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Race report by Mike Gosvig
The last race of the season was held in Bramming, same place as last year in the horse hall.

The track is always super fun to drive, and the grip is not that good, but that is also good to try, the club did a good job, and some good drivers from Germany were also attending the race – But they will not count in the championship standings, only the race on the day.

In the Truggy class, my XRAY XT9 was super good, I could TQ 2 rounds and got a bad last round so Peter made the fastest times there and got the overall TQ! He was hunting the championship from Silas, who looked like he struggled a little.

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In the final I got a bad start, I got crashed a few times at the beginning, so Peter Harder was nearly a lap in lead, Silas Hogholt was in second place some meters behind Peter.

After a few laps I found the pace after the hectic start, and I could pull a little in on Peter and Silas lap by lap. At the first fuel stop, Peter was a little too fast into the pit and hit the barrier and broke the car, now Silas was in the lead and was 15 seconds in front of me, after some time I was only 5 seconds behind Silas, so I could start to feel a battle to the end of the race!
But Silas had to retire with a broken rear axle. From that moment I led the race to cross finish line 6 laps in front of Tim Culmsee and Mike Kjaersgaard.

The car and engine was super good all the race, thanks to my mechanic Bjarne Petersson.

With this win I became Vice-champion in the truggy class with the same point as Silas Hogholt.

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Final standings of the race
1. Mike Gosvig – XRAY XT9

2. Tim Culmsee
3. Mike Kjaersgaard


Overall National championships top 3 standings:
1. Silas Hogholt
2. Mike Gosvig – XRAY XT9
3. Peter Harder


The E-buggy class, the race was on between me and Magnus Frandsen, on Friday night when we tried the track for the first time we had the same speed, and we had a lot of fun in practice together. In the practice run I had the fastest time over the run, but not the fastest lap time, it was Burak Killic from Germany.

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In first qualification Magnus was able to make the fastest run, in the second run it was Burak Killic and in the third round it was me to take the TQ. So all was set to the last round, and it was Magnus Frandsen who took this round, his car was super-fast, I could take second place in this round.

I lined up 3rd on the grid behind Burak and with Berkan Killic behind me, Magnus was on the TQ, so now it was only the victory away from both Magnus and me to decide who would be the champion of 2015.

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Magnus had a Perfect start, Burak was nervous in the start and rolled his car after few corners, I could take 2nd place, but not for long, I made I mistake on the 5th jumps. And Magnus was gone, the rest of the race there were some good battles from 2 to 6 place, I got 4th place in this run. Magnus won the main easily, with Burak in second and Berkan in 3rd.

Magnus got again a clean start, but Burak was pushing really hard, they had a long battle and in the end Burak rolled his car, so Magnus would get by and tokk the win and the overall Championship title! I got 3rd in this main after a battle with Pelle Culmsee in 4th.

Congratulation to Magnus Frandsen! Thanks for a good season with extreme close and nice racing!

My car did’nt have the same grip in the last main as earlier in the day, so the car was hard to drive, I was still able to defeat the 2nd place with Magnus right behind me

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A-main standings of the day:
1. Magnus Frandsen
2. Berkan Killic
3. Burak Killic
4. Mike Gosvig – XRAY XB8E
5. Pelle Culmsee
6. Henning Warner
7. Jan D. Hansen
8. Florian Muller
9. Nikolai Lamberts

Overall Danish National championship top 3:
1. Magnus Frandsen
2. Mike Gosvig – XRAY XB8E
3. Jan D. Hansen

The XRAY XB8E had been super good and fast all season long I had a close battles with Magnus throughout the year! Very nice, and thanks to all the guys for excellent season!

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The Last and biggest class was 1:8 Nitro buggy, the title was to be decided between me, Peter Harder and Jan D. Hansen! I needed TQ and win for the championship title. My car felt very good on Saturday night, I only did some small fine tunes on the FX engine with my mechanic Bjarne, and the rest of the car felt just right, so easy to drive and extremely fast!

During the early practice I just tried to feel the car, and drove without mistakes. Car felt super good, and I was ready for the race.

In the first round I had problems with my receiver pack and lost two laps, but I had the fastest car on track!!

In the next rounds I needed 3x TQ to take the overall TQ, and I made it. My car and engine felt super smooth, and was just so to drive around the track. I took TQ ahead of Pelle Culmsee and Magnus Frandsen.

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After qualys:
1. Mike Gosvig – XRAY XB8 - TQ
2. Pelle Culmsee
3. Magnus Frandsen
4. Peter Harder – XRAY XB8
5. Burak Killic
6. Silas Hogholt
7. Berkan Killic
8. Jan D. Hansen
9. Henning Warner
10. Tim Culmsee

My semifinal went very well, car was awesome, I only made 2 small mistakes, but I was almost a lap faster than the rest. Pelle Culmsee won the other semifinal infront of Peter Harder. Fast Silas H?gholt had some bad luck with engine problems, so he was out of the main.

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The Main started ok for me, I led the first lap and pulled away with Pelle, but on 2nd lap I got the 5th jump wrong on the back and dropped down to 3rd. Now I started to pull up to Burak and Pelle, I overtook Pelle and I was just waiting behind Burak for his mistake, the same was on after our first fuel stop, Burak came out in front of me, and the battle continued, until Markus Reise gave Burak Space to overtake him, but after my overtake he just drove into my rear end on the straight and my car flew into the big jump, I got marshalled but lost a precious seconds.

After some time I made my pass again, but Markus took me out once more. Now I saw that Burak was almost impossible to catch after I got crashed 2 times, the car felt very tweaked the rest of the main, I was able to get 2nd place this race, with only a half lap to Burak. Berkan was in 3rd place. Jan D. Hansen was in 4th and Peter in 5th. Magnus Frandsen had to retire early with a broken car. The main was very disappointing for me, as I think without those two hits I got from the rear I could have had a nice battle with Burak!

But in the end it all came together and I got the Nationals title!! I’m super happy with this, the car and engine felt so good all year, and thanks to all my supporters and sponsors! Without you this was not possible! BIG THANKS!

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Top 3 Overall championship:
1. Mike Gosvig – XRAY XB8
2. Peter Harder – XRAY XB8

3. Jan D. Hansen

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