Scott takes win record with 12
JEREZ (E) OCTOBER 7-8
ROUND 7/8
ANOTHER EUROFORMULA OPEN weekend, and another dominant double win for Harrison Scott.
The RP Motorsport driver arrived at Jerez with the 2017 title already in the bag, but had his sights on the championship’s 11-race-wins record – held by Sandy Stuvik since 2014.
On Saturday, Scott secured a 10th pole of the season, and easily fended off a challenge from Devlin Defrancesco at Turn 1. Scott shot off to a one-second lead but lost that before the first lap was over as Thiago Vivacqua and Lodovico Laurini collided at Turn 9, putting them both out in the gravel and triggering a safety car.
After the restart, Scott methodically built up another gap over Carlin-run Canadian Defrancesco and Drivex School’s Nikita Troitskiy. But that lead was erased again when Daniel Lu and Petru Florescu clashed going through the long fast left of Turn 8, forcing Lu out.
Scott mastered the restart, and went on to win by 2.3s. Ameya Vaidyanathan fended off Jannes Fittje for fourth.
“It was really tough,” Scott said afterwards. “The car was moving a lot and it’s so easy to make a mistake. But we had strong pace and to get the win was brilliant.”
It was the same story one day later, but with it came history. Scott was simply unstoppable from an 11th pole of the season and he stormed clear of the pack to take his 12th win by 6.7s over Troitskiy and Defrancesco.
1 Harrison Scott 20 laps in 35m35.501s; 2 Devlin Defrancesco +2.300s; 3 Nikita Troitskiy; 4 Ameya Vaidyanathan; 5 Jannes Fittje; 6 Simo Laaksonen. 1 Scott 18 laps in 29m17.465s; 2 Troitskiy +6.657s; 3 Defrancesco; 4 Fittje; 5 Eliseo Martinez Merono; 6 Laaksonen. 1 Scott 340; 2 Troitskiy 191; 3 Fittje 137; 4 Defrancesco 132; 5 Vaidyanathan 131; 6 Laaksonen 88.