Aditya wins Scirocco Cup race in Germany

Sep 19, 2011 - C. Santhosh kumar |

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Aditya Patel made most of his reverse grid pole position to win the Scirocco R-cup at Oschersleben in Germany on Sunday.

After a disappointing qualifying session, Aditya started the opening race from seventh and fought a hard battle with Turkish driver Berke Bayindir before being passed by Guest driver Daniel La Rosa and championship rival Daniel Lloyd with just three laps to go.

However, as Aditya’s luck would have it, an eighth-place finish put him on pole for Sunday’s race.

Although not very satisfied with his pace on Saturday’s race, Aditya was confident that Sunday would be a different story.

Aditya, after a fairly good start, held his place till turn three where Lloyd made a brilliant pass to take the lead but even before the lap ended, Aditya grabbed the lead back from Lloyd.

“It was a nail-biting race. I can’t remember the last time I fought for the lead like that. Moritz drove fair and brilliantly as well. I have to admit that there was a lot of luck involved. Ola Nilsson and Lloyd had an unfortunate incident which went in my favor. I’m ecstatic and extremely grateful to all my sponsors Now with one race to go, my aim is to finish in the top three of the championship,” he concluded.

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