24.01.2017
Report by VRC race reporting
SEASON 1 2017 1:8 NITRO BUGGY MODIFIED, ROUND 1 Silver Dollar 2
Nitro buggy modified serie started the season from Silver Dollar 2 track. Miliar names were at top after semifinal. Giordano, Koski and Andreuccetti were only ones, who hitted 21laps in semifinal round. But there was also big names behind top3, Britains Le Pavoux and two Swedes, Hillman and Larsson.
In the Final, Larsson who started from fourth grid, was toughest. He hitted almost perfect run and secured his win in here. He got one bigger mistake at lap 22, but his pace was good enough to take this opening round.
Six seconds after Larsson, Britains James Le Pavoux crossed the finishline. He had also great drive, but he didnt get this easy. Hillman who was unlucky at start of the final, when he flipped his car and drop to last position, was pressuring Le Pavoux at end of the Final.
After his flip, Hillman had run very furiously, without mistakes lifted his position to third place and gained Le Pavoux. But Le Pavoux hold his nerves, and won this battle with tiny 0.3 seconds margin.
Italian Andrea Giordano was also really close at podium fight, he crossed the line in fourth position, one second behind Hillman.
When results were published, we saw that Le Pavoux and Giordano had refueled one time against Larsson`s and Hillman`s two. So, this tells something about these two Swedish drivers, how great they pace was.
Jonas Larsson and his Reedy powered ride
In SPORT level Italian Erik Bottosso totally crushed others, with his pace he was sixth fastest in overall results. Great run from Erik! Second podium went to Peter Haaima from Netherlands and third place to Michael Olsljung from Sweden, gap between these two was 4 seconds at finishline.
In CLUB level Finnish driver Marko Laitinen was unstoppable and gave same kind of knock-out to his fellow competitors as Bottosso in SPORT level. He wonned this level with 2 laps margin.
From second podium place we had good fight, as Czech Dalibor Rohác and Britains Rob Reeves solved that one. Finally Dalibor was stronger and took second place with 1.2 seconds margin to Reeves.
Hillman(orange) and Le Pavoux at last lap
After the race VRC race reporting asked few guestions from Jonas Larsson
Was your run perfect at Final?
"It was a perfect run apart from 1 mistake but that doesn`t matter too much."
From top5, Le Pavoux,Giordano and Koski made only one refuel, its possible, any comment of this?
"I did not know you could do one pitstops after the semifinal.
And when I knew that you could run 10 minutes without any refueling. I didn`t make any changes to the car cause I believed that I could win if i was consistent enough."
Season target?
"I hope to win more events this season and hopefully take the win."
Thanks to Jonas and congratulations!
FINAL RESULTS
A-main PRO
1|Jonas Larsson|SE|40|20:01.408
2|James Le Pavoux|GB|40|20:07.374
3|Robert Hillman|SE|40|20:07.689
4|Andrea Giordano|IT|40|20:08.732
5|Ari Koski|FI|40|20:16.457
6|Kevin Lee|KR|40|20:26.492
7|Harry Schnarkowski|DE|39|20:01.325
8|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT|39|20:01.875
9|Carson Yeung|HK|39|20:07.443
10|Brad Thorn|US|39|20:22.920
A-main SPORT
1|Erik Bottosso|IT|40|20:16.774
2|Peter Haaima|NL|38|20:06.566
3|Michael Olsljung|SE|38|20:10.472
4|Ruben Martins|AU|38|20:18.815
5|Emanuele Sartori|IT|38|20:21.149
6|Jabin Carlton|US|38|20:21.600
7|Lala Lu|TW|38|20:22.137
8|Max Hamun Ahmadi Zenouz|DE|37|20:04.514
9|Dave Langan|AU|37|20:21.326
10|Corentin Richard|FR|DNS
A-main CLUB
1|Marko Laitinen|FI|38|20:08.277
2|Dalibor Roháč|CZ|36|20:22.406
3|Rob Reeves|GB|36|20:23.611
4|Romain LAMBERT|FR|36|20:25.697
5|Nuno Lourenco|PT|35|20:30.871
6|Alex Deperschmidt|DE|34|20:15.449
7|Mario Unverzagt|DE|34|20:29.232
8|Robson White|GB|32|20:16.140
9|Anibal Menezes|ZA|31|20:15.926
10|Jonathan Wolfe|GB|DNS
Semifinal winner Andrea Giordano
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