05.09.2017
Report by J-P.Huhtala
2017 SEASON 2 1:8 NITRO BUGGIES ROUND 3 IBR Padova
PRO level
Third round event of 1:8 nitro buggy serie was raced at IBR Padova track. American Tom Rinderknecht was absolutely on his own level when winner was solved. This 15 years old youngster won the qualifying with 6 second margin to South Korean driver Kevin Lee. Behind Lee, was another American, Marshall Kirkholm. He earned third grid for the main, and was almost 8 seconds away from Rinderknecht`s and over one second from Lee`s pace.
As the main started, nobody couldnt answer to Rinderknecht`s pace. After first lap, Tom had pulled over one second gap to second place. And it was very clear, that without any problems, with his furios pace, this was going to be his race. He did fantastic and consistent run, was totally on his own and won this race with 17 second gap. Rinderknecht`s average lap was 33.540.
Marko Laitinen from Finland was succeeder of the race. He started from 8th grid and finished in second place. After five laps, Marko had allready gained his position to second and from this point, he continued his great, consistent style and took the second place. Great drive also from Marko! Max Zenouz from Germany was another succeeder, he drove very good final. Despite his few bigger mistakes, his low 34s laps secured his third place.
Rinderknecht flew to victory
SPORT level
Swedish 14 years old offroader Joel Martinsson won the Sport level race. He was most consistent and had best pace. Only who could challenge Martinsson a little, was German Frank Wagner. Even Wagner would need four tenths better pace to give more pressure to Martinsson.
Wagner instead had great battle against Netherlands Peter Haaima. When half distance was driven from the final, it looked that it was going to be easy second place for Wagner, but he start to struggle with his pace and this gave chance to Haaima. Haaima was consistent, got good rhytm and started to pressure Wagner. And things werent getting easier to Wagner, as he made his mistake at lap 19 and Haaima was now under 3 second from him. As they crossed the line in lap 32, they were side by side, only 0.075 distance from each other.
Haaima`s furios drive and chase was ruined in next lap by his mistake and Wagner got few seconds get away. Wagner only job was to drive safe last lap and get the second place.
So, Martinsson won, Wagner was second, 10 seconds and Haaima third, 12 seconds from winners pace.
Martinsson was unstoppable at SPORT level, Haaima and Wagner chasing
CLUB level
Portuguese Nuno Lourenco and Canadian Stephane Ethier solve the highest podium at Club level. Finally Lourenco was more faultless and crossed the line in first place, with huge 22 seconds margin to Ethier. American driver Alan Prevendar was third, 21 secodns away from winners pace.
Lourenco`s victory came in style
FINAL RESULTS
PRO
1|Tom Rinderknecht|US|36|20:28.823
2|Marko Laitinen|FI|35|20:12.323
3|Max Hamun Ahmadi Zenouz|DE|35|20:29.000
4|Fredrik Peters|SE|34|20:06.680
5|Dan Marson|GB|34|20:08.994
6|Jabin Carlton|US|34|20:11.583
7|Gary Crowell|US|34|20:28.674
8|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT|24|20:06.320
9|Marshall Kirkholm|US|3|20:02.740
SPORT
1|Joel Martinsson|SE|34|20:16.414
2|Frank Wagner|DE|34|20:26.669
3|Peter Haaima|NL|34|20:28.743
4|Seb LAMBERT|FR|34|20:32.411
5|Pablo Izquierdo Lopez|ES|33|20:10.860
6|Shon Harding|US|33|20:18.157
7|Marco Quaglia|IT|33|20:24.246
8|Gavin Powell|GB|33|20:34.263
9|Adrien Prieto|FR|32|20:17.283
CLUB
1|Nuno Lourenco|PT|33|20:16.677
2|Stephane Ethier|CA|33|20:38.583
3|Alan Prevendar|US|32|20:01.600
4|Franck Rozez|FR|32|20:32.757
5|Dan Hoogwerff|US|31|20:09.346
6|isla pesca|JP|31|20:18.494
7|Lionel HAGEGE|FR|31|20:28.442
8|Cristian Villa|IT|28|20:26.820
SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 3 ROUNDS
PRO level
1|Marshall Kirkholm|321
2|Jabin Carlton|303
3|Gary Crowell|301
4|Carson Yeung|299
5|Tommaso Andreuccetti|289
6|Tom Rinderknecht|264
7|Valeriy Kornilov|259
8|Pasi Vainionperä|255
9|Dan Marson|238
10|Jonas Dalensjö|191
SPORT level
1|Joel Martinsson|357
2|Frank Wagner|342
3|Seb LAMBERT|321
4|Pablo Izquierdo Lopez|300
5|Peter Haaima|292
6|Adrien Prieto|247
7|Tyler Mackenzie|245
8|Gaetan ANGER|222
9|Kristian Lohse|222
10|Steven Patterson|218
CLUB level
1|Nuno Lourenco|354
2|Stephane Ethier|348
3|Alan Prevendar|321
4|isla pesca|312
5|Dan Hoogwerff|302
6|Takayuki Osaka|282
7|Yuriy Tantsura|239
8|Peter Elphinstone|228
9|Brad Dalbec|211
10|Franck Rozez|201
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