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This race was a combined third round the Swedish Cup, as well as the Norwegian National Championship and was held in Oslo by Oslo Modellbilklubb. There was four classes. 1:8th Track, 1:10th 200mm Nitro Touring, and both Modified and Stock classes in electric.
The weather was very uncertain, but in the end everything was run in dry weather conditions, even though there were some rainfall during Saturday night.
The track was medium size, with a great flow, and combined with good traction it results in quite high speed all around. This generates very short lap times and very tight distance between cars in the finals.
Qualification:
After 4 rounds of qualifying in the Nitro classes Lars Haugen managed to get the TQ spot in 1:8th Track, followed by Bengt Andersson in 2nd and Christofer Hedlund in 3rd. The qualification rounds lasted for 5 minutes and plenty of drivers had problems getting to the finish without a fuel stop.
1. Lars Haugen, Norway â“ XRAY RX8
2. Bengt Andersson, Sweden
3. Christofer Hedlund, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
4. Karl Ullenius, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
5. Markus Hellquist, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
6. Per-Ola Hard, Sweden
7. Martin Christensen, Denmark
8. Mattias Ericsson, Sweden
9. Hans Lyxell, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
10. Svein Harald Ytternes, Norway
In 1:10th Nitro Touring Andreas Husman managed to claim the TQ just 0.6 seconds ahead of Frank Andersen in 2nd. Oyvind Stusdal completed the top 3.
1. Andreas Husman, Sweden
2. Frank Andersen, Norway â“ XRAY NT1
3. Oyvind Stusdal, Norway â“ XRAY NT1
4. Mickael Brandt, Sweden â“ XRAY NT1
5. José Castro, Sweden
6. Lars Stub-Holm, Denmark â“ XRAY NT1
7. Andreas Böök, Sweden
8. Erika Hellquist, Sweden â“ XRAY NT1
9. Philip Virgin, Sweden
10. Ake Törnros, Sweden ⓠXRAY NT1
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The first minutes of the 1:8th final was quite messy with a lot of positions being switched everywhere, but after the first minutes the front row stabilized and the fight was between Martin Christensen, Stig Berntsen, Markus Hellquist and Lars Haugen, who stayed on the same lap for over 20 minutes, until Martin had to retire from the race. In the end Markus Hellquist managed to secure the victory 6 seconds ahead of Lars Haugen, with Stig Berntsen in third a couple of laps behind after stopping half a minute before the finish.
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1. Markus Hellquist, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
2. Lars Haugen, Norway â“ XRAY RX8
3. Stig Berntsen, Norway â“ XRAY RX8
4. Stefan Andersson, Sweden
5. Per-Ola Hard, Sweden
6. Anders Lind, Denmark
7. Hans Lyxell, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
8. Martin Christensen, Denmark
9. Christofer Hedlund, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
10. Karl Ullenius, Sweden â“ XRAY RX8
In 1:10th Frank Andersen managed to pass Anderas Husman already on the second laps. Frank Andersen and Andreas Husman was both struck by some issues before the first fuel stop Oyvind Stusdal took over the lead for a while before he had to retire from the race. It was then back to Frank Andersen to regain the lead and be unthreatened for the rest of the race and was able to cruise to the win ahead of second place of Andreas Husman and José Castro in third, after passing Lars Stub-Holm on the last laps.
1. Frank Andersen, Norway â“ XRAY NT1
2. Andreas Husman, Sweden
3. José Castro, Sweden
4. Lars Stub-Holm, Denmark â“ XRAY NT1
5. Mickael Brandt, Sweden â“ XRAY NT1
6. Philip Virgin, Sweden
7. Andreas Böök, Sweden
8. Erika Hellquist, Sweden â“ XRAY NT1
9. Ronnie Pettersson, Sweden
10. Oyvind Stusdal, Norway â“ XRAY NT1 |
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