First Race
360 Racing dominated the Radical Challenge podium at Rockingham last weekend. As well as having two wins, Jerome De Sadeleer also secured a third-placed finish behind team mate Mark Richards.
De Sadeleer had been the fastest qualifier for the Silverstone based team, in third, with Richards seventh and Jason Rishover ninth.
But as the lights went out De Sadeleer settled into third place behind title contenders Burgess and Jackson, while Rishover also started strongly in fifth.
Richards had also hoped to challenge, but a poor start left him with a fightback. “I just spun the wheels and lost loads of places,” he explained.
De Sadeleer held a steady gap to the lead pair, which paid dividends just before the pitstop window opened. “I had been pushing until all three of us got track limit warnings, but then I got inside Jackson at Deene and he spun.”
The stops soon followed and De Sadeleer went in second and emerged with the lead.
Although Rishover had lost one place to Marateotto early on, he continued in sixth until his stop. But shortly afterwards Elliot Goodman spun in front of him, and after T-boning he was hit from behind by Macleod and was out of the race.
Richards had also worked his way up to ninth as the stops began, but elected to stay out before finally pitting from third.
Back at the front De Sadeleer had it under control and cruised to victory by over 10 seconds, with his second win of the season. "I didn’t have a success penalty at the stop so didn’t have to push too hard to create the gap.”
Richards also continued his progress during the second half of the race and finally clinched sixth on the last lap, after Macleod was given a stop and go penalty.
