{"id":64,"date":"2009-07-19T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/?p=64"},"modified":"2009-07-19T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:41:28","slug":"dimitri-enjalbert-boutsen-energy-racing-takes-his-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/dimitri-enjalbert-boutsen-energy-racing-takes-his-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitri Enjalbert (Boutsen Energy Racing) takes his revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-content\/gallery\/dimitri\/600_03109805_437_enjalbert_tcm2-109557.jpg\" alt=\"MOTORSPORT\/WSR MANS 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forgotten the misfortunes of yesterday for Dimitri Enjalbert (Boutsen Energy Racing),<br \/>\nas he drove from pole position to take his fifth win of the season. The Frenchman<br \/>\nfinishes ahead of Jonathan Hirschi (TDS Racing), Fabrice Walfisch (Team Lompech<br \/>\nSport) and Mike Verschuur (McGregor by Equipe Verschuur). The positions in the<br \/>\noverall standings shift again before the holiday, with Hirschi reclaiming the lead by a<br \/>\nsingle point.<\/p>\n<p>With the technical issues encountered on Saturday resolved, pole-sitter Dimitri Enjalbert could<br \/>\nget behind the wheel in the right frame of mind to take his revenge on fate. Despite the ambitions<br \/>\nof Jonathan Hirschi and Jean-Philippe Madonia (TDS Racing), Dimitri Enjalbert led into turn one,<br \/>\nahead of the two New M\u00e9gane Trophy\u2019s flying TDS Racing colours, Madonia second ahead of<br \/>\nHirschi. But the Swiss driver overtook his team-mate before the end of lap 1. From his 16th<br \/>\nposition on the grid, Mike Verschuur was already up to 8th place, helped by a coming together<br \/>\nbetween Mathieu Cheruy (Tech 1 Racing), Antony Tardieu (Tech 1 Racing), Wim Beelen (Equipe<br \/>\nVerschuur) and David Dermont (Boutsen Energy Racing) right at the start of the race.<br \/>\nNick Catsburg (Tech 1 Racing) also got off to a good start. The Dutch driver moved past Pierre<br \/>\nThiriet (TDS Racing) into 5th place. Thiriet tried to get his own back straight away and hit<br \/>\nCatsburg. Thiriet picked up a drive-through penalty for his pains.<\/p>\n<p>This was good for Dimitri Enjalbert of course, and the Parisian driver was able to open up a lead,<br \/>\ndespite the show of resistance from TDS Racing. Back in fourth place, Fabrice Walfisch (Team<br \/>\nLompech Sport) was but a few car\u2019s lengths ahead of Hoevert Vos (Equipe Verschuur) and Mike<br \/>\nVerschuur (McGregor by Equipe Verschuur). Mike Verschuur got the better of his countryman, so<br \/>\nthe Eurocup M\u00e9gane Trophy leader was in 5th before the round of refuelling started.<br \/>\nFront runner Dimitri Enjalbert was first to pit. Jonathan Hirschi, Jean-Philippe Madonia and<br \/>\nFabrice Walfisch followed suit. Mike Verschuur waited until the last moment. Not surprisingly,<br \/>\nDimitri Enjalbert was still in the lead ahead of Jonathan Hirschi after the spate of refuelling stops.<br \/>\nThe ones to benefit were Fabrice Walfisch and Mike Verschuur, who came back out ahead of<br \/>\nJean-Philippe Madonia.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitri Enjalbert stayed focused to the finish, thereby effectively erasing Saturday\u2019s retirement<br \/>\nincident and driving to his fifth win of the season. Finishing in second place, Jonathan Hirschi was<br \/>\nrewarded for his efforts by repossessing the lead in the overall standings, just one point ahead of<br \/>\nMike Verschuur, who finished fourth today. The third podium place went to Fabrice Walfisch, for<br \/>\nthe second time this season. In the Gentlemen Drivers category, Jean-Philippe Madonia had<br \/>\nanother successful day, finishing fifth overall and first in his class for the sixth time this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote, unquote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dimitri Enjalbert:<\/strong> \u201cI was very frustrated at having to retire before the start yesterday. Today,<br \/>\neverything worked fine. The hardest moment of the race was the start. It\u2019s always an incredible<br \/>\nfeeling to win in front of my family and friends. This will be a great memory for me.\u201d<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-content\/gallery\/dimitri\/600_03109805_495_enjalbert_tcm2-109970.jpg\" alt=\"MOTORSPORT\/WSR MANS 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-content\/gallery\/dimitri\/600_03109805_411_enjalbert_tcm2-108636.jpg\" alt=\"MOTORSPORT\/WSR MANS 2009\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten the misfortunes of yesterday for Dimitri Enjalbert (Boutsen Energy Racing), as he drove from pole position to take his fifth win of the season. The Frenchman finishes ahead of Jonathan Hirschi (TDS Racing), Fabrice Walfisch (Team Lompech Sport) and Mike Verschuur (McGregor by Equipe Verschuur). The positions in the overall standings shift again before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dimitri-enjalbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trpscale.com\/miniz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}