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January 10, 2009

Leino sets Round 2 Qualifying pace

He was the Top Qualifier here in Denmark last year and after the second round of qualifying for the 2009 DHI Cup Teemu Leino is now the fastest man after just pipping team-mate & Round 1 pace setter Alexander Hagberg by 1/100th of a second. The flying Finn clocked up 21 laps in 307.20 after putting in a clean run. Leino said his car is good but getting a clean run is very difficult due to the inconsistency of the track surface, something which all the drivers are having to battle with here this weekend. ‘Yesterday I made too many mistakes but this was a clean run. Its very hard to not make mistakes as the track surface makes it very hard to predict what the car is going to do in the corners.’ The factory Xray driver will make an adjustment to his speedo after reporting run time as being right on the limit.

Team-mate Hagberg admitted to making too many small mistakes in his run. The Swede said the car is becoming too easy to drive now and so he will make some changes to the steering. Running LRP electrics, the changes to the speedo setting after yesterday’s TQ run have resulted in the perfect battery run time.

Former European Champion Jonas Kaerup continues his strong run although the Tamiya driver could have been fastest if he not rolled early on after catching a corner dot. The local hero is very happy with the set-up of his TRF416 which the Tamiya Factory Team line-up of Jilles Groskamp, Marc Rheinard and defending Champion Viktor Wilck are planning to run for the third qualifier. ETS Champion Groskamp was fourth fastest ahead of World Champion Rheinard with both drivers reporting their Speed Passion powered TRF416s sliding around a lot resulting in too many driving errors.

Marc Fisher completed the Top 6 for the round. The Corally factory driver increased the amount of time he left additive on the front tyres of his new RDX Phi 2 but made the car harder to drive at the beginning of the 5 minute run. Later in the heat the car was working well so the German will revert back to the original 5 minute application of tyre additive.

Heading the Kyosho challenge was Danish National Champion Steen Graversen. The factory driver described the run to the seventh fastest time as medium and feels he isn’t getting the most from his tyres. Behind him it was the leading Hot Bodies driven by 2007 DHI Champion Ronald Volker who set an identical time to young Christer Andersson who was the top Associated. Defending Champion Viktor Wilck rounded out the Top 10 after a troubled run.

Modified Results after round 2
1. Alexander Hagberg – 308 [155 153 0 (0) (0)]
2. Jonas Kaerup – 305 [153 152 0 (0) (0)]
3. Jilles Groskamp – 303 [152 151 0 (0) (0)]
4. Marc Rheinard – 301 [151 150 0 (0) (0)]
5. Teemu Leino – 300 [145 155 0 (0) (0)]
6. Marc Fischer – 299 [150 149 0 (0) (0)]
7. Ronald Völker – 294 [147 147 0 (0) (0)]
8. Viktor Wilck – 293 [148 145 0 (0) (0)]
9. Steen Graversen – 292 [144 148 0 (0) (0)]
10. Bart Wubben – 286 [143 143 0 (0) (0)]

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