On-form Andersson takes Q2

Last month he won the Italian Grand Prix and before that the official warm-up race for the Indoor European Championships, but now the on-form Christer Andersson has moved right in contention here at DHI Cup with a TQ run in the second qualifier.  Taking his Associated to a new fastest run of 19 laps in 5:05.752 the young Finnish driver headed home defending Champion Marc Rheinard and Q1 pace setter Teemu Leino.  Andersson, who brought the fastest lap seen here so far in Denmark down to a 15.836, put his new found pace down to a fresh diff which he said made a huge difference around the long sweeper.  Running a 5 turn version of LRP’s new Octa motor in his TC5R, some suspension changes had also made the car more consistent to drive and for now he plans no further set-up changes focusing instead on reducing the number of mistakes he made during the run.

All the top drivers made mistakes during the run.  Rheinard flipped his Tamiya which he said is starting now to push and he plans changes to give him more steering.  Team Xray’s Leino also made mistakes but not just on the track. After the run the former European Champion discovered he hadn’t correctly tightened the rear shock tower on his T3 following his routine maintenance between runs.  Behind the Top 3 the next three found themselves covered by just 4/10th with Yokomo’s Ronald Volker taking fourth from up & coming German talent Yannic Pruemper and leading local hope Steen Graversen.

In Pro Stock Alexander Stocker repeated his Q1 result setting a new fastest lap time of 16.561 but overall the run was slower due to errors.  Local Tamiya driver Thomas Larsen knocked almost 9 seconds of his time to take second thanks to a clean consistent drive.  Defending Champion Tommy Bergfeldt had two costly incidents in his run and had to settle for third ahead of Finland’s Henry Salmen and former Japanese Champion Yukijiro Umino.

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