Photo: Grippo
Mads Hoe took his own Formula 5 car to victory in all three Nordic Championship Formula races at Anderstorp.
Denmark’s Nordic 4 championship for Formula 4 and F5 cars combined with Sweden’s Formula Renault 1.6-based Formula Nordic to form a 21-car field, and Hoe’s experience put him ahead.
The 2021 Danish F4 champion set a 1m36.557s to beat Magnus Pedersen to pole by 0.139 seconds. Sebastian Bach and Viktor Snebjoern Poulsen also lapped sub-1m37s, with Anton Morsing the next best F5 car down in seventh. Melvin Kalousdian was FNordic’s fastest driver, but 1.371s off pole in eighth.
At the start of race one, Hoe’s car jolted moving off the line but he was still able to lead into the opening corner. Pedersen got alongside on the following straight, then took the inside to be leading before turn four.
He quickly built a gap to Hoe, but then on lap three a huge lunge at turn two put Hoe back ahead. Marius Kristiansen, who was fourth, went off and fell behind Poulsen. Next time by he locked up at turn two trying to regain lost ground, but soon reclaimed fourth as Poulsen went off. Jorgen Leerskov stopped at the side of the pit straight with severe damage that ruled him out of race two, but the safety car was not needed.
Kristiansen was pressuring Bach for third next, and on lap six went side-by-side through the turn four hairpin and completed a pass on the outside. Up front, Hoe had distanced himself from Pedersen, who on lap eight lost out to Kristiansen before they even reached turn two’s heavy braking zone. Pedersen attempted to get back past, and succeeded with his attempt at turn six. However Kristiansen moved into second again, and Pedersen had an off that left him a distant third.
There was also a last-lap swap for seventh, as George Sebastian Pavlopoulos went off and Casper Nissen got past. Kalousdian was FNordic winner in a lonely ninth.
Pavlopoulos had reversed-grid pole for race two, but in a dramatic opening lap fell down the order while Pedersen streaked into the lead and Hoe fought his way from eighth to second.
Hoe took the lead at turn six on lap four, and Bach pressured Pedersen until passing him on lap six. Poulsen, Nissen and F5 runner Mads Larsen were now close behind, as Morsing parked up his car at the side of the track.
It was close at the front, and Bach’s go at taking the lead on lap eight sent him off and behind Pedersen. He returned to second at turn six on lap nine, as Larsen overtook Poulsen.
There was more drama on the last lap, with Bach getting within 0.265s of Hoe and Pedersen crashing out at turn two after Poulsen and Larsen overtook him on either side.
Hoe had pole for the longer race three but another bad start. It proved inconsequential, as he only felt pressure for a few corners before pulling away to win by 12s. Bach was second after resisting the mistake-prone Kristiansen’s early attacks, Poulsen’s race-long defending earned him third, and on the final lap Morsing squeezed down Pedersen’s inside at turn one for fourth. FNordic victor Kalousdian was 11th.
Results round-up [F5 entrants in italics, FR1.6 entrants in bold]
Race 1 (11 laps)
1 Mads Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport 18m02.418s
2 Marius Kristiansen Team FSP +2.132s
3 Magnus Pedersen MP Racing +7.216s
4 Sebastian Bach STEP Motorsport +7.601s
5 Viktor Snebjoern Poulsen STEP Motorsport +12.034s
6 Anton Morsing Mads Hoe Motorsport +15.468s
7 Casper Nissen STEP Motorsport +17.453s
8 George Sebastian Pavlopoulos STEP Motorsport +18.212s
9 Melvin Kalousdian Race Team Gellerasen +26.057s
10 Mads Larsen Mads Hoe Motorsport +27.247s
Pole: Hoe, 1m36.557s
Fastest lap: Hoe, 1m36.781s
Race 2 (11 laps)
1 Hoe 18m07.375s
2 Bach +0.265s
3 Poulsen +1.468s
4 Nissen +1.901s
5 Larsen +3.533s
6 Kristiansen +4.252s
7 Pavolopoulos +7.460s
8 Mille Hoe Mads Hoe Motorsport +8.208s
9 Kalousdian +19.391s
10 Richard Olson +21.154s
FL: Kristiansen, 1m36.104s
Race 3 (14 laps)
1 Mads Hoe 22m52.856s
2 Bach +12.019s
3 Poulsen +18.205s
4 Morsing +18.435s
5 Pedersen +18.898s
6 Kristiansen +19.227s
7 Nissen +22.352s
8 Larsen +25.308s
9 Pavolpoulos +32.932s
10 Mille Hoe +41.753s
FL: Mads Hoe, 1m36.903s
Nordic 4 standings
1 Bach 103 2 Kristiansen 95 3 Pedersen 81 4 Mads Hoe 75 5 Nissen 61 6 Poulsen 58 7 Larsen 32 8 Morsing 30 9 Pavlopoulous 26 10 Alexia Danielsson 24