| Round
4 – World Series by Renault, Misano
Circuit, Italy
Sean McIntosh, #6 Team KTR, Race 2 –
Qualified: 7th / Finished: 10th (1Point)
Sean McIntosh was left to rue what might
have been today as he salvaged a championship point from today’s 29-lap World
Series by Renault race at Misano having spun himself early in the
proceedings. The 21-year-old Canadian,
looking to rebound from yesterday’s DNF where he was taken out of the race with 3 laps to go by Davide Valsecchi, was
looking strong in the early stages having climbed into the top-five ahead of
his mandatory pit-stop but eventually crossed the line tenth, the final points
paying position, following his error at Turn 13.
Race
2, Qualifying (Pole – Sebastian Vettel, 1m18.784s)
An early candidate for provisional pole,
the KTR racer trailed only Andy Soucek in the first-half of the session. Sean’s best lap, a 1m19.470s, was the fourth
fastest in the group, just sixth tenths off of outright pole winner Sebastian
Vettel while setting the Vancouver-native up with a seventh place grid slot –
his second best of the season following yesterday’s sixth.
Race 2, 29 Laps (Winner – Sebastian Vettel, Carlin
Motorsport)
Up to fifth at the start, Sean was called to pit-lane for
his mandatory stop at the end of lap six. It was on his second flying lap following the
pit-stop that Sean caught himself out at Turn 13, spinning the #6 KTR entry while
losing valuable track time and position.
He quickly regrouped but the damage had been done as Misano’s tight and
twisty configuration made passing hard.
Limiting the damage, Sean successfully clawed back a couple of places to
break into the top-ten and the final points at the checkered flag.
Sean McIntosh - #6
Team KTR:
“It’s frustrating to come away from the weekend with just
one point when it should have been a lot more.
Yesterday someone else took me out from what would have been a
comfortable top-six finish and today I did it myself. We’ll move on from here, we made progress
with the car set-up and that showed in qualifying. We have to move up onto the front two-rows
now to maximize our chances of getting that first podium.”
The World Series by Renault heads to Spa, Belgium
for Round 5, 28th-29th July.
ENDS – www.seanmcintosh.com
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