What an extraordinary and full of joy weekend. Biggest, fastest and most challenging competition of the year in Poland.
First of all track â“ super grip from first hot day, flat as table, then huge rain and even more grip for all time (yes diffs were burning !). RC Wlodawa â“ Tomek Ptaszynski did great job and gave us not only best track ever in Poland but also grill, night racing option (lights all around track), great sanitary conditions and shops with parts and tires for rc cars. Also we had full time live streaming of competition from 6 cameras on youtube, interviews, race comment all the time.
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Lets go to racing stuff. We had 5 categories: IC8 buggy, IC8 truggy, ET8 buggy, ET8 truggy and very popular open clas for newbies! In all buggy classes we had controlled marked procircut tires (only 3 sets for 1 car). For first time ever we had 10 minute quali races with demand of getting pitstop (fuel) â“ that changed a lot â“ now not only driver matters but TEAM is most important thing. Super fast pistol for refueling was essential for good result!
In my personal opinion race was very demanding for all drives, constantly changing track conditions made me changing my setup from race to race pretty much. I had a lot of struggle with nitro buggy class where I burned two servos but after all I did find my gold setup there and Sunday races were really good in both classes. Took TQ in nitro truggy and 4th position in nitro buggy. That kicked even more energy in me!
In finals I won the nitro truggy class, and managed to take 2nd spot in nitro buggy class ⓠafter most amazing young guy I know ⓠBartek Zalewski (not to mention his father Rafal who did so much work on cars ⦠damm). Also i would like to thank Bartosz Pawlow for best pit stops in main finals, no mistakes there buddy!
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Nitro Truggy Results
1. Rafal Ilendo â“ XRAY XT8
2. Michal Dyrek
3. Marek Cisek
