{"id":9824,"date":"2025-09-11T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/?p=9824"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:23:42","slug":"freca-three-podium-finishes-and-the-championship-lead-for-r-ace-gp-at-the-red-bull-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/2025\/09\/11\/freca-three-podium-finishes-and-the-championship-lead-for-r-ace-gp-at-the-red-bull-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"FRECA: Three podium finishes and the championship lead for R-ace GP at the Red Bull Ring\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-nobi-blocks-media aligncenter\"><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11\/Enzo-deligny-jin-nakamura-r-ace-gp-red-bull-ring-podium-second-third-2025-season-motorsport-racing-formula-regional-.jpg\" alt=\"Enzo deligny jin nakamura r-ace gp red bull ring podium second third 2025 season motorsport racing formula regional\" width=\"1282\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11\/Enzo-deligny-jin-nakamura-r-ace-gp-red-bull-ring-podium-second-third-2025-season-motorsport-racing-formula-regional-.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11\/Enzo-deligny-jin-nakamura-r-ace-gp-red-bull-ring-podium-second-third-2025-season-motorsport-racing-formula-regional-.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 90vw\"\/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7 September 2025 \u2013 The seventh round of the FRECA championship took place at the Red Bull Ring. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/2025\/08\/04\/freca-triumphant-weekend-at-imola-for-r-ace-gp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">It was another successful weekend for R-ace GP<\/a>, which left Austria with three more podium finishes and the top spot in the provisional overall classification.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Collective tests<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enzo Deligny (#23) was the fastest in the first collective test session with a time of 1:25.837. His teammates Jin Nakamura (#11) and Akshay Bohra (#31) finished 6th and 13th respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second session, Bohra moved up to 8th place, while Deligny and Nakamura finished 11th and 16th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Qualifying and Race 1: <strong>Deligny on the podium and Nakamura&#8217;s impressive comeback<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday morning during qualifying, Akshay Bohra set the fastest time in his group in 1:25.981, followed by Enzo Deligny (2nd). Jin Nakamura, who suffered a mechanical problem, was unable to be classified.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the start of the race, Bohra took off from 2nd place and Deligny from 4th. Starting last, Nakamura made a spectacular comeback, gaining ten positions in the first few laps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deligny eventually took the lead over Bohra and crossed the finish line in 3rd place, giving R-ace GP its first podium of the weekend. Bohra finished fifth, while Nakamura finished in the top 10 (9th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Qualifying and race 2: <strong>A double podium to end the weekend<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday morning, the team confirmed its competitiveness: Enzo Deligny set the fastest lap time in qualifying in his group with a time of 1:25.142, ahead of Nakamura (2nd) and Bohra (5th).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting in 2nd place, Deligny immediately put pressure on the leader, closely followed by his teammate Jin Nakamura. Behind them, Bohra, who started from 10th place, lost two positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of the race, Enzo Deligny took 2nd place ahead of Jin Nakamura, 3rd, who secured his first podium finish in FRECA as well. It was a mixed result for Akshay Bohra, who finished 12th.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-nobi-blocks-media aligncenter\"><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11\/Enzo-deligny-jin-nakamura-r-ace-gp-red-bull-ring-podium-second-third-2025-season-motorsport-racing-formula-regional-2.jpg\" alt=\"Enzo deligny jin nakamura r-ace gp red bull ring podium second third 2025 season motorsport racing formula regional\" width=\"1282\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11\/Enzo-deligny-jin-nakamura-r-ace-gp-red-bull-ring-podium-second-third-2025-season-motorsport-racing-formula-regional-2.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11\/Enzo-deligny-jin-nakamura-r-ace-gp-red-bull-ring-podium-second-third-2025-season-motorsport-racing-formula-regional-2.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 90vw\"\/><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>R-ace GP takes the lead in the championship<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the end of another solid weekend for R-ace GP, which has now claimed nine podium finishes since the start of the season. These results have enabled the Vend\u00e9e-based team to take the lead in the provisional championship standings with 330 points. The next meetings will therefore be decisive in extending the lead and securing a superb trophy at the end of the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See you on 20 September for the eighth meeting of the season in Barcelona, Spain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To rewatch this weekend\u2019s races,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@formularegionaleubyalpine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;go to FRECA Youtube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To follow our performances throughout the season, check out our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RaceGP.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/r.ace.gp\/?hl=fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;pages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 September 2025 \u2013 The seventh round of the FRECA championship took place at the Red Bull Ring. It was another successful weekend for R-ace GP, which left Austria with three more podium finishes and the top spot in the provisional overall classification.\u00a0 Collective tests Enzo Deligny (#23) was the fastest in the first collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"class_list":["post-9824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freca-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9825,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions\/9825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.r-ace-gp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}