Successful defender: Jiří Mičánek finishes 2nd in Náměst as he secures a valuable achievement in doing a lap in under one minute
Jiří Mičánek jr. Took two 2nd places in the second round of the Czech hill-climbing championship. The Mičánek Motorsport powered by Buggyra driver, and a team manager defended his last year’s position in Group 2 and for the first time, he managed the beat the legendary track with a lap time under one minute.
Jiří Mičánek jr. leaves the traditional hill-climbing event in Náměsti nad Oslavou with a valuable achievement and a great result. In five heats, he managed to finish 2nd in four of them, and he won the remaining one. After the second round of the hill-climbing championship, the Mičánek Motorsport powered by Buggyra driver remains in the lead of Group 2.
“For us, it’s a great result overall, because hill-climbing is not our primary discipline,” says the driver and a team manager in one person. And he especially highlights the first heat on Sunday, in which he finished 1st, 0.016s under the symbolic boundary of one minute. He improved his maximum from his last year’s debut there, and confirmed, that the team’s Lamborghini Huracán Super Trofeo in its new specification EVO 2 has a better potential than before.
He also values Saturday’s result, which the drivers had to do in a single run. The event faced complications following rain in qualifying, and an accident at the beginning of the race, which left damaged a power line pole. Repairing that damage forced a suspension of the race for 3 hours.
On Sunday, the drivers faced a different schedule, with three heats, with only the two best results counting towards the results. “The first run on Sunday, everything went perfectly there, it was the best drive, with fresh tyres and no mistakes. I knew that it’s going to be a very fast time, but I was especially ecstatic that we beat the one minute,” describes Jiří Mičánek. Together with Marek Rybníček, the fastest driver of Group 2, they were the only drivers with touring cars to be in the overall TOP 8, which is usually reserved for single-seaters.
The Czech hill-climbing championship continues in two weeks, with a legendary Ecce Homo in mo ve Šternberk. However, the Mičánek Motorsport powered by Buggyra team will be returning in the next race, which is just as legendary. The “Orlickoústecká 21” at June 11-12. “Still, hill-climbing is just a bonus and circuit racing is still our priority. I was looking forward to the “21” last year, but it was cancelled in the end. This year, we go there with a goal to be in the best positions in our class and the overall standings as well,“ says Jiří Mičánek.
