Enrico Bellei Wins European Championship

Last weekend in Germany 12 Top Drivers from all over Europe competed against each other in 8 different races spread over two days in order to determine the Euroopean Champion Driver for 2012.

Our country was represented by the current champion driver Noel Baldacchino who unfortunately did not draw up good enough horses to leave his mark and he even had two horses scratched from the four he had on the second day of the competition.

The competition was held at the racetrack of Hamburg and was won by Italian driver Enrico Bellei.  Noel Baldacchino finished in 10th place with 37 points.

1.       Enrico Bellei (Italy) – 94 points
2.       Bjorn Goop (Sweden) – 90 points
3.       Gerhard Mayr (Austria)  73 points
4.       Pierre Vercruysse (France) – 64 points
5.       Rene Kjaer (Denmark) – 62 points
6.       Mika Forss (Finland) – 60 points
7.       Antonio Frontera Pocovi (Spain) – 57.5 points
8.       Eirik Hoitomt (Norway) – 55 points
9.       Roland Hulskath (Germany) – 50 points
10.   Noel Baldacchino (Malta) – 37 points
11.   Csaba Lakatos (Hungary) – 35 points
12.   Marc Huygens (Belgium) – 28.5 points

Lorraine Cunningham