| Round
3 – World Series by Renault, Istanbul
Park, Turkey
Sean McIntosh, #6 Team KTR, Race 2 –
Qualified: 13th / Finished: 6th (5 points)
Sean McIntosh backed up his maiden World
Series by Renault points scoring run to fourth place in yesterday’s opener at
Istanbul Park with another strong top-ten performance today as the Canadian
claimed sixth at the end of the 23-lap Turkish charge. Race
2, Qualifying (Pole – Pastor Maldonado, 1m39.530s)
Sean improved his qualifying slot by one
position from yesterday’s 14th place grid effort but once again the
pace in his Formula Renault 3.5 in Qualifying trim wasn’t as competitive as expected,
his best lap in the session a 1m40.444s around the 5.430km, 13 turn
facility. Unable to get the #6 KTR entry
to respond as he’d have liked to on a new set of Michelin tires, McIntosh’s
qualifying frustrations were off set by the speed he demonstrated during the
previous race.
Race 2, 23 Laps (Winner – Alvaro Parente, Victory
Engineering) Targeting another top-ten finish McIntosh picked up two
spots on the first lap before making his way to tenth prior to his mandatory
pit-stop. The team made an early call as
soon as the pit-lane was open at the end of lap five and a lightening stop by
Sean’s KTR crew fired the 21-year-old up into eighth once the 30-strong field
had cycled through. From there McIntosh found himself locked in a
pack of cars being held up, and blocked, by the slower, damaged car of eventual
runner-up Mikhail Aleshin. At one stage
Sean leapt to third in the closely running group but was unable to make the
position stick dropping back to fifth. He
looked good for the spot until getting caught while trying to take a position
by out braking the car ahead on one of the final corners, thereby providing a
late opportunity for James Rossiter to pass him on the final lap. McIntosh collected five more points to and
now sits 11th in the series.
Sean McIntosh - #6
Team KTR:
“I’m really pleased to come away from Turkey with a
good points haul. This is such a
competetive championship, as we’ve seen again this weekend, hundredths of a
second make a real difference in qualifying and while we struggled a little in
that department we showed we had front-running pace in the races.”
The World Series by Renault heads to Misano, Italy
for Round 4, 15th-16th July.
Points: 1st Garcia (34), 2nd Maldonado
(33), 3rd Salignon (30), =3rd Parente (30), 5th
Rossiter (24), *11th McINTOSH
(13)
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