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Race report by Dirk Wischnewski
Last weekend the German 1/10th 200mm nitro championship was held at the track in Munster in the north part of Germany. The weather forecast promised rain for the practice days but dry weather for Saturday and Sunday. The track surface is very old and bumpy so that the cars jumped around like buggy’s in some sections of the circuit.

The Qualification started on Saturday morning, with 5 rounds of 5min runs. Right from the beginning it was a close battle between Eric Dankel and me for the TQ spot. I set my fastest time already in the second qualifier. The grip level of the track improved constantly so that Eric was able to beat my time by 1sec in the penultimate run. Unfortunately I had engine problems in the last qualifying run so I was not able to improve my time from round 2.

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Result after 5 rounds of Qualifying.
1. Eric Dankel
2. Dirk Wischnewski -XRAY NT1
3. Ronald Völker
4. Rico Kröber - XRAY NT1
5. Toni Gruber
6. Dominic Greiner
7. Patrick Schäfer
8. Bernd Rausch
9. Steve Baumgarten
10. Daniel Toennessen

Just like the current EFRA rules there was no direct qualifying for the top 4 spots, and everybody had to go through the 30 minutes semi finals. I was able to run the faster Semi than Eric so I would start from Pole position for the main final.

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After a good start Eric and I were able to open a gap to the rest of the field. Just before the 15min mark I made a stupid mistake and crashed the car at the end of the main straight. In this crash I destroyed my right front tire so that my car under steered very badly for the rest of the 40min race. Eric took full advantage of this problem and drove a perfect race and took a much deserved win.

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Final Result:
1. Eric Dankel
2. Dirk Wischnewski – XRAY NT1
3. Dominik Greiner
4. Arndt Bernhardt
5. Toni Gruber
6. Patrick Nähr
7. Daniel Horn – XRAY NT1
8. Rico Kröber – XRAY NT1

9. Andreas Giesa
10. Ronald Völker

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Dirk Wischnewski