.11.09
13 5.11.35
13 5.18.39
12 5.01.96
12 5.24.05
11 5.01.12
12 5.23.66
11 5.13.89
11 5.32.24
11 5.29.10
10 5.18.87		 28 10.20.00
28 10.28.82
28 10.34.28
26 10.12.85
26 10.18.32
26 10.22.55
26 10.33.55
25 10.24.25
25 10.49.18
24 10.19.87
24 10.39.54
23 10.36.23
22 10.39.77
22 10.49.01
20 10.36.54		 Mugen MBX-4RR
Bergonzoni Flash 99
Kyosho MP-6
Kyosho MP-6
Mugen MBX-4
Kyosho MP-5
Kyosho MP-5
Mugen MBX-4
Mugen MBX-4
Bergonzoni Flash 99
Crono S6 light
Kyosho MP-6
Kyosho MP-5
Kyosho MP-6
Kyosho MP-6		 R&B
Nova Rossi
R&B
Picco
Nova Rossi
Picco
R&B
R&B
R&B
Picco
R&B
R&B
Nova Rossi
R&B
Mega

Rene van Schaijk was doing his first race with his new Mugen MBX-4RR and was very pleased with the performance.
You would suspect that in dry conditions the cars would be quicker! Nothing of that at all. In the rain they achieved almost the same lap times as in dry weather with Hobao min pin tires. This is a big plus for racing on artificial grass.

Report made by Paco Raap