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02 September 2001 Danish Grand Prix Jyllands Ringen At the start of the final for round 7 it was Jesper Sylvest who led in his Citroën Xsara from Casper Elgaard, Carsten Leveau, Martin Jensen and Gunnar Kristensen. The best opening lap however was made by Lauridsen who climbed from tenth to fourth place. On lap two he went by teammate Leveau, and one lap later there was contact between Lauridsen and Elgaard, who along with Jensen also got a stop-and-go penalty for a jumped start. Lauridsen now closed the gap to Sylvest, and on lap five he went past him into the lead. Further down the field Jason Watt and Michael Carlsen were making up lost ground, Watt being 10th and Carlsen 17th at the start of lap two. With his 80 kg ballast it was more difficult for Carlsen to progress, while Watt was finding things more easy with 40 kg in his Peugeot 306 GTI. At the start of lap five he was up into fourth place, and he now demoted Michael Schröter and then Jesper Sylvest, the pair swopping positions later on. Another driver on the move was Julian Westwood, who had shown his potential during the wet morning warm up. In his yellow Renault Megane Estate the Welshman had fought his way up to fourth place, but as he had been a bit rough on Volvo driver Jens Andersen in the process, he was handed a 10 sec penalty, which eventually dropped him to seventh. At the front Watt was closing the gap to Lauridsen, but never made any attempts to pass him. “Running closely behind Kent Bo, I had virtually no vision, and risking 15 points would really be stupid, as I had seen in the qualication race what could happen. So I opted to play safe,” Watt said after the race. Michael Schröter took third place behind race-winner Lauridsen and Watt, while Michael Carlsen’s hard earned fourth place gave him a lead of five points to Watt before the final round of the Danish Touringcar Championship, which will take place on October 7th. Results summary: |
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