Victory for Tuscher, podium for Gómez

Mathéo Tuscher won yet another race, this time at the final weekend of the 2011 Formula Pilota China Series, while team-mate Samín Gómez scored her first podium of the year. That brought our very successful season to a terrific close at the demanding 5.5km long Sepang GP circuit.

Qualification

It was dry and hot, and Mathéo and Matsushita kept up a steady fight for pole. For once it was Matsushita who claimed it on his very last lap. Mathéo was 2^nd and Samín managed a truly great performance with 4^th place in a field of 15.

Grid Race One
1^st	Nobuharu Matsushita (JPN)	2:06.297	Super License
2^nd	Mathéo Tuscher (CZ)	2:06.444	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing
3^rd	Dustin Sofyan (INAI)	2:06.729	Eurointernational
4^th	Samín Gómez (Ven)	2:07.051	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing

Race One

The start went well and Mathéo held 2^nd place behind Matsushita while Samín managed to outbrake Sofyan into the first corner to move into 3^rd. The order remained constant until the later stages of the race with Matsushita leading from Mathéo and Samín. Just a few laps before the end there were waved yellow flags, which closed up the field and slowed them all down. Samín started to come under pressure from Sofyan and Spavone, but she didn’t put a foot wrong, and came home to claim an excellent 3^rd place and her first podium of the year! Mathéo was very close to Matsushita and on the final lap managed to pass him in the very last corner, taking another fine win in the series.

Results Race One
1^st	Mathéo Tuscher (CZ)	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing	23:03.559
2^nd	Nobuharu Matsushita (JPN)	Super License	Gap	0.344
3^rd	Samín Gómez (VEN)	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing	Gap	1.490

Grid Race Two
1^st	Mathéo Tuscher (CZ)	2:07.381	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing
2^nd	Nobuharu Matsushita (JPN)	2:07.387	Super License
3^rd	Dustin Sofyan (INA)	2:08.131	Euro International
6^th	Samín Gómez (VEN)	2:08.699	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing

Race Two

Mathéo made the best out of his pole position to claim the lead while Samín got away cleanly but fell back to 6^th place in the first corner melee. The leaders ran very closely together for most of the race, making it very difficult to attack. Even so Matsushita took the risk just before the end, and in a counterpoint to Mathéo’s performance in the first race got past. With not enough time remaining Mathéo could not fight back, and so finished the race in excellent 2^nd. Samín again drove a great race and crossed the finish line in a very good 6^th place, thus rounding off a very successful first season in China/Asia for the team.

Results Race Two
1^st	Lorenzeo Camplese (I)	Super License	21:29.641
2^nd	Mathéo Tuscher (CZ)	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing	Gap	2.262
3^rd	Dustin Sofyan (INA)	Eurointernational	Gap	4.152
6^th	Samín Gómez (VEN)	Jenzer Welch Asia Racing

Championship final standings: 1^st Mathéo Tuscher (CZ), 189 Punkte; 2^nd Luis Sá Silva (ANG), 124 points; 3^rd Dustin Sofyan (INA), 117 points; 4^th Nobuharu Matsushita (JPN), 89 points; 5^th Tin Sritrai (THAI), 67 points; 6^th Chi Cong Li (CHIN), 65 points; 10^th Samín Gómez (VEN), 36 points

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