Last weekend the third round of the Swedish Nitro On-road Cup was held at the technical track of Staffanstorp raceway. The race had drivers coming from not only Sweden but also from Denmark and Norway. In the 1/10th class from practice it was clear that it would be a close race, since 5 drivers were at the same pace. But it was ultimately Rasmus Nielsen who set the pace in qualifying, by claiming the TQ with a rocket drive in the last round of the qualifying. Lars Stub-Holm lined up in 2nd after being outpaced by 3 seconds over the 4 minutes round and Georg Ellingsen had to settle for the 3rd spot only 6 tenths after Lars.
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Going into the 45-minute final Rasmus looked to finish like he started, but after the start Rasmus, Lars and Georg made a quite noticeable gap to the rest of the contestants. Georg was pushing hard and got past Lars but hit the curb while tracing Rasmus and needed to be restarted. Pitting a lap later than Rasmus but also a perfect stop for Lars, meant he was leading the race by a small gap. Rasmus was however looking for the top spot and was trying to get back to Lars so he was pushing to get the lead but hit a curb at the end of the straight. This allowed Lars to extend the lead by 2 laps before the third round of stops, but Lars then took the curb at end of the straight and got a chunked tyre. This slowed Larsâ™ pace so much that Rasmus was able to unlap himself and take the lead around the 17min mark. Since Lars had chunked the tyre he needed to change pitstop strategy. But even with a full set of tyres at 20min mark he wasnâ™t able to catch up to Rasmus, but a bad tyre change and a flameout at 30min mark meant Rasmus now was 2 laps down. But his full speed allowed him to end up 1 lap down. It has been 45 minutes of battles on the track and in the pits!
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1/10 Nitro Results
1. Lars Stub-Holm - XRAY NT1
2. Rasmus Nielsen â“ XRAY NT1
3. Georg Ellingsen
