First title of Arena 2011 goes to Bloomfield

Making his first appearance at the Arena Offroad Meeting TLR’s Darren Bloomfield has notched up the first title of the weekend at the Italian event with a dominant performance in the Brushless Buggy class.  Topping three of the five 7-minute qualifiers earlier in the day the British ace secured TQ honours ahead of fellow countryman Simon Willets and his Mugen and Italian Xray driver Valerio Bellano.

With the finals decided over three 10-minute legs the rest of the field were no match for Bloomfield and his LRP powered 8ight E.  Winning the opening leg from Willets by almost 13 seconds he secured the title previously held by team-mate Riccardo Rabitti, who is this year just focusing on nitro buggy, with a second win over the Mugen driver in Leg 2.  Despite sewing up the overall win Bloomfield ran the third leg which he duly went on to complete the perfect result. Having a poor third leg Willets took second with Bellano completing the podium.

The provisional overnight Top Qualifier in the premiere nitro Buggy class with one round of Buggy qualifying still to run, Bloomfield will be hoping to continue his form through the rest of the weekend at the Cowboy’s Guest Ranch in Voghera.

Brushless Buggy Overall Result
1. Darren Bloomfield – Losi/LRP – 2 pts
2. Simon Willets – Mugen/Orion – 4
3. Valerio Bellano – Xray/Mamba – 6
4. Walter Floris – Losi/Mamba – 8
5. Stefano Cantoni – Kyosho/Orion – 9
6. Stefano Rabitti – Losi/LRP – 9
7. Federico Sala – Losi/LRP – 10
8. Luca Passarini – Mugen/Hobbywing – 13
9. Alex Zanchettin – Hot Bodies/Tekin – 15

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