Round 1 Sub finals summary

Todays running sees 2 complete rounds of finals, up to the B, in both modified and stock classes before the first leg of the A-mains are run. With one round already complete the sub finals have seen lots of top quality racing and world class drivers in action. In the modified C-main it was Atsushi Hara from Japan, the former World Champion who had a bad qualifying session, that got it together for the final, setting the fastest lap of the final on his way to a 3 second win ahead of 1/5th scale World Champion Martin Lissau in 2nd.

C Final (Modified) Round 1
1. (4) Atsushi Hara – 19L 313.98
2. (8) Martin Lissau – 18L 300.99
3. (2) Christer Andersson – 18L 302.21
4. (9) Sakke Ahoniemi – 18L 305.39
5. (6) Federico Sala – 18L 306.51
6. (7) Craig Drescher – 18L 308.87
7. (10) Christopher Krapp – 18L 310.17
8. (5) Jonas Kaerup – 18L 313.28
9. (3) Jonas Andersson – 18L 315.57
10.(1) Steffen Leinburger – 14L 251.20

The B-final saw some even tougher competition on track with Simo Ahoniemi being shadowed by Shin Adachi for most of the race, the pair crossing the line only 5 tenths apart with Simo taking the win and Toni Rheinard a further 3 seconds back in 3rd.

B Final (Modified) Round 1
1. (3) Simo Ahoniemi – 19L 313.10
2. (2) Shin Adachi – 19L 313.61
3. (4) Toni Rheinhard – 19L 316.38
4. (7) Helge Johannessen – 18L 304.79
5. (5) Marc Fisher – 18L 308.01
6. (6) Dirk Wischnewski – 18L 309.25
7. (9) Bastian Schaefer – 18L 310.58
8. (8) Bart Wubben – 18L 314.59
9. (1) Steven Weiss – 18L 315.53
10.(10) Sebastian Trzaska – 2L 43.43

In the stock C final it was Xray driver Carsten Madsen that took a marginal win over second placed team mate Daniel Horn. Starting from the pole position he ended the race only half a second ahead of Horn while 3 seconds further back was Kenneth Malkusson. The B-final saw a lights to flag victory for Palle Hornum, the Xray driver from Denmark easily won the race with a 4 second margin from Tamiya racer Dennis Hassing in 2nd, while Ole Strandlyst, also from Denmark, rounded out the top 3.

B Final (Stock) Round 1
1. (1) Palle Hornum – 17L 318.86
2. (6) Dennis Hassing – 16L 304.30
3. (2) Ole Strandlyst – 16L 304.55

C Final (Stock) Round 1
1. (1) Carsten Madsen – 16L 301.29
2. (2) Daniel Horn – 16L 301.75
3. (4) Kenneth Malkusson – 16L 304.62