| Race report by Alexander Landén |
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| The weekend provided us with a lot of mixed weather, with a lot of rain and fairly muddy conditions during saturday and the 2WD portion of the race. However, the club hade made some big efforts on working on the track during the spring so the track managed to hold up really well in the end, great job by the club! |
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| In 4WD the conditions were changing slightly all the time, whenever we hit the track it was slightly different due to the drying up, or light rain. This type of track rewards a delicate driving style since you always need to drive on the edge of the grip level to be really fast, and if you get to be too aggressive you start losing time rapidly. Alexander started out gently and secured a solid second in the first round beaten by Niclas M?nsson who took the first round. Second round was also quite solid where Alexander came in fourth which already secured a good starting position in the mains. In the third round Alexander decided to go for it a little more and was able to TQ the round, which put him into TQ position for the last round. In the final round of qualifications the heavens opened during the running of the top heat, which made the track substantially slower so the last round was cancelled. Either way Alexander's XB4 was working really well in the wet it turned out so he finished second in that round anyway so the TQ would have been secured even if the round had not been discarded. The starting order that was established for the triple A-mains was 1. Alexander, 2. Elias Johansson, 3. Niclas M?nsson and 4 Wilhelm Skjöldebrand. This was pretty much the four cars that were in the mix of it all day and they all were quite evenly matched on pace. |
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The first final was very tight between the top four cars for some time, but both Elias and Wilhelm dropped off slightly due to small mistakes, so in the end it was Alexander and Niclas that were battling for top honors and in this run they both produced the only two 11-lap runs of the day. It all came down to a last lap show-down where Niclas tried to make a move coming off the back straight but got caught on the track marker and went onto the grass and lost some time, so Alexander could keep the distance and roll over the finish line as winner.
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The second round also followed a similar pattern where the top cars broke off, again Wilhelm and Elias fell off after a few laps and the showdown was again between Niclas and Alexander with Alexander leading the way for the first seven laps before going slightly wide after a jump giving Niclas the opportunity to push his way through to take the lead. Now it was Alexander's turn to become the hunter and he followed Niclas around for almost three laps before Niclas left a small opening coming off a jump so Alexander could take the opportunity to push his way through. Niclas tried to re-pass on the following straight, but hit the rear wheels of Alexander's car and flipped, luckily Alexander didn't lose his first position during the incident, so he could maintain his place during the last lap and take overall honors by winning the first two rounds.
Alexander opted out the third round and it came down to a battle between Niclas and Elias where Elias in the end took the win and by that secured overall second with Niclas completing the podium.
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| Overall 4WD |
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1. Alexander Landén - XRAY XB4 '17
2. Elias Johansson
3. Niclas Mansson
4. Calle Svensson
5. Wilhelm Skjöldebrand
6. Jesper Uvehall
7. Rasmus Karlsson
8. Marcus Lind
9. Filippa Plyhm
10. Johnny Sageborn |
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| In 2WD the weather was acting up quite a lot, and it was periodically really wet and muddy so it was very much a game of survival all day, and very little time was possible to spend on changing setups since most of the time had to be spent on cleaning. we had just received the XB2'17 dirt edition car so we went out to the morning practice with a bit of a blank card, but it turned out to work really well, and the increased grip level of the car meant that we needed to start dialing in some steering into the car, a nice feeling on a track like this. Alexander was able to gradually improve and qualified 5th for the finals, a tough place to start but he managed to stay out of trouble and take advantage of a lot of early mistakes to finish third in the first leg and second in the second leg. This secured him third place overall. Up front Wilhelm Skjöldebrand had found really good pace and secured the first two legs quite comfortably to take the overall win, and Niclas M?nsson took the runner up spot. |
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| Overall 2WD |
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1. Wilhelm Skjöldebrand
2. Niclas M?nsson
3. Alexander Landén - XRAY XB2D '17
4. Elias Johansson
5. Calle Svensson
6. Rasmus Karlsson
7. Jesper Uvehall
8. Mikael Hedin
9. Lars Hägerman
10. Klas Bredberg - XRAY XB2D'17
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