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January 7, 2018

Orlowski cruises to A1 win

Michal Orlowski cruised to an easy victory in the opening A-Main of 2WD Buggy at the DHI Cup this morning. The Top Qualifier quickly pulled clear of the field and such was his lead that even with a roll off the corner table table which required his Schumacher to be marshalled he still had more than half a lap advantage at the finish. Behind, Elias Johansson would take second, the young Swedish talent having an equally comfortable gap of the battle for third which would go to David Ronnefalk.

Commenting on his win, reigning champion Orlowski said, ‘we changed the rear camber link to make it easier on new tyres and it was perfect for laps’. The Pole continued, ‘I had a good gap after 3 laps so I just kept my head down and then Elias had a mistake which gave control of the race. I had a small error at the corner table top but it didn’t cost me anything’. Chasing a third 2WD title in a row at the DHI Cup, the EOS Champion will be aiming to get that job done in A2 saying, ‘we will run the same car for A2 and see what we can do’.

‘Pretty good but I had two mistakes’, was how Johansson summed up A1. The Associated driver said while new tyres had made the car nervous to drive at the start, he put his two mistakes down to ‘driver error’. Having made no changes to his car over the weekend he has no plans to start changing anything now adding he expects A2 to be better due to the fact the tyres are now broken in.

Qualifying only 8th for 2WD, David Ronnefalk was happy to get third. He said, ‘I threw up four times during the night so I didn’t have any expectations for the race. I wasn’t even sure I would be able to drive. I just wanted to finish’. The HB Racing driver said his changes to his car since qualifying had given him more speed and ‘carnage’ in the race allowed him to gain some early places. Battling with third place qualifier Jesper Rasmussen he would pass the Dane only to make a mistake but was be able to get the position back by the finish.

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