Alessandro Balzan controls first Ferrari Challenge race at Imola
Alessandro Balzan took an emphatic win in the first Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli race of the weekend at Imola
Having been comfortably fastest in both of Saturday's qualifying sessions, Balzan took a lights-to-flag win in the first 30-minute race. While the Ferrari Moscow driver was never able to completely shake Niki Cadei, the gap was never smaller than 0.3 seconds, and was out to well over a second by the end of the race.
Cadei finished second for Motor/Piacenza, while Monza race winner Bjorn Grossman was unable to trouble the leaders, finishing a lonely third, to give Ferrari Moscow two cars on the podium.
Lorenzo Case' was another driver to have a lonely race, the Italian finishing fourth, more than three seconds clear of Max Blancardi.
Behind the top five, there was a real battle for sixth. Alexandr Skryabin and Andrii Kruglyk went at it for the whole half hour, Skryabin eventually taking the place, just 0.2s clear of Kruuglyk.
Dario Caso, Robert Pergl and Briton Alexander Martin rounded out the top 10.
Earlier in the day, Daniele di Amato took a comfortable win over Alexey Basov in the first Coppa Shell race of the weekend.
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