Estoril: sprintrace result
Published on 30 October 2005 by Thorsten Hendriks
Jos Verstappen has finished the sprintrace in fourth position. That will be his position on the grid for the feature race. The sprintrace was won by France, followed by Brazil and Switzerland.
Jos had an excellent start and was third for a short time. At the back of the field some cars collided. Jos managed to keep the Czech car behind him to take fourth.
"I went through the first corner without any problems, which is a good thing in itself. I had to work had to keep my fourth position during the race, my car was troubled by understeer. Something that didn't occur this weekend, Graham Taylor and I will have to look at the telemetrie to find the cause before the feature race. We are making progress. I am not going to make any comment on the feature race, anything can happen. I have a good perspectives now I am starting from fourth."
Thorsten Hendriks
Country Time difference difference to first to previous 1 FRANCE 26:13.366 - - 2 BRAZIL 26:16.204 + 2.838 + 2.838 3 SWITZERLAND 26:17.025 + 3.659 + 0.821 4 NETHERLANDS 26:26.669 + 13.303 + 9.644 5 CZECH REPUBLIC 26:27.006 + 13.640 + 0.337 6 PORTUGAL 26:31.776 + 18.410 + 4.770 7 CANADA 26:34.277 + 20.911 + 2.501 8 MALAYSIA 26:43.837 + 30.471 + 9.560 9 INDONESIA 26:49.032 + 35.666 + 5.195 10 SOUTH AFRICA 26:51.120 + 37.754 + 2.088 11 ITALY 26:52.278 + 38.912 + 1.158 12 GERMANY 26:54.267 + 40.901 + 1.989 13 USA 26:54.842 + 41.476 + 0.575 14 NEW ZEALAND 26:55.408 + 42.042 + 0.566 15 RUSSIA 27:03.597 + 50.231 + 8.189 16 AUSTRIA 27:17.983 +1'04.617 +14.386 17 INDIA 27:19.757 +1'06.391 + 1.774 18 LEBANON 27:27.169 +1'13.803 + 7.412 19 IRELAND 26:58.629 1 Lap 1 Lap 20 GREAT BRITAIN 8:00.265 12 Laps 11 Laps 21 CHINA 2:13.160 16 Laps 4 Laps
Thorsten Hendriks