CAPPELLINI TAKES 4TH POLE IN 98 AT CORFU!
JONES AND GILLMAN ROUND OUT TOP 3 IN GREECE!
CORFU, GREECE -(July 11th)- 4-time
World Champion Guido Cappellini of Como, Italy captured his 4th
pole in 5 races and will lead the field for the 3rd Annual Grand
Prix of Corfu on the U.I.M. F1 World Championship tour of powerboating.
Cappellini, who needed just 10 total laps of qualifying to set the
pace with a time of 40.32 seconds around the 2 kilometer 3 pin course
for a speed of 169.64kph. The 38 year old driver is currently second
in the World Championship with 42 points and is looking for his
3rd win in 5 races this season.
Jonathan Jones of Cardigan, Wales captured the 2nd quickest time
of the day, with a 40.64 second lap and a speed of 168.30kph and
will begin from this spot for the 3rd time this season while looking
for his first win in 1998.
Defending World Champion Scott Gillman of Basalt, Colorado took
a well deserved 3rd position despite having a brand new boat, switching
from his American built Seebold hull to an Italian hulled DAC built
by his rival Cappellini. Gillman who holds the course record he
set here a year ago with a speed of 178.81kph after a 37.25 second
lap, wasít able to match these speeds today because of the
rough conditions on the back straight with numerous roller waves
crossing the course. The 38 year old driver is 1st in the World
Championship with 47 points.
Finnish pilot Perrti Leppala looking for his 2nd pole of the year,
could only do a 41.36 second lap and will start 4th. Young Italian
Francesco Cantando will start 5th with a 41.41, while Massimo Roggiero,
a past pole sitter here, will start 6th with a 41.53.
1992 World Champion Fabrizio Bocca was 7th quickest with a 42.01.
Swedish driver Goran Karlof coming off his first win on the circuit
in the last round in Finland was 8th fastest with a 42.62. Hungarian
driver Rudy Mihaldinez was 9th quickest but crashed heavily in the
2nd session and will miss tomorrows race. Italian Cipriano Lambri
will thus move up to 9th, while French driver Philippe Dessertenne
will round out the top 10 with a lap of 43.39 seconds.
Drivers from 10 different nations will take the flag tomorrow at
18:15 local time and 11:15 Eastern Daylight time for the 5th round
of the U.I.M. F1 World Championship in Garitsa Bay in Corfu, Greece
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