30.08.2017

Report by J-P.Huhtala

2017 SEASON 2 1:8 NITRO BUGGIES SPEC ROUND 3 IBR Padova

PRO level

IBR Padova hosted 3rd round race of 1:8 nitro buggy spec serie. At PRO level American Ely Rojas was setting the pace at qualifying and took the pole with half second distance to another American, Tom Rinderknecht. Third fastest was Tommi Vacklin from Finland, 2.3 second away from TQ pace. Behind Vacklin, at fourth place was French Gaetan Anger. These all four top drivers were all inside 2.8 seconds.

When tone shouted for the start of the main, Rojas hold his position and got the lead. After four laps, Rojas made his mistake at midfield, flipped his car and Vacklin got the lead. Rojas dropped to fourth place.
Next laps showed how similar these drivers paces were, Vacklin was in the lead, Rinderknecht second, Anger third and Rojas at fourth place. Pace was very similar and nobody couldnt escape from this pack. Lap eleven solved something of this race, as Rinderknecht and Anger made their mistakes, Rinderknecht`s mistake took 4 seconds and Anger`s 8 seconds.
Now Vacklin and Rojas were in charge and with flawless run, this will solve between them.
Vacklin made his refuel at lap 14 and Rojas at 18th lap. After pitstops, Rojas was at lead by 2.4 seconds, Vacklin was chasing. Last laps Rojas and Vacklin had they ”mouse & cat” driving, and both had to push really hard. Even Rojas had poor two last laps, he survived and got the win with very tiny 0.2s distance to Vacklin. Rinderknecht crossed the line in thrid place, almost 5 seconds behind winner.


Tommi Vacklin and Ely Rojas

SPORT level

Belgian Daan Haaling was on his own at SPORT level, he won this race with huge 16 seconds margin before Canadian driver, Stephane Ethier. Haaling was fourth after qualifying, and was really flying at main, just great pace. Third place went to Garrett Benson from USA, he was 7 seconds behind Ethier when race ended.


Daan Haaling had great race

CLUB level

Club level race had pretty much same script like Sport level race. Spaniard Paplo Izguierdo Lopez won this level with 10 seconds margin. American Alan Prevendar crossed the line in second place and Isla Pesca from Japan third place. Pesca was one lap away from Prevendars pace when race was ended.


Pablo Izquierdo Lopez was fastest at CLUB level

FINAL RESULTS

PRO

1|Ely Rojas|US|26|15:26.717 2|Tommi Vacklin|FI|26|15:26.934 3|Tom Rinderknecht|US|26|15:31.503 4|Gaetan ANGER|FR|25|15:01.466 5|Tommaso Andreuccetti|IT|25|15:04.729 6|Carson Yeung|HK|25|15:12.320 7|Dan Marson|GB|25|15:12.828 8|Jabin Carlton|US|25|15:27.646 9|Danny Kwiatkowski|NO|25|15:30.220 10|Alejandro Prieto|ES|25|15:30.400

SPORT

1|Daan Haling|BE|25|15:12.958 2|Stephane Ethier|CA|25|15:29.865 3|Garrett Benson|US|25|15:36.380 4|Frank Wagner|DE|24|15:04.412 5|Andy Garcia|UA|24|15:06.108 6|Yilmaz Tuncel|CA|24|15:11.171 7|Nuno Lourenco|PT|24|15:26.706 8|Shon Harding|US|24|15:31.566 9|Tyler Mackenzie|CA|24|15:34.086 10|Dalibor Roháč|CZ|23|15:07.989

CLUB

1|Pablo Izquierdo Lopez|ES|24|15:16.423 2|Alan Prevendar|US|24|15:25.880 3|isla pesca|JP|23|15:27.600 4|Josh Margroff|US|23|15:35.346 5|Takayuki Osaka|JP|22|15:03.949 6|PHILLIP HARRIS|US|20|15:10.854

SEASON STANDINGS AFTER 3 ROUNDS

PRO level

1|Ely Rojas|238 2|Gaetan ANGER|222 3|Carson Yeung|216 4|Jabin Carlton|198 5|Tommaso Andreuccetti|197 6|Gary Crowell|176 7|Valeriy Kornilov|174 8|Seb LAMBERT|167 9|Ruben Martins|163 10|Akos Fazekas|152

SPORT level

1|Frank Wagner|234 2|Stephane Ethier|222 3|Nuno Lourenco|210 4|Francisco Fernandez|186 5|Daan Haling|158 6|Tyler Mackenzie|156 7|Shon Harding|155 8|Yilmaz Tuncel|140 9|Gary Sundman|124 10|Dan Hoogwerff|119

CLUB level

1|Pablo Izquierdo Lopez|234 2|Alan Prevendar|226 3|isla pesca|222 4|Josh Margroff|220 5|Takayuki Osaka|210 6|PHILLIP HARRIS|176 7|Tim Sekutowski|167 8|Jason Platt|164 9|Brad Dalbec|163 10|Sean Ironmonger|138

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