| Race Report by Dotan Halevy |
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| The second race of the Israeli Super League took place at the amazing track called "Speed at Negev" in Nir-moshe. It was the second race out of eight. |
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| We arrived in the morning and found muddy track, a surprise that none of us had expected. Nevertheless we chose to run the cars with the dry track setup and see how it will be. We ran the car that way on practice round and surprisingly it worked very well, and as far as I know none of us changed anything. |
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Qualifying
Qualifying was very impressive for our team. After the first round most of us were already in the top spots, and after the second round and trying different tires I was able to secure the TQ position, Dan Price was in second place, Adir Zvuluni in fourth, Paul Price in fifth, Meir Azulay in sixth and Ronen Elkalai closing the list of higher spots in ninth place all of them using the XRAY XB808. |
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| In the Truggy class, Erez Even-Hen, the owner of the track, who raced for only the second time since he started with R/C, secured the TQ position racing the XRAY XT8. |
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Finals
In the semi finals, the team was even better. In my semi final I found good pace from the start and managed to win the round comfortably also securing pole position for the main final, while Paul finished second and Ronen fourth. |
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| In the second semi final, Meir finished first with very impressive driving, only 2 seconds slower than my time, which secured the second place in final starting order for him, Adir finished second, also proving that he is very fast driver, and Dan finished third place. |
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The team managed to secure the first five for the final starting order.
In the final, I held the lead almost from start to finish, while Dan chased very close behind. Meir, Adir and Paul unfortunately sufferd from engine and wheels problems, preventing them starting the race. At the end, I finished first, Dan second and Ronen sixth. |
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Buggy Class
1 Dotan Halevy XRAY XB808
2 Dan Price XRAY XB808
3 Yaniv Levi
4 Etgar Baksis
5 Avi Yadgar
6 Ronen Elkalai XRAY XB808
7 Sharon Peri
8 Meir Azulay XRAY XB808
9 Adir Zvuluni XRAY XB808
10 Paul Price XRAY XB808 |
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In Truggy class, Erez finished second in the semi final, and after very close battle, he finished third in the main final making TQ + podium finish on his second race!
Truggy Class
1 David Shema
2 Tomer Grinberg
3 Erez Even-Hen XRAY XT8 |
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