17/08/2025
🇩🇰🇸🇪 Nordic Aquila Formula 1000 Series 🇸🇪🇩🇰
Round 6 - Ring Djursland - Race Day 2
Sunday proved to be no respite for our young racing driver as misfortune continued to hound Deven, leaving him wondering what it is he has to do to catch a break.
Race 2 | P11 —> P15
The starting light procedure malfunctioned, restarting after a single red light had already been lit up. This caused 2 cars to false start, but the rest of the field got away cleanly. Deven got a good start, was up a position and gaining on those ahead coming out of turn 1. However, race control decided to do a complete restart and red flagged the race. As the P8 car came over the crest into turn 2 he reacted and hit the brakes. All the cars behind were still racing full on, unsighted. P9 ahead of Deven slammed into P8, and Deven slammed into P9. P11 behind then smacked Deven from the rear, spinning him around and sending him into the grass sideways into a huge iron beam, that cracked his front left wheel. Race effectively over. Deven took the restart, but came immediately into the pits, and had his wheel changed. He was 3 laps down when he rejoined the race.
Race 3 | P11 —> P9
A race of attrition. Everyone was going for it in the final race of the weekend. Good start keeping position and after few laps of racing, found himself in a scrap for what would have been P8. Spun in turn 2 when taken by surprise by some defensive early braking, but managed to salvage P9 with some good pace after the incident.
Overall an extremely challenging weekend where mechanical issues, continued misfortune, and not quite finding the front running pace contributed to disappointing results. Now a long pause before the final round in late September in Falkenberg. Time to reflect and recharge before going out for the last race of the season.
