Jotun wins Romanian Grand Prix and Championship
Posted on 01/09/2008
Jotun’s Inge Brigt Aarbakke and Jorn Tandberg were celebrating the team’s first major title in over a decade, after winning today’s Romanian Grand Prix to clinch the European Championship by one point from the unlucky Victory 1 crew of Mohammed Al Marri and Nadir Bin Hendi, with Qatar 95 finishing second and Victory 7 coming home in third place.
Despite a good start, the Mercury V8-powered Jotun trailed Victory 1, the championship leader’s and pre-race favourites, into the first corner and could not match their extraordinary pace for the first quarter of the race, as Al Marri and Bin Hendi opened up an 18 second lead.
