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2019-09-30
AFR Round 4 Sepang: Clean Sweep for BAR/OLOI with Hat Trick Wins for Alders, Triple Podiums for Tavartkiladze; Alders and Hong win Eurocup Tests
-Joey Alders sets new track record, takes pole and all three wins
-Sandro Tavartkiladze takes triple podiums
-Alders and Stephen Hong win Formula Renault Rookie Tests
Sepang International F1 Circuit–
This weekend, Asia Formula Renault returned to the famous Sepang International F1 Circuit for another triple header weekend, for Round 4 of the five round, 13 race 2019 AFR Championship. BlackArts Racing featured its season drivers Joey Alders [Netherlands], Stephen Hong [China] and Sandro Tavartkiladze [Republic of Georgia]. It was a busy weekend for the Zhuhai and Sepang-based BlackArts Racing team, who was also competing this weekend in Asian F3 and FIA China F4 at the Shanghai F1 Circuit in China.
In Sepang AFR, Joey Alders in the OLOI Powered by BAR car got off to an incredible start to Round 4 by setting a new lap record for Asia Formula Renault during Friday morning’s official practice, with a laptime of 2.02.4.
In qualifying on Friday afternoon, Alders dominated pole for Race One by almost a full second, as well as taking the Race Two pole position. Teammates Sandro Tavartkiladze and Stephen Hong took 4th and 5th, respectively, for the starting grids of Race One and Race Two.
Saturday’s races were both performed under safety car starts due to a starting light issue. Race One was held on Saturday morning under hot dry conditions, with Alders taking a commanding flag to flag win in the OLOI Powered by BAR car by a full 15 seconds. Sandro Tavartkiladze joined him on the podium in 3rd while Stephen Hong took 5th. Race Two, again under hot and sunny conditions, saw Alders taking another flag to flag win while Tavartkiladze joined him once again on the podium in 3rd after an incredible drive, with Sandro on used tires passing PS Racing’s Elias Niskanen who was on new slicks, for P3 towards the end of the race, while Stephen Hong finished 5th.
Sunday’s Race Three featured a standing start once again under good weather. Alders started on pole after his Race One and Two successes, taking the lead into T1 at the start, opening a solid gap on the field for yet another flag to flag finish, while Sandro Tavartkiladze took to the podium again in 3rd to earn himself a triple podium weekend, while Stephen Hong finished 5th.
Thanks to the points earned this weekend, Joey Alders and Stephen Hong both won Formula Renault Rookie Test awards in the new FR/19 car on October 28th in Abu Dhabi, sponsored by Renault Sport. It was also a weekend of new benchmark success with Alders taking his first clean sweep AFR weekend, and Tavartkiladze taking podiums for all the weekend’s races for the first time.
The final round of the exciting 2019 Asia Formula Renault Championship will take place at Zhuhai International Circuit on December 7th-8th, in another triple header race weekend. Joey Alders will be looking to take home the season Driver’s Champion trophy while Sandro Tavartkiladze will be looking to make up to his 10 point deficit to ART’s Bruno Carneiro to beat him for 2nd place in the Driver’s Points. points from Bruno Carneiro, while Stephen Hong looks to continue the climb up the pyramid from 5th. Meanwhile, BlackArts Racing will of course be looking to take its 5th consecutive Driver’s Championship and 4th Team Championship in Asia Formula Renault.
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2019 Asia Formula Renault Championship Schedule:
Rnd 1 – March 23-24 - Zhuhai International Circuit, China
Rnd 2 – May 25-26- Zhuhai International Circuit, China
Rnd 3 – August 24-25- Sepang International F1 Circuit, Malaysia
Rnd 4 – September-28-29- Sepang International F1 Circuit, Malaysia
Rnd 5 – December 7-8, 2019 – Zhuhai International Circuit, China