Photo: Nordic 4
STEP Motorsport’s Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen put one hand on the Nordic 4 title by winning all three races in the penultimate round at Padborg Park.
Jakobsen was beaten to top spot in practice by Magnus Pedersen, who went fastest by 0.227 seconds, then in qualifying Mads Hoe took his self-run Formula 5 car to pole. He set a 1m00.035s to lead STEP’s Gustaw Wisniewski by 0.317s.
Wisniewski’s team-mates Jakobsen, Sebastian Bach and Laerke Ronn Sorensen were a further 0.021s, 0.061s and 0.083s behind respectively.
In race one Wisniewski immediately picked up a drive-through penalty for jumping the start, but he did not serve it and it was converted into a 10s penalty. To overcome the penalty he therefore needed to clear Jakobsen, as both of them had got past Hoe, but was unable to and finished 0.499s behind him. That dropped him to sixth in the final results, with Hoe and Pedersen completing the podium.
Team FSP’s Alexa Danielsson had reversed-grid pole for race two but stopped on the formation lap. She eventually got going again without assistance, and took her place at the front.
At the start she did enough to keep the lead into turn one, as her team-mates struck trouble. Marius Kristiansen spun following contact with Jakobsen exiting turn two, and Mads Kjeldtoft Ljungberg stopped on track.
Sorensen ran in second, and the safety car led the field through lap two. On the restart Sorensen dived to Danielsson’s inside, leaving space for Jakobsen to get into second before then passing Sorensen for the lead. He immediately pulled away and never looked back.
Hoe passed Danielsson for third on lap seven, and Bach went past a lap later. A few corners after that Hoe crashed out, and yellow flags waved. Danielsson continued to lose ground, while Bach pursued Sorensen. He pressured her into a lock-up at turn one on the penultimate lap and seized the position.
Jakobsen and Bach shared the race three front row, and despite a lot of wheelspin Jakobsen led into turn one as Bach had an even worse start. Sorensen spun at turn one, blocking Ljungberg’s path, and Pedersen took second.
He initially created a gap, while unable to match Jakobsen, but by lap five he was under pressure from Bach and Wisniewski. Bach got ahead at turn two on lap seven, then a queue formed behind Pedersen.
Wisniewski ran alonside him at the start of lap 12 but could not get through. An aggressive move on the last corner of lap 14 broke Pedersen’s defences, and behind them Hoe just held off Louis Leveau.
Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics]
Race 1 (16 laps)
1 Mathias Bjerre Jakobsen STEP Motorsport 16m31.561s
2 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +1.417s
3 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +3.085s
4 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +9.205s
5 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +10.475s
6 Gustaw Wisniewski STEP Motorsport +0.499s
7 Laerke Ronn Sorensen STEP Motorsport +12.699s
8 Alexia Danielsson Team FSP +18.376s
9 Mads Kjeldtoft Ljungberg Team FSP +21.724s
10 Louis Leveau +28.809s
Pole: Hoe, 1m00.035s
Fastest lap: Pedersen, 1m00.157s
Race 2 (15 laps)
1 Jakobsen 16m20.039s
2 Bach +6.022s
3 Sorensen +7.755s
4 Pedersen +9.465s
5 Danielsson +9.866s
6 Wisniewski +12.245s
7 Mads Kjelde Larsen Mads Hoe Motorsport +22.848s
8 Leveau +23.927s
9 Jorgen Leerskov Leerskov Racing +24.494s
10 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +29.399s
FL: Kristansen, 1m00.926s
Race 3 (16 laps)
1 Jakobsen 16m27.032s
2 Bach +12.004s
3 Wisniewski +17.332s
4 Pedersen +19.983s
5 Mads Hoe +22.241s
6 Leveau +22.810s
7 Kristiansen +25.542s
8 Danielsson +25.756s
9 Sorensen +39.883s
10 Larsen +43.362s
FL: Jakobsen, 1m00.074s
Championship standings
1 Jakobsen 337 2 Mads Hoe 281 3 Pedersen 247 4 Bach 223 5 Kristiansen 185 6 Leveau 135 7 Sorensen 115 8 Wisniewski 84 9 Larsen 60 10 Danielsson 45