David Richert on track at Autodrom Most, Czech Republic.

Most, Czech Republic – This weekend's Formula Renault Northern European Cup race event at Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic gave drivers and teams all they could handle. After a perfect day of testing on Thursday and another sunny day for Free Practice on Friday, the skies opened up and created havoc for the remainder of the weekend.

After a chaotic first qualifying session, and then suffering a mechanical failure at the start of a very wet second qualifying session, Canadian race car driver David Richert battled his way from a starting position of 27th to score a couple of points with a 19th place result.

"It was obviously disappointing to have the car stop out on circuit after only completing one lap of the qualifying session, but these things can happen when running a car in such difficult weather conditions. I am very satisfied that we were able to come back and finish the race with a decent result." -David Richert

A more detailed summary of the race weekend will be available at RichertRacing.com late Monday....

"David Richert is a farm-kid turned professional race car driver from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. While continuing to work on his family's farm close to Niverville, Richert began cutting his teeth by racing karts in Gimli, Manitoba. He was then selected by Volkswagen as one of the top young race car drivers in North America and competed in the VW Jetta TDI Cup. After building the business side of his racing career, and bringing on board several prominent Canadian business leaders as investors, Richert is set to tackle the highest levels of racing. Richert currently lives in Cologne, Germany, while racing with Inter Europol Competition.