The Sunday double-header of the Clio Cup at Austria’s Red Bull Ring delivered intense door-to-door action – and the numbers tell just as compelling a story. From race performances to fastest laps and shifting race leads, here’s a breakdown of the weekend’s most interesting stats.
One race each: Bartlolomiej Mirecki and Tomáš Pekař split the wins
Leader of the Ring: Tomáš Pekař
Laps Led:
- Race 1: 7 laps
- Race 2: 9 laps
- Total: 16 laps led out of 26 in each race
Fastest on the Ring: Nikodem Sobczyk – Fastest race lap of the weekend
- 1:50.212 (Race 1, Lap 11)
The Battle for fastest lap
Race 1:
- 1:50.556 – Bartolomiej Mirecki (Lap 2)
- 1:50.485 – Julian Śmiechowski (Lap 6)
- 1:50.324 – Julian Śmiechowski (Lap 7)
- 1:50.212 – Nikodem Sobczyk (Lap 11) – Fastest lap of the race
Race 2:
- 1:52.040 – Tomáš Pekař (Lap 2)
- 1:51.926 – Filip Bartoš (Lap 8)
- 1:51.265 – Nico Wuest (Lap 9)
- 1:50.990 – Filip Bartoš (Lap 10)
- 1:50.939 – Nico Wuest (Lap 11)
- 1:50.372 – Tomáš Pekař (Lap 12)
- 1:50.360 – Filip Bartoš (Lap 13) – Fastest lap of the weekend
Who Led When?
Frequent lead changes kept spectators guessing:
Race 1:
- 5 lead changes – Pekař, Mirecki, Marszalkowski
- Pekař led the most – 7 laps
Race 2:
- 3 lead changes – Pekař, Śmiechowski
- Pekař led the most – 9 laps
Safety Car Makes a Cameo
- Race 1: No Safety Car intervention
- Race 2: Safety Car from 14:35:34 to 14:42:23 (6 minutes 49 seconds)
Once again, the Red Bull Ring proved to be the perfect backdrop for close, unpredictable Clio Cup racing.
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