Maxim Travin first victory in the German Championship “Formula 3″
On the track “Spa” in Belgium on the second stage of «ATS Formel 3 Trophy» Maksim Travin scores first career victory in the tournament and led the overall standings.
May 5-7 on the road, “Spa-Francorchamps’ has passed the second stage of the German Championship” Formula 3 “. Pilots for the first time the team participated in this event at this track, which debuted at this year’s championship on the calendar. Race held in conjunction with the stage of «Le Mans Series», and the track always takes the stage the World Cup in the class “Formula 1″.
Team «Max Travin Racing» came to start at full strength. The mechanics and engineers, the team managed to restore the car after a heavy Nicholas Martsenko accident at the preceding stage.
In the first race of the qualifications and command pilot Maxim Travin held the second position in the class of «ATS Formel 3 Trophy», and in Saturday’s race-goal could finish first. By the number dialed for four held this year Maxim Travin race topped the rating of the season.
Nicholas Martsenko all weekend progressed, however, problems with lack of speed on the straight sections of the route, the pursuing him in the first stage, prevented the show again a good result. The engineers of Volkswagen several times checked the electronic engine control unit, reprogrammed ignition timing, but a tangible result to no avail.
A week before the next phase based on the team in Germany Dallara F307 Martsenko Nicholas will be held a full audit of the braking system and gearbox.
The next stage of the championship will be held May 14-15 on the road “Zaksenring” in Germany.
Nicholas Martsenko, command pilot, “The racing weekend left two kinds of feelings – on the one hand, we have successfully worked on a new path for myself: I have improved my lap time on the weekend for four seconds. On the other – problems with speed on the straight left, which is why it was difficult to deal with rivals on long sections of the route. ”
Maxim Travin, pilot and team leader: “The first victory in the German trophy – a pleasant event for our whole team, which shows that we are moving in the right direction. Problems with the car of Nicholas Martsenko may even lead us to reject cooperation with the Volkswagen engines and switching to Mercedes-Benz ».
Team «Max Travin Racing» support: a group of companies “Ilan”, the largest Internet company «Mail.Ru Group», the most popular magazine of modified cars in Russia, “Auto tuning”.