1/4 Finals Update

After a morning of many highs & lows the grid for this afternoon’s 200mm European Championship Semi Finals are set.  Having won his 1/8 final to bump up to the first of the 1/4 finals Xray’s Martin Hudy drove a great race to win ahead of Team Shepherd’s Jilles Groskamp.  German Dominic Greiner looked to have control of the race but just before his final fuel stops his Kyosho ran out of fuel ending his chances of moving up to the Semis.  Despite suffering a flame-out at the start of the race, as did Serpent team-mate Michael Salven, Daan Jacobs recovered to take the final bump position.  Along with two time champion Michael Salven, who had a second flame out, the other big casualty of the 1/4 B final was championship runner up for the past two years Alexander Hagberg who could only manage 5th.

In the second of the 1/4 Finals there was hard luck for 2007 podium finisher Alessio Mazzeo. Having bumped up from his 1/8 Final, which he won comfortably, the Italian teenager had a clear lead over fellow Serpent driver Mark Green but coming up to the last round of pit stops his 733 ran out of fuel.  Green, who lost 6 seconds during his first pit stop, as his car got spun twice as he tried to leave the pitlane, fell to sixth but recovered the take the win ahead of French RB team driver Michael Derderian and German Dirk Stammler’s Serpent.  Unfortunately an engine flame out ended European B Champion Patrick Nähr’s event.  Other drivers of note to drop put where former World finalist Francesco Tironi and British Champion Kyle Branson who had bumped up from the 1/8 Finals.

Elsewhere former World Champion Adrien Bertin looked set to bump up from his 1/8 Final but with just a lap and a half to go his Orion powered Kyosho came to a halt.

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